Equality and Diversity; Inclusive Practice Report - Unit 18 & 21

This report provides a detailed analysis of equality and diversity within the context of education, specifically focusing on inclusive practices. It begins by defining key terms such as equality and diversity, and then identifies and explains nine categories related to equality and diversity, including age, gender, disability, race, religion, and sexual orientation. The report emphasizes the importance of promoting equality and diversity, highlighting the benefits of a rich social mix and the promotion of best practices. It also analyzes various ways to promote equality and value diversity within an educational setting, such as engaging students and empowering individuals. The report further examines factors affecting learning, including age, financial situation, confidence, and educational background, and reviews the impact of different abilities on learning. It also identifies barriers to equality and diversity, such as language limits and peer pressure, and recommends strategies for removing these barriers. The report then summarises policy and regulatory frameworks, and explores the role of working with other agencies to promote diversity. The report further discusses the importance of promoting an inclusive learning environment and the role and responsibilities of individuals in promoting equality and diversity. Finally, it addresses the relationships between different professionals involved in inclusive practice and strategies for liaising with these professionals, concluding with a self-evaluation of the concepts discussed.

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 civil marriage. Those who are not married and not in civil partnership
are not part of this protected group.
B. Define diversity.
Diversity and equality- Diversity is all about celebration and valuing how all we are
different. It is associated with promotion of human rights and freedom as per some principles
like dignity and respects. Also to recognition the values and considered different backgrounds,
knowledge, skill, experiences of an individual and encourage them to use those different for
developing effective and creative workforce. In this everyone can share their ideas, experiences
and viewpoints to others for enhancing the productivity within organisation. Diversity in race
and culture or religion gives outcome of different perspective and perceptions that is beneficial
for organisation in term of productivity.
C. Why is important to promote equality and diversity?
There are number of benefits to promote about equality and diversity such as richness of
social mix, multi culture society, notion of global village, promoting best practices, addressing
difficulties that hinder language learning & skill development etc. in detail few are as follow:
 Promoting best practices: Diversity bring different and innovative ideas as number of
culture are includes that gives opportunity to company for promoting best practices to full
fill the needs of consumer. This is advantageous in terms of productivity & profitability
(Panicker, Agrawal and Khandelwal, 2018).
 Richness of social mix- Social mix means diversity based on level of income tenure and
social class in a given neighbourhood. Therefore, richness in diversity is directly
proportional to richness in social mix and that is good for UK companies to meet the
desire of consumer.
Addressing difficulties that hinder the language learning and skill development: diversity
gives opportunity to all individual to learn about new and different culture apart from itself and
that is good in context of enhancement of skill, and experience.
D Analyse the ways to promote equality and value diversity.
In an organisation or college it is vital to promote equality and diversity for the
improvement or development of company or students. In this regards there are number of ways
by which it is possible and few are follow:

Engaging students: This is the best way to promote diversity and equality in classroom
as students will engaged towards their work/ project without creating any conflicts in classroom
based on discrimination. It brings positivity across the whole room and that is good for college in
terms of reputation.
Empowering individual: By assigning equal role and responsibilities to all individual of
similar position and skill, lower the discrimination and promotes equality and diversity at
workplace. This is vital for the development and growth of company.
Encouraging team working: By valuing the contribution of team member, respecting
them in order to maintain team sprit promotes equality and diversity at workplace. There are
various methods by which manger of company can encourage its team work like by appraising
their performance in front of higher executives.
TASK 2
INTRODUCTION
In this, there is introduction about the factors which are there able to affect the learning
and their impact in learning which is necessary for the lean in relation to profession. There is also
some recommendation to set off from barrier.
A. What are the factors affecting learning? Review their impact on learning.
 Age- Age is connected with the declination in cognitive abilities that are essential for
maintaining functional independences like learning new skill. When a person becomes
older his/ her learning power gets decreases due to some health problems.
 Financial situation- When financial condition of an individual is not good, it bring
insomnia, weight gain, depression, anxiety etc. and that affects the learning process of an
individual.
 Confidence- This is another factor that also affects the learning power of an individual as
high confidence improves the understanding of a problem (Afful, 2018). If an individual
have high confidence then it will be more critical understanding of a problem. Therefore,
better understanding in teaching and learning activities within classroom enhances the
strength and understanding. It is helpful in performing different activities and function
within business organisation in an appropriate manner. It aids assistance in boosting
career opportunity in future period of time

