Equality and Diversity

This document explores the concepts of equality and diversity, their importance in society, and the impact of policies and legislation on public service workers. It discusses the case of Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager who was murdered in a racially motivated attack, and how his case led to cultural changes and reforms in the law. The document also highlights the role of advisory services in promoting equality, diversity, and fair treatment in public services.

Equality and
Diversity

Table of Contents
TASK 1...............................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................3
Key Concepts.................................................................................................................3
Legislation......................................................................................................................4
Advisory Services...........................................................................................................5
The Investigation............................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..................................................................................................................9
TASK 2.............................................................................................................................10
INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................10
Policy, legislation and the role of trade unions............................................................10
Impact such policies have on your public service colleagues.....................................12
Argue why equality, diversity and fair treatment are crucial in the workplace and the
benefits this can bring to public service workers.........................................................12
Evaluate whether policies and legislation implemented have enabled an equal,
diverse and fair public service......................................................................................12
CONCLUSION.................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES................................................................................................................14

TASK 1
INTRODUCTION
Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager from Plumstead, southeast London
was murdered in a racially motivated attack. He was murdered while waiting for the bus
in Well Hall, Eltham. This case became very popular and attracted attention of media,
public debate along with creating widespread controversy. Fallout of this case included
cultural changes of attitude on racism and the police, and to law and police practice. In
initial investigation of the case five suspects were arrested but not charged. In 2012 two
suspects were found guilty for the murder of Lawrence. The crime was described as
terrible and evil crime by the judge.
Key Concepts
Equality and Diversity
Equality can be described as a state in which all people within a society and in
different isolated groups are given equal treatment in all respects and have same status
within all respects of the society (Klarsfeld and et.al., 2016). This mainly involve civil
rights, freedom of speech, Property rights and equal access to certain goods and
services in society. This also includes health equality and economic equality and other
social security within a society. Social equality includes absence of legal enforcement in
social class and regulations that create boundaries for certain cast within society.
Absence of discrimination motivated by in alienable part of person’s identity is also
included in social equality. Concerned with the quality opportunities is a key term in
which it is included that on the basis of gender atomicity age origin cast income race
conviction opinion and disability cannot be the reason for unequal opportunities that
cannot be justified. Example of Stephen Lawrence is very suitable in this case in which
he was treated different and it is considered as unequal part in society on the basis of
his race. This suggest that equality include that all people in society regardless of their
race are authorised to access all the possibilities and services of the society.

Diversity refers to a state in which one or more different social groups exist within
a society. This means that more than one gender, race, culture, caste and people from
different financial status are there in society.
Based on diversity equality is required that all these different types of groups and
people included in society has equal access to all opportunities and goods and services
in a society (Modood, 2016). Failure of this is the case of Stephen Lawrence murder.
These terms in case of Stephen Lawrence are important because he was
murdered only on the grounds of racial decimation and was not subject to anything
other than that. However the act was brutal and was treated with many other act and
legislations yet this is important to consider. It is important that people are educated
about equality and diversity because in absence of that people discriminate with those
who are different from them and many times end result is case like Stephen Lawrence.
Legislation
Legislation play important role in protection of equality within society. In order to
protect equality several legislations have been developed. Among which major
legislations are Sex Discrimination Act 1975, Race Relation Act 1976, Disability
Discrimination Act and Equality Act, 2010 (Holohan, 2017). However, the case of
Stephen Lawrence was based on racial discrimination and this is why race relation act
can be considered important in this case.
This act was created to prevent discrimination on the racial ground. Elements that have
been covered in this act are race, color, nationality, ethnic and national origin in the
fields of employment, in provision of goods and services and in education and oublic
functions.
One of the major changes took place in legislation was against the rule of double
jeopardy in common law. This states that once acquitted an accused person could not
be tried a second time for the same crime. The modification in this involved that it
should be repealed in murder cases and it should be possible to subject an acquitted
murder suspect to a second trial if fresh and viable new evidence are found later.

