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Unit 2 | Equality, Diversity and Rights in health and social care Equality, Diversity and Rights in Health and Social Care Equality, diversity and rights are at the core of everything someone will do when working in the health and social care sector. These apply to all individuals working within or using the health and social care sectors. It is a necessity that every person working within health and social care recognise the need to treat every person equally no matter what their culture, disability, age, social class, gender, sexuality, health status, family status, cognitive ability, ethnicity, religion or beliefs (these could be political beliefs, religious beliefs or other ideologies), language or background. Equality According to Oxford Dictionaries Online 2012 the definition of equality is: Noun * 1 [mass noun] the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, or opportunities: an organization aiming to promote racial equality * 2 Mathematics a symbolic expression of the fact that two quantities are equal; an equation. There is legislation in place to enforce equality and protect people from inequality; this is the Equality Act 2010 which replaced the Equality Act 2006. The Equality Act 2006, which received Royal Assent on 16th February 2006, had three main purposes; • To establish the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) • To make discrimination unlawful on the grounds of religion or belief in the provision of goods, facilities and services, the disposal and management of premises, education and the exercise of public functions • To create a duty on the public authorities to promote equality of opportunity between men and women, and to prohibit sex discrimination in the exercise of public functions. The Primary purpose of the Equality Act 2010, which came into force on 1st October 2010, is to protect a wide

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