Geographical barrier * Some individuals live near health, social care and early years services and others may live some distance away. For those individuals who do not live near the services they may find that the buses in the area do not run at a convenient time to get to an appointment. A patient may need to have specialist treatment which is many miles away and finds it difficult to get there. Finding it difficult to travel to the services because of distance is a geographical barrier. Some individuals may find that due to their mobility problem they cannot walk a short distance to the health, social care and early years services.
Gautreaux Vs Cha was a lawsuit that was made for public housing segregation. It was filed by Dorothy Gautreaux in 1969 through federal court and the case went on although she was dead. “The Chicago Housing Authority and HUD had violated the US constitution which states that everyone is equal.” The purpose was to develop a law that would help all race, the riches and the poor to integrate. HUD and CHA created a plan that specifically had African- Americans to mobilize in to the white areas surrounding the city. In order to relocate 7100 families, it took well over 20 years.
1.4 Common barriers to integrated working and multi agency working are :- Professionals from different backgrounds using specific terms or jargon that are not familiar to or understood by other professionals. Professionals trained to work in very different ways finding it difficult to work together. Professionals from different backgrounds having differing priorities. Professionals not accustomed to sharing their expertise, views or findings and having them questioned by other professionals. Professionals not accustomed to taking the expertise, views or findings of others into consideration.
They may non weight bearing on affected leg and may be reliant on walking aids such as crutches or zimmer frames. Arthritis will also make it hard for a patient to move around as the joints will stiffen, especially after sitting for long periods of time. A Parkinsons sufferer will be unsteady on their feet and easily become off balance reducing the amount the person can walk, also their proprioception is affected and they will bump into objects. Also a person with limited or no sight will find mobility difficult as they may be limited to a very small area which they know well to move about in. Any health condition which affects balance such as inner ear problems will affect mobility as balance is very important to mobility.
Your location may limit your access to education because if you live in rural or remote areas, you may have a less chance of being able to access education. This is because you may have to worry about transport or the duration of travel to and from your place of education. Dissability is another factor that may limit a person access to education. A disabled person is someone who has a lack of ability to perform an activity within the range considered normal. A disabled person may lack access to education because the place of education may not have the support or facilities that a disabled person may need to be sufficiently educated.
They are capable of fully participating in community life without having to depend on someone without a disability. It is society that segregates them because they look different or out of the ordinary. Although they may look different on the outside does not mean they do not have the same feelings on the inside. Having people constantly thinking they need help to fulfill basic tasks can be degrading. People with a disability may not have as easy of a time performing simple tasks, but that simply means it requires patience, which most people without disabilities do not contain.
Although this rule of age was mandatory, in 1978 the ADEA was amended not only for the purpose of providing protection for individuals 40 and older and 65 and younger, but the ADEAgranted older individuals more time. The law added five more years, which gave older individuals until the age of 70 years old. Employerswere given the right to deny applicants if they had a valid reason why potential applicants could not perform the required job duties. AGE DISCRIMINATIONEMPLOYMENT ACT OF 1967 4 According to Williams (1978), “Hundreds and thousands not yet old, not yet voluntarily retired, find themselves jobless because of arbitrary age discrimination. Despite our present low rate of unemployment.
2) What problem was that policy originally designed to address? The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA 2000) was created to protect victims of trafficking and to ensure just and effective punishment of the traffickers. In the year 2000, congress found that each year, over 700,000 women and children were trafficked across the world and at least 50,000 of those were trafficked into the United States (Desyllas, 2000). The 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States” (U.S. Constitution, Amendment 13). The fundamental principle of abolishing slavery that was underlined in the U.S. Constitution was considered the foundational concept of establishing the U.S. Human Trafficking policy (Roby, Turley, & Cloward, 2008).
A section of the Act required schools to work to overcome language barriers that interfered with language-minority students’ learning (Crawford, 1989). Also, in 1975, Congress amended the Voting Rights Act to require bilingual ballots in jurisdictions where language minorities exceeded 5% of the population and where illiteracy rates exceeded national norms (Lessow-Hurley, 1990). Throughout the Reagan presidency, Secretary of Education, William J. Bennett, was a vocal antagonist of bilingual education. He made public speeches attacking the Bilingual Education Act, and in 1985, he appointed antagonists of bilingual education to the National Advisory and Coordinating Council on Bilingual
First, Section 501 prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in themfederal government and requires affirmative action in the hiring of people with disabilities by government agencies (Fleischer; Zames 2011). secondly, Section 502 establishes the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board and gives the board authority to enforce the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968