Promoting Equality and Diversity in an Organization

Equality and Diversity;
Inclusive Practice

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
A. Identify and explain 9 categories with regards to equality and diversity.........................4
B. Define diversity..................................................................................................................5
C. Why is important to promote equality and diversity?........................................................5
D Analyse the ways to promote equality and value diversity................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
A. What are the factors affecting learning? Review their impact on learning.......................6
B. Review the impacts of different abilities on learning........................................................6
C. Barriers to equality and diversity.......................................................................................7
D. Recommend what can be done to remove barriers within company.................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
A. Summarise the policy and regulatory framework relating to equality and diversity.........8
B. Influences on organisational policies and own practices due to legislations.....................9
C. Explain how working with other agencies can promote diversity.....................................9
D. Reflect on how the promotion of equality and diversity can protect learners from risk to
harm......................................................................................................................................10
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
A. Why it is important to promote an inclusive learning environment................................11
B. Summarise your own role & responsibility in promoting equality and diversity............11
C. Analyse the way to promote inclusion.............................................................................11
D. Actions that can be taken to value individual learners and good practices in providing
individual learners................................................................................................................12
TASK 5..........................................................................................................................................13
A. Explain relationship between own role and role of other professional involved in inclusive
practice.................................................................................................................................13
B. Determine the points of referral to meet the individual needs of learners.......................13
C. What are the strategies that you use to liaise with professionals involved?....................14
TASK 6..........................................................................................................................................14
A. Demonstrate how equality and diversity will promoted by lesson plan..........................14

B. Define organisational culture...........................................................................................14
C. Give examples of own behaviour impacted negatively and positively on organisational
culture...................................................................................................................................15
TASK 7..........................................................................................................................................15
Self-evaluation......................................................................................................................15
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Equality make sure that everyone is getting equal opportunity & not treated differently based
on their characteristics while diversity refers to differentiation in between people or group of
people &placed a positive value on those difference (Ng and Stamper, 2018). The following
report is based equality and diversity within an organisation in context of UK along with
inclusive practices. Which is a teaching approach that recognise difference between professionals
and learners to ensure that all have opportunity to access educational content & participate fully
in learning. This assignment covers discussion about how to promote equality & diversity with
influencing factors. Further, role & responsibility of inclusive practice will cover.
TASK 1
A. Identify and explain 9 categories with regards to equality and diversity.
Age- It refers to a person belonging to a particular age group that can be either of same age
or can be range of ages.
Gender- Gender diversity is the fair representation of individual of different genders or
equitable ratio of men and women. Also includes people of non-binary genders. Whereas gender
equality means equal outcome for both men and women along with diverse gender.
Disability- It Means when someone have physical or mental impairment while
impairments tends to substantial & long term adverse effect on ability of person to carry out day
to day normal activities.
Pregnancy and maternity- Pregnancy refers to a women who are pregnant and maternity
refers to the period of 26 weeks after birth.
Race- It implies to a protected characteristics that means race, colour, nationality and
ethnic origin of an individual
Religion- It is a protected characteristics that means denomination of religion and also
applicable to those who have not any religion.
Sexual orientation- It is personal rescue characteristic that are associate with person’ sexual
orientation towards people.
Marriage & Civil partnership- It tends to protected characteristics related with heterosexual
couple who are legally married and same sex couple who have entered into civil partnership or