 Educational background: Higher level of education is linked with the good range of
positive outcome including wellbeing, higher social trust, greater political interest etc.
Therefore, good and high educational background is beneficial for the upcoming
generation as it boost up the learning power and gives motivation to learn more.
B. Review the impacts of different abilities on learning.
 Analytical skills: It refers to the ability to collect and analyse the information, resolve
problem and make decision accordingly. It puts affirmative impacts on ability of learning
as it motivates and encourage person to perform all function effectively and take decision
in better manner.
 Skill development: Improvement in skill impose positive impact on learning as it
increase ability of an individual to perform more complex and difficult task in effective
manner without worrying about uncertainties and risk. Therefore, it is good in term of
development (Gotsis and Grimani, 2017). It is necessary to increase skill and knowledge
that is helpful in performing different activities and function within business organisation
in an appropriate manner. It aids assistance in boosting career opportunity in future
period of time
 Physical disability: It discourage an individual internally as it is a substantial and long
term condition that puts adverse effect on person’s body & that impairs and limits their
physical functioning.
C. Barriers to equality and diversity.
 Limits of language: There are no limits of language across the world and that acts as
barriers for equality and diversity within organisation. The difference between two
cultures reflects perfectly in their language and sometime that bring conflicts in between
employee of an organisation. By engaging individual towards role/ task it can be
overcome. As well as by providing training and development to all employees language
barrier in diversity cab be eliminate.
 Peer pressure: It is direct influence on people by peer or by changing attitude, values,
behaviour an individual can follow their peer or can get encouragement. When peer puts
pressure on individual within company brings negativity and creates disputes among
workforce.

 Lack of self-confidence: Lacking in confidences is the barrier if effective
communication and if is absent then it act as barrier to equality and diversity too. With
relevance to workplace for opting equality and diversity it is important to have effective
communication in between all workforces.
 Discrimination Bullying- Discrimination based on age, gender sex, race etc. within
company creates bias and act as barrier in diversity and equality staff (Lindberg, 2018). It
create hostile environment that lowers the quality, integrity and pace of advancement. So
this is not good for company along with employee in context of productivity and
profitability.
D. Recommend what can be done to remove barriers within company.
 Responding to feedback from students: To maintain equality and diversity in
classroom, teacher can take feedback and ask their viewpoints and then by considering it
gives opportunity to students for feeling significant and accomplishment. This gives
strength to perform well and effectively.
 Encourage team working: To remove equality & diversity barrier, management team
within company can encourage and motivate their employee towards diversity. With this,
effective and healthy working environment can be generate and that increase the overall
efficiency and productivity of employees.
 Sharing good practice: When leaders or manger within organisation share equal & good
practices with all teammates, it bring encouragement and positivity among all to perform
effectively and well for the accomplishment of orginsational goal. Therefore with the
help of this activity it is possible to remove such barrier.
 Sharing experiences and coping strategies: When leaders shares their experiences to
team mates equally and inspire them to do the same for gaining success in life bring
ultimately motivation in all staff and assist company to achieve goal without thinking
about discrimination.

TASK 3
INTRODUCTION
There are different policy and regulation which are present there in equality and diversity
for the effective working. There is discussion that how working with other agencies can help in
diversity.
A. Summarise the policy and regulatory framework relating to equality and diversity.
 Equality Act 2010- This act was proposed with the aim of protection of employee from
any kind of harassment or discrimination within company. This provides equality to all
individual who are working under same organisation and removes discrimination based
on age, disability, gender race, sex, religion, pregnancy & maturity. It maintain the
consistency and foster positivity in firm and that is valuable for growth and development.
 Equality of opportunity: It increase the satisfaction, loyalty and commitment level of an
employee toward employer when they all received equal rights, benefits and
remuneration. It is good for both company and (Väyrynen and Paksuniemi, 2020). It
avoids the bias and all people get outcome on their performances not on based of bias. In
with the diversity and equality values everyone’s differences for maintaining positivity in
an organisation.
 Workplace regulation: It is the primary responsibly of manger or team leader to provide
safety & security to all individual while working in an organisation. For this they can
make some regulation and norms based on safety as well as can give health insurance
card to all staff for their welfare. In relevance to this it is vital to provide similar and
equal safety measurement to all workforce. Regulation require employer to provide
adequate lightning, heating, ventilation and workspace including toilet and washing
facilities.
 Organisation policies and procedures: In this, it is important to makes all policies and
regulation by considering all factors that can influences as well as by opting all
legislation that are meant for welfare of both company and organisation. It can be
includes all rules, norms, strategies etc. that are devised in company for the betterment of
organisation and effectively accomplishment of organisational gaol.

