Good Practice v Discrimination

Protecting and empowering the vulnerable.

On what grounds do people discriminate

• Think in these areas to really understand• Visual-stereotyping• Perception of an AEN-assumption of knowing

what needs that person will have• Prejudice-based on a previous experience we

have already decided how ‘it’ will go next time we communicate or deal with that same person.

Labelling the types of discrimination

• Who?• Nationality• Old people• Young people• Women or men• Physically or mentally

impaired • Size

• Race• Sexual orientation• Life choices• Appearance• Religion• Gender reassignment

Direct Discrimination

Direct discrimination

Direct discrimination happens when an employer treats an employee less favourably because of, for

example, their gender or race. (So it would be direct discrimination if a driving job was only open

to male applicants).

Indirect discrimination is when a condition that

disadvantages one group of people more than another is applied to a job. For example, saying that applicants for a job must be clean shaven put members of some

religious groups at a disadvantage.

However the law does allow employers to discriminate indirectly if they can show a good reason for having the condition. For example, the condition that applicants

must be clean shaven might be justified if the job involved handling food and it could be shown that

having a beard or moustache was a genuine hygiene risk.

Just say No!

Equal OpportunitiesSex DiscriminationAnti-harassment Disability Discrimination ActChildren ActHuman Rights Act

Disability Discrimination Act 1995

It is unlawful for an employer to treat people with

disabilities less favourably than someone else because of their disabilities and this applies to recruitment,

training promotion and dismissal. Employers have a duty to make reasonable adjustments to working

conditions to accommodate a disability.

The act was updated in 2005 to extend the definition of disability to include cancer, HIV infection, multiple sclerosis and some mental heath problems such as

depression, dementia, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia and learning disabilities.

Area of Social Work we haven’t really considered!Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974

Where a person who has been convicted of an offence and has served a custodial sentence, after a period of between 5 and 10 years, he/she must be treated as if the offence had never been

committed. The candidate is not obliged to reveal any such

sentence to a prospective employer with the exception of certain professions including accountant, lawyers, teachers, medical professionals and those who work with persons under 18 who can be asked to disclose

previous offences. Custodial sentences of over two and a half years are never considered spent.

Ideas for good planning?

Ideas for good practice?