Anti Discriminatory Practices

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In this assignment I will be discussing the difficulties that may arise when implementing anti discriminatory practice in health and social care settings. There are many difficulties that can arise when implementing anti discriminatory practice in health and social care settings, this include; 1. If care providers don’t understand the importance of promoting anti-discriminatory practice. 2. Care providers beliefs and values 3. Failing to put the service users at the heart of service provision 4. Care provider not committing to the care value base 5. Stereotyping and assumptions 6. Not respecting service users rights, choices and wellbeing 7. Limited funding 8. Cultural or religious values may also conflict with the right to be protected…show more content…
The service provider may have a strong cultural background or perhaps none at all. For example the service user might be a religious Muslim and therefore needs to pray five times a day, if the care setting fails to provide the service user a room to pray because he/she is the only Muslim, the service users beliefs are not being respected by the care provider and they are immediately being discriminated against because of their religious beliefs as they not provided with a space to pray. If the service user is unable to speak and understand English and they are not provided with a translator, they are being discriminated against. This might be due to the cost, the setting might not have enough money to ask a translator to…show more content…
If professionals have negative thoughts about their service users, it will affect the way they treat and care for them, This will not promote an anti discriminatory practice because the service user is being treated differently due to the service providers own opinions and views. Past events can affect anti-discriminatory practice being put in place; an example of this could be that if the service provider has experienced something awful in their caring situation of a certain ethnic background, there are chances of the service provider failing to provide an active and caring service to the user. Health and well being can also influence the way the service providers provide care for the service users. An example of this could be that if the patient is gay and the service provider puts their health documents at the bottom because they don’t want to treat a gay person. This will not promote an anti discriminatory practice because the service provider is failing to treat the person because of their sexual orientation. People with disability might been seen as ‘ different’ and service providers can label them as being useless, stupid etc and this will affect the way they care for
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