B. Influences on organisational policies and own practices due to legislations.
Influence on organisational policies:
 Nominated roles and responsibility: Due to changes in policies and strategies, roles and
responsibility that are assigned to employees also got affected because the management
team of company need to form strategies according to changes of external environment
and for this staff need to be flexible with the changes (Valle and Connor, 2019).
 Marketing & promotion of course: To promote about product/ services, for creating
awareness in market, entities need to address all policies that make them to carry out their
all activities effectively.
 Organisational policies: To devised organisational policies, management team of
company need to consider all legislation that are meant for employees and company.
With this, they will effectively run their business operation and make policies without
any hindrance.
Influence on practice:
 Awareness of current legislation: It is important for company to have awareness about
all policies & legislation that could affect the business activities. For this entities have
continuously focus on all market changes.
 Reviewing own approaches- When new legislation are imposed, management tem
within an organisation need to review their all approaches for making changes in policies
according to current changes.
 Confronting issues: This is another influence that may be occur due to change in
legislation as it become tough for all companies to be flexible with all changes.
Therefore, it become difficult for them to confronting all changes.
C. Explain how working with other agencies can promote diversity.
 Liaising with specialised support agencies: When company carry out liaising with
other specialised support agencies, then entities have so many option and viewpoints in
order to make any strategies and plan for full filling the needs and demands of consumers
effectively as well as to accomplish the common goal. This will initiate diversity in term
of several ideas company (Baglieri, 2017).
 Working with cultural or community groups- By working with different culture or
community group gives opportunity to company for gaining experiences and improving

skill for the development of organisation. As different culture group have different
knowledge and experiences and when all comes together then creates cultural diversity.
This is beneficial for company when they are wishing to expand their business and
helpful in terms of exploring. Thus it promotes cultural diversity.
 Contact with employee- When a student is in context to an employee, it is beneficial for
students in term of gaining and exploring all knowledge that are requires to be present in
an individual while working in firm. Also it promotes friendly policies, reward referral
diversity, leverage diverse job boards etc.
 Specialist Speakers- By creating mentorship programme, as it is a key component of
workforce diversity in order to make sure that everyone has opportunity to advance their
skill and knowledge. When speakers share their knowledge related with the
specialisation, it improves knowledge of workforces and provide them chances to learn
more from them. Therefore it promotes affirmative diversity.
D. Reflect on how the promotion of equality and diversity can protect learners from risk to harm.
Risk-
 Following policies and procedure- When all individual or learners will follow all
policies and norms that are meant for them, rescue them to any kind of harm or
uncertainty that may be face while forming function or activity.
 Tackling discrimination- Equality and diversity avoids discrimination & supports
learners to rescue them from any kind of discrimination that may occur at workplace
(Girardone, Kokas and Wood, 2021). Discrimination creates conflicts and equality is that
factor which eliminates discrimination.
 Recognising symptoms of students at risk- By aware students primarily, professional
can rescues their learner’s from any kind of problem and issue and fetch equality and
diversity.
 Tackling issues of stress related illness- This is another role that is performed by
manger or professional in order guard employees/ learners from harm as it lower stress
and make them feel relax and calm to perm well.

TASK 4
INTRODUCTION
Inclusive environment need mutual respect, clear communication, understanding
regarding expectation as well as critical self-reflection. In exclusive atmosphere the individual
person of cultural orientation can express their opinion in front of another person in order to
perform different work in an appropriate manner. It is also helpful in achieving goals as well as
objective in timely manner Inclusive practice approach is able to recognise diversity of different
student and there should be full participation of each and every students in each activities. In this,
there is discussion about the roles and responsibility of promoting equality and diversity.
A. Why it is important to promote an inclusive learning environment.
 Shred responsibilities- To share the responsibilities among all members of team
promotes an inclusive learning environment as all members will interest with each other
for accomplish the goal effectively.
 Collaborative working- For performing function in effective manner, it is vital to carry
out all activities in collaborative manner. It brings learning environment encourage all
staff to work in collaborative manner for the successful implementation of strategies and
plan.
 Empowering your students- By assign some roles and responsibilities to student, they
will fell relaxed and get sufficient time to think more about other activates this foster an
inclusive learning environment.
 Celebrating achievement- When teacher celebrates the achievement then it motives
students and make them happy to perform well more and improve their career.
B. Summarise your own role & responsibility in promoting equality and diversity.
 Celebrating success- In order to promote equality and diversity within organisation, the
primary rile that is performed by entities are celebration of success as it motive and
encourage staff. Also gives them strength to perform more effectively in future.
 Promoting inclusive practices- This is considered as another duty that is performed by
management team as it promotes diversity and equality for the betterment of (Schuelka
and et.al., 2019).