HNC Diploma in Health and Social Care
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BTEC Level 4 HNC Diploma in Health and Social Care andBTEC Level 5 HND Diploma in Health and Social CareUnit 7: Social Policy andUnit 19: Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Care Portfolio
Task One Portfolio section 1 and 2Section 11A An introduction to a historical or contemporary issue or policy relevant to health and social care.SP 1.1) For the purposes of this assignment you need to investigate the Equality Act 2010In this section you are asked to briefly describe the Act in order to put the rest of the portfolio into context.i.Explain briefly what the Act is and why is it relevant to health and social care? (Ensure you list the nine protective characteristics)The Equality Act 2010, protects legally people from the workplace discrimination and society in wider. It has substituted the laws based on anti discrimination, which makes easier to understand and strengthen the protection in certain other cases. The act gives protection to the disabled people against the discrimination and harassment while using services and buying goods, which incorporate going at leisure, centres, using the public transportation or eating in the restaurants. It renders protection to those who are getting care and the workers which help them from being treated unfairly because of the characteristics which are protected under legislation. ii.Choose one of the nine protected characteristics and find a current issue on this characteristic based on either a health or social care perspective
One of the important nine protected characteristics under Equality Act 2010 is the Disability. The issue involved from the health care perspective that over a billion number of people have been estimated who are living in the in some other forms of disabilities. Between 111 million and 200 million, 15 years and older suffer from difficulties while functioning. The rates of disability is as well increasing due to the increase of the ageing population. It results to the poor health and the extensive needs of the health care. 1BHow was the Equality Act 2010 formed and how does this Act when presented in the media, give rise to issues of public concern? (SP 2.1, M1) (CI 1.1)You have been given a contemporary policy that has featured in the media making it a concern to the public. In this section you are asked to look at the various ways in which policies such as this come to the attention of the public and how reliable the sources of the information are. Complete your answer to the questions in the boxes below ensuring that you reference any sources you have used to support your discussion and complete a bibliography at the end of the section. i. Explain the process involved in the formulation of the Equality Act 2010 and the influences of different ideologies before it became an Act of Parliament. (You need to begin your explanation analysing the process of how a bill becomes an Act of parliament)The Equality Act 2010 is regarded as the Act of the Parliament of UK. The labour party of UK have incorporated a commitment in the Bill of Equality in the election of 2005. The Discrimination Law Review have been established in the year 2005 in order to develop the legislation and this was led by the Equalities Office of Government. The review was taken into consideration the searches of the Equalities Review Panel which was reported in the month of February, 2007. The act is focused to bring simplification by bringing together the anti discrimination legislation. The Equality Act 2010 has substituted the Act of Equal Pay 1970, Sex Discrimination Act 1975, Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the Employment Equality Regulations 2006. The bill was being drafted under the guidance of Harriet Harman, the bill is regarded as the biggest idea of Labour for the 11 years. It is the duty of the public sector to close the space between the poor and the rich which would tackle the divide of the class which no other policy ever had. It is driven by the ideology of
socialism. ii. Explain in more detail what this Act sets out to achieve and why it came about?The Equality Act 2010 has set out to achieve by giving legal protection to people from discrimination in the workplace. It has replaced the previously passed laws based on anti discrimination with a single act. It has set out to achieve by making the law easier in order to strengthening and rendering protection to certain situations. By replacing the other discrimination acts, it focussed on the framework of harassment, work education and society. It changed the definition of the reassignments of gender, giving protection to people who fall under the protected characteristics of the Act. The Act applies the detriment model to protect the disabled people, extending the means of protection against the harassment of the employees who are disabled in nature. iii.Using the particular characteristic you have chosen, evaluate how this is affected by the Equality ActThe Equality Act has extended its protection against the Indirect means of discrimination against disability; it has replaced the protection under the erstwhile legislation, which was lost due to legal judgement. The act provides the important detrimental model to the protection of victimization by aligning it with the law of employment. The act extended its protection against the harassment of the employees who are disabled. However, the act is making more difficult for the employees to be unfairly chosen while applying for the jobs, through the method ofrestriction enabling the employers can ask for the work applicants about their health and disability.
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