Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Understanding the Concepts and Importance

This article explains the concepts of equality, diversity and inclusion and their importance in creating a fair and impartial environment. It also discusses the need to address discrimination, the legislation related to it, the role of multi-agency teams, and ways to remove barriers to learning for pupils with communication and interaction difficulties.

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What is equality, diversity and inclusion? Explain in your own words.
Equality tend to present a process of ensuring and leading out effective
practises and programmes that tend to support creation of an impartial and fair
environment which provide equal possible outcomes as well as equal growing
opportunity and rights to all individuals irrespective of any physical characteristics
(Singletary Walker and et. al., 2019). Beside this, the concept of diversity is
associated with the presence of differences within a given setting in form of people
who are coming from a diverse culture, backgrounds, age, genders, religion and
ethnicity (Chow, 2018). Apart from this, the concept of the inclusion tends to reflects
and present about the practises that ensures that all the people and individuals must
have and feel a sense of belongingness within their workplace (Dahanayake and et.
al, 2018).
Why is it important to address discrimination?
The discrimination tends to present a situation where some people and
individuals are treated in an unfair manner because they are belonging to some
particular culture, race, religion, age, gender, etc. This discriminatory way of
behaviour tends to creates a negative impact and hampers the motivation and self-
confidence of individuals and especially the employees at workplace (Kawahata,
2020). Thus, it is necessary and important that proper steps must be taken to
prevent and reduce the happening of discrimination to anyone. Beside this, it is
important to address discrimination as it helps in protecting the rights and wellbeing
of all individuals since everyone deserves to access the same rights and have the
same opportunities in life. Along with this, it is also important to address
discrimination as commitment and lead out a discrimination-free environment is
conducive to better morale, greater cohesiveness and higher production
(Cunningham, 2019).
Identify two areas of legislation in relation to equality and diversity and
state the basic principles of each.
the two main areas of the legislation in relation to equality and diversity along
with their basic principles are stated as below:
 Equality act, 2010- the main provisions of the equality act, 2010 comprises of
the fact that it unlawful to discriminate against someone on the grounds of
any of these characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or
civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion/belief, sex (gender)
and sexual orientation. Thus, this act legally protects the people and

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individuals from all sort of discrimination at their workplace and even within
the wider society (Ghosh, 2020).
 The human rights act, 1998- this act tend to focus and emphasis on the
defending the protecting the rights of people within UK and emphasising in
treating everyone equally with a sense of fairness, dignity and respect. Beside
this, this cat also supports equal rights in term of rights to education, freedom
of expression, non-discrimination and protection of property (Dawson, 2020).
What is a multi-agency team? Describe why multi-agency teams are
important and their role in an education setting.
A multi-agency team comprises of a diverse group of professionals and individuals
who are working together and tend to be aim at providing and leading out delivery of
a person centred and coordinated care along with leading proper support for the
person and individuals who need to have and required with any sort of care needs. It
has been seen and analysed that the multi-agency teams are important and their
role in an education setting as it tend to effectively providing a seamless and
effective response for all the individuals and students who tend to have a multiple
and complex needs through facilitating and supporting a person centred services
(Isotalus and Kakkuri-Knuuttila, 2018). Apart from this, the need and importance of
the multi-agency team ad their role in education setting can be derived and seen
from the fact that multi agency team set out a good co-ordination along with
effective co-operation and collaboration in order to produce efficient educational
strategy that is based on a multi-agency working. Thus, it tend to add value for
educational settings and also the implication of multi-agency tem increases the
organizations skills and capacity level to improve and effectively meet the specific
and centralised need of children and young people to have effective educational
setting for all (Finkel, Sharp and Sweeney, 2019).
Identify some of the different professionals who make up a multi-agency
team.
The different professional who are set and involved to make a multi-agency
team comprises of the teachers, health staff, drug and alcohol services, mental
health services, housing, probation, etc. Further, term multiprofessional is also tend
to be used to denote the high level of the cooperation prevailing within the health
professionals from three or more different health professions. Apart from this, the
main commitment and purpose of the multi team within all professional and areas
tend to understand the risks and needs from all perspectives, and to take collective

