Btec Health and Social Care Unit 2 Equality, Diversity and Rights P5 M3 D2

3844 Words16 Pages
Btec Level 3 90 Credit Diploma in Health and Social Care Unit 2: Promoting Anti-discriminatory Practice Introduction In this assignment I will be discussing how an anti-discriminatory practise can be promoted within a care home. I will also be assessing the difficulties which may arise when promoting an anti-discriminatory practise along with the solutions to them. Anti-discriminatory practise This is where employees within a care setting work together to provide their service users and colleagues with an environment which is discrimination free. This includes; race, gender, age, sexual orientation, class and disability. Not only is the setting free of discrimination but equality and fair treatment to everyone is promoted. It is very important within health and social care because the service users will often be vulnerable meaning they are more likely to be a victim of discrimination and affect them a lot worse in comparison to those who are not vulnerable. Not only is it their vulnerability that puts them at more risk of harm and abuse but also because they are putting their lives and care in the hands of others and are trusting them to provide a good standard of service to help them. This is about making your care setting completely equal and giving everyone fair treatment. It includes making sure discrimination doesn’t happen but also promoting anti-discrimination. For example, you can treat everyone equal but you need to promote this by doing things such as having policies in place to show people that you cannot get away with discrimination because it is not right, or by providing staff training on how they should act with patients to ensure they are providing an anti-discriminatory practise. For example if someone in a care home has a problem with speaking clearly due to her stroke, instead of just accepting this and not speaking to her because they

More about Btec Health and Social Care Unit 2 Equality, Diversity and Rights P5 M3 D2

Open Document