Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Understanding the Concepts and Importance

UNIT 5 Equality, diversity and inclusion
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

UNIT 5 Equality, diversity and inclusion
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