As a result of this case some recommendations was also implemented in criminal
justice act 2003 (Sands-O’Connor, 2017). The changes implemented in this opened
murder and certain other serious crimes such as manslaughter, kidnapping, rape,
armed robbery and other drug crimes to a second prosecution, regardless of when the
crime was committed. However it included certain conditions such as the retrial must be
approved by the Director of Public Prosecutions and the court of appeal must agree to
quash old and original acquittal because new evidence are there.
Advisory Services
Concerned with public services Metropolitan Police and members were found
guilty of mishandling of case of Stephen Lawrence. Concerned with this a formal
complaint was also registered by family of Stephan Lawrence. As a result Ben Bullock,
Detective Inspector from Metropolitan Police Service was found guilty and was made to
face disciplinary charges for neglect of duty (Herrera and et.al., 2019). Advisory
services are concerned with services that provide support to undertaking and overcome
weaknesses in specific area. The area concerned with this is legal area in which
Metropolitan Police was required to get assistance from advisory services concerned
with equality, diversity and fair treatment. Role of this is as follows-
To conduct detailed analysis and investigation of matters in context of law
This means that they need to undertake a detailed investigation regarding
different laws and how they affect services of Metropolitan Police.
Concerned with this case advisory services requires to make detailed
investigation about equality, diversity and fair treatment and what is their role in this
case. Advisory needs to identify different aspects and what actions to take according to
different elements of the law relation with equality, diversity and fair treatment ( Knuth
and Knierim, 2016). This also helps in ensuring that people of Metropolitan Police have
adequate knowledge regarding legal aspects of the equality, diversity and fair treatment.
Drafting legal issues and opinions

This is another role that is played by advisory services in which legal issues and
opinions are drafted by the advisors.
This means on the basis of findings and investigation documents are drafted (Prager,
Creaney and Lorenzo-Arribas, 2017). This also creates briefing documents which is
used for reference in future. Metropolitan Police can get assistance on equality, diversity
and fair treatment. This will enable Metropolitan Police to take action accordingly to
regulations.
This also enables them to treat people fairly and ensure equality in their treatment.
To conduct legal research
This means that in order to provide right and adequate advice and assistance to
they need to conduct extensive research. This will require that advisory services to use
different resources and relevant material. Advisory services also play important role in
doing so in public services as they possess knowledge of past similar cases and what
were different repercussions of the case. Advisory services and people involved in such
services have knowledge and access to knowledge regarding similar previous events
and this is the reason that they can provide correct knowledge and assistance to
Metropolitan Police regarding equality, diversity and fair treatment.
Along with this they can also advice Metropolitan Police concerned with what
kind of treatment they should undertake which is based on equality, diversity and fair
treatment (Coutts, Koutsouris and Davis, 2019). They can also advise them about
treatment and ways because of which they can be considered to have behaved and
treated the victim unequally and less favorably than others which can be considered as
unfair treatment.
These are some of the roles that are played by advisory services to diversify public
service workers in context of equality, diversity and fair treatment.
The Investigation
Case of Stephen Lawrence murder created foundation for many changes in laws
and regulations. This case was based on racially motivated attic only Lawrence and

