Impact of unconscious bias, prejudice and discrimination on individuals, victims & perpetrators

Legislation in Support of
Equality and Diversity

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
P3 Range of legislation to apply equality, diversity and fair treatment in public services.........1
P4 Importance of understanding unconscious bias, prejudice and discriminatory behaviour in
public services.............................................................................................................................2
M1 Role of advisory services in relation to equality, diversity and fair treatment in public
service employment....................................................................................................................2
D1 Impact of unconscious bias, prejudice and discrimination on individuals, victims &
perpetrators..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Legislation refers to overall legal acts and laws of particular country which are required
to be followed by every citizen in proper manner. Disobeying of legislation by any person in the
nation is considered as a criminal offence and victim should face punishment for the same which
is decided by government authorities (Thompson, 2016). The present report will focus on
legislation to implement equality, diversity and fair treatment along with understanding
unconscious bias, prejudice & discriminatory behaviour in public services.
MAIN BODY
P3 Range of legislation to apply equality, diversity and fair treatment in public services
Equality can be described as distribute rights, services facilitates and opportunities to
citizens in equal manner. It is necessary to implement factor of fairness sin the nation so that
very person get appropriate services or benefits equally. However, the diversity can be explained
as difference between people as per their culture, abilities, education, thoughts etc. every
individual has their now religion, caste, gender, skills, family background, thoughts, capabilities
interest and perceptions which are usually not matched with other people. It is necessary to
establish factor of equality so that each citizen of country will get an equal benefits, opportunities
and other facilities. In addition to this, government rules and regulations are capable to organise
equality and fair treatment of public services among citizens of the nation.
At the other hand, there are several legislations which were established by government in
order to maintain fairness and equality among diverse population in order to gain overall
development successfully. To implement equality, government authorities apply Equality Act,
2010 which is an act of Parliament of UK by combining certain regulation of anti- discrimination
to provide equal benefits to people. However, it consists Equal pay act 1970, Sex determination
act 1975, Race relations act 1976, Disability discrimination act 1995 and three major statutory
instruments for protecting discrimination in employment (Greene and Kirton, 2015). There are
several legitimisation and regulations which are favourable to implement fairness in treatment
and these are given below. Initially, employment equality in terms of gender regulations 2006 i.e.
Sex determination act 1975 which states that organisations will never behave partial with male
and female employees while providing incentives, compensation and other beneficial
opportunities. Secondly, Regulations 2005 Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 state that it is
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