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responsibility to help and protect all involved (Booker and et. al., 2021). Apart from
this, it has been seen and observed that the teasing and education professional is
also a sector that includes a multi-agency team. Different students tend to have
different learning needs and potential along with ensuring effective management of
diverse students is required in education sector. Thus, within an education sector
and firm it is vital and essentially required to have a multi agency team to meet and
cater needs and specific expectation of all child.
In your own words, describe what is meant by a reasonable adjustment.
The concept of the reasonable adjustment tends to be linked and associated
with the change that needs and most be made in order to effectively remove,
eliminate or reduce all the key disadvantage that are tend to be related with the any
form of the employee’s disability at the time when they are doing their job. Further,
based on the concept of the equality, the reasonable adjustment also tend to
comprises of effectively recognising and meeting the maximum level of the equality
for disabled people by the means of making effective change in the way that
employment is structured. Thus, the reasonable adjustment tend to comprises of
removing the all sort of the physical barriers along with providing extra support for a
disabled worker or job applicant (Brewis, 2019).
Explain the medical and social model of disability.
It has been seen that the social model of the disability tend to focus and
emphasis on the way of viewing the disability similar as the world and developed by
the disable people, Thus, the social model of the disability is the one that is caused
and reflected by the way society is organised along with the existence and presence
of the impairment and differences (Broadbridge and Fielden, 2018). On the other
hand, the medical model and phenomenon of the disability is the one that says and
emphasis that the people are disabled by their impairments or differences and tend
to look out what is 'wrong' with the person and not what the person needs. Thus, the
medical model of disability focus on the biopsychosocial model and aim at assessing
a patient's problems and matching them to the diagnostic construct using pattern
recognition of clinical features (van Duyvenbode 2020). Therefore, an analysis can
be made that social model of disability is the one that emphasis in the way the
society look outs at disabled while medical model focuses it on as a biopsychosocial
model.

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Describe some of the ways in which you can build effective working
relationships with fellow professionals connected to the school where you
work.
The steps and ways that can be adopted to build effective working
relationships with fellow professionals connected to the school where you work
comprises and includes of forming out some sort of birthday or other celebration
committee to effectively persuading to the colleagues along with effectively striving
the understanding. Beside this sharing and supporting improve underdoing by the
way of discussion positive information and sharing better relationship by coming up
at social events supports effective working relationships with fellow professionals
connected to the school where you work (Voola, Ray and Voola, 2021). It has been
seen and reviewed that emphasising on being Trustworthy along with effective
Listen and Ask Questions tend to Support Your Colleagues and leads an effective
ways in which you can build effective working relationships with fellow professionals
connected to the school where you work. Apart from this, setting out Respect
Boundaries and being Real along with having regural Celebrate are also some ways
in which you can build effective working relationships with fellow professionals
connected to the school where you work.
Identify how you can remove barriers to learning amongst pupils with
communication and interaction difficulties.
It has been seen and analysed that the making use of the clear visual support
like by the way of making use of some proper gesture or pictures when giving and
sharing information with them tend to supports an effective way to remove barriers
to learning amongst pupils with communication and interaction difficulties. Beside
this, it has been seen that some individuals also need extra time to process
information who are having communication and interaction difficult thus it is
essential to leave a pause if not getting an immediately respond is also an effective
way to remove barriers to learning amongst pupils with communication and
interaction difficulties (Sepulveda, Paladin and Rawson, 2018). Further, it has been
also seen and reviewed that to remove barriers to learning amongst pupils with
communication and interaction difficulties making use of some hand signals and
along with having proper pause while communicating support’s an effective manner
to share and communicate required information in more effective manner.
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