death of Lawrence became a reason for cultural changes of attitude on racism and
police. This case started on 22nd April 1993 on the day Stephen Lawrence was
murdered by group of people. Initial investigation of this case identify the five suspects
for the murder and they were arrested however they were not charged. Initial
investigation it was found that Lawrence was murdered because he was black
(Kushner, 2017). Hanging of the case by police and Crown prosecution services was
affected by the issue of Race. Concerned with this case a public in enquiry in 1998
examined original Metropolitan police service investigation and concluded that the force
behind the Murder Was institutionally racist. This became the basis for changes in the
rules of double Jeopardy that in Murder cases new and compelling evidences should be
considered for retrial and this was affected in 2005 enactment of the criminal justice Act
2003. Followed by this as the case continued for around 10 years in 2011 after a further
review and changes in double Jeopardy it was announced that to suspect word to stand
for trial for the murder of Stephen Lawrence in light of new evidence against them.
However suspect word Finally Found guilty for murder of Stephen Lawrence.
Investigation of case of Stephen Lawrence took long time of around10 years after which
murderers were found guilty. The murder took place in 1993 and murderers were
punished in 2012. The investigation of the case started with three witnesses at the bus
stop where Stefan was murdered among which one witness Brooks was with Stephen.
The witness is said in a statement that there were a group of 5 to 6 people do they were
not able to identify the suspects. Followed by the murder of Stephen Evil resident come
forward to provide names of the suspects and several anonymous letters were found by
Metropolitan police in which way name a gang as my 5 main expect of Stephen’s
Murder (Kushner, 2017). The reason because of which people were naming the suspect
was that the gang was involved in resist knife attacks around the area where Stefan
was killed. Before murder of Stephen several cases of racist attack work carried out by
this gang. In further investigation police identified and arrested members of the gang but
neither of the member was charged against murder of Stefan the reason being
insufficient evidences against members of the gang. However family of Lawrence
believe that new evidence has been found. The members of the gang were identified
and arrested in 1993 and in 1994 family of Lawrence initiated private prosecution

against initial two suspects of Murder. Investigation in case of Stephen Lawrence also
involved police corruption and mishandling of case and investigation (Sands-O’Connor,
2017). The allegations were letter proved to be e right and detective inspector of the
case was ordered to face disciplinary charges on the basis of neglect of Duty. However
the case ended with some changes in law and regulations and suspect found guilty
were punished accordingly.
CONCLUSION
Diversity in wider society is very normal and it create a larger society and
however equality creates it a better place that everyone in the society can live in. the
case of Stephen Lawrence was example when inequality exist and equality is not
respected. The case involved murder of Stephan Lawrence by a gang on the ground of
racist attack. The murderes were later found guilty and were punished accordingly.
However this case became reason for debates and discussion and encouraged
changes in regulations and systems.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Coutts, J., Koutsouris, A. and Davis, K., 2019. Evaluation of rural advisory and
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Herrera, B and et.al., 2019. Advisory services and farm-level sustainability profiles: an
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Holohan, S., 2017. The search for justice in a media age: reading Stephen Lawrence
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TASK 2
INTRODUCTION
Equality and diversity are two states in which equality can be defined as a state
in organisation and society where all members of the society are authorised to equal
access to opportunities and they are treated equally. This study in concerned with
identifying and understanding role of equality and diversity and fair treatment within
public service organisation. Police service organisation contextualised in this is
Metropolitan Police.
Policy, legislation and the role of trade unions
Metropolitan Police organisation includes members working in police
forces. Metropolitan Police employs an effective strategy in which 30% officers and 57%
staff is female. This reflects that organisation applies effective practices for the equality
and diversity (Stergioulis, 2018). In order to do so commissioner of police of Metropolis
considers that they want it to be a more attractive place for work for people of all
characteristics and to do so they believe in championing the differences and
encouraging to think freely and express themselves in mission of the organisation.
policy for equality involve-
Make the Met an organisation that reflects the city we serve
This means that London is considered to be one of the most diverse city having different
people with different background. In context of this-
 More Londoners have been recruiters
 Broadened the range of language and cultural expertise in our officers and staff
 Made our leadership more diverse
Change our culture, behaviour and internal processes

This is concerned with internal organisational culture and behaviour. Concerned with
this it has been identified that people in organisation have positive attitude towards their
colleagues. Concerned with actions taken and policies adopted are-
 Supported our people in career development
 Invested in our future leaders
 Focused on discrimination and grievances
 Learned from people who leave
Remove inequality from our service to the people of London
In order to ensure equality is valued and respected it is important that inequality is
removed. The actions taken and policy adopted to do so are-
 Delivered an outstanding service
 Continued to address hate crime
 Focused more on complaints
 Improved engagement
 Changed the way we stop and search
 Partnership working
Role of Trade Unions
Trade unions play an important role in safeguarding interest of their members.
Being a group at large level enhance their power to ensure that they are not treated
unfairly and exercise all their rights. This role is being effectively played by UNISON. In
this context it states that we protect people and police so that they can protect others. In
this they help and support individual, bargain collectively and campaign so that they can
protect jobs and services.

Impact such policies have on your public service colleagues
Policies of Metropolitan Police are favourable and ensure that every members of
the organisation is treated fairly. In order to do so they have developed strategy and are
also focusing on different policies regarding different aspects of the organisation and
functioning so that they can ensure everyone in organisation is being treated fairly
(Ashe and Nazroo, 2017). In the strategy and policies discussed and identified their
research included that members of the organisation feel positive for their colleagues,
teams and managers and are happy and proud to be working for organisation. This
suggests that policies of the organisation are having positive impact on the public
service colleagues.
Argue why equality, diversity and fair treatment are crucial in the workplace and the
benefits this can bring to public service workers
Equality, diversity and fair treatment is very crucial in organisation and this is
more important when public organisation is Metropolitan Police (Ashe and Nazroo,
2017). The reason being this crucial for public service workers and workers of
Metropolitan Police is that they are responsible for safeguarding and ensuring that
equality rights of the people are safe. In this context it is very important that their own
rights are safe. Diversity is important and crucial because they want workforce to reflect
as London. This means that as London is a diverse city and place they are also willing
to create a workforce which is equally diverse as the city they are working for. Fair
treatment is important this is legally required that everyone is treated fairly and along
with this it is ethical duty of the organisation that members are treated equally ( Roffee,
2017). This will also contribute in ensuring their mission is achieved to make the London
safest city with utmost contribution of all members of the organisation.
Evaluate whether policies and legislation implemented have enabled an equal, diverse
and fair public service
Policies that have been implemented in the Metropolitan Police organisation are
completely fair. The reason for this is their mission to make the London safest city and
creating a workforce which is diversified as the city London and its population.
Concerned with this they are focusing on and have undertaken practices such as More

Londoners have been recruited (Pilkington, 2020). This reflect that their focus is limited
but as they are working for London their focus is centralised on London. Along with they
are working on broad range of cultural and language expertise in officers and staff.
Leadership plays important role in completing and fulfilling objectives and policies they
are focusing on creating diversified leadership. Later focus of the policies and legislation
has been made on the internal culture, behaviour and processes and concerned with
this they are supporting people in career development, investing in future leaders,
focused on grievances related to discrimination and learned from people who left the
organisation. This means that concerned with creating culture of equality, diversity and
fair treatment organisation has adopted a holistic approach in which all different aspects
are considered related to equality and diversity (Kim and Park, 2017). Policies and
practices of focusing on grievance and discrimination suggest that fair treatment is also
being focused. Organisation is also focusing on removing the discrimination. In doing so
they are focusing on working continuously to address hate crime and also adopted
policy of partnership working. Improving engagement of the organisation in different
social activities and focused more on complaints so that they can be timely addressed
and people get their justice.
All these policies and associated and applicable laws suggest that Metropolitan
Police and their policies are effective in addressing equality, diversity and fair treatment
issues (Wang and Seifert, 2020). Along with this implementation and practicing this has
also enabled equality, diversity and fair treatment in the Metropolitan Police
organisation.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above discussion it can be concluded that equality, diversity and
fair treatment which is essential for effective working of an organisation plays important
role in public organisation as well. Public organisation and their working is focused on
public interest and organisation discussed in the report was also completely dedicated
towards public it is important that they adhere to proper policies and regulations to
ensure equality and fair treatment within organisation.

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