Equality and Diversity Report - Gilon Institute, London, Semester 1

This report delves into the multifaceted aspects of equality and diversity within the context of a higher education institution, Gilon Institute. It begins by defining key concepts such as equality and diversity, identifying and explaining nine categories related to equality and diversity, and analyzing the importance of promoting them. The report then explores factors affecting learning, including language development and social barriers, and reviews the impact of different abilities on learning. It identifies barriers to equality and diversity, and suggests actionable steps to remove them. The report also summarizes policy and regulatory frameworks, analyzes their influence on institutional practices, and explains how collaboration with other agencies can promote diversity and protect learners. Furthermore, it examines the role of an inclusive learning environment, summarizes the author's responsibilities in promoting inclusion, analyzes ways to promote inclusion, and explains actions to value individual learners. The report concludes by exploring the relationship between the author's role and other professionals involved in inclusive practice, identifying referral points, and outlining strategies for liaison. Finally, it demonstrates the promotion of equality and diversity through a lesson plan, defines institutional culture, and reviews the effectiveness of inclusive practices and promotion of equality and diversity.

Equality and Diversity

TASK 1.................................................................................................................................................3
A: Identify and explain the 9 categories with regards to equality and diversity.................................3
B: Define diversity............................................................................................................................4
C: Why is it important to promote equality and diversity..................................................................4
D: Analyse the ways to promote equality and value diversity...........................................................5
TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................5
A What are the factors affecting learning? Review their impact on learning.....................................5
B Review the impact of different abilities on learning.......................................................................6
C What are the barriers to equality and diversity? How are they relevant to your practices?............7
D Suggest what can be done to remove these barriers in your Gilon Instiute of Higher Education,
London..............................................................................................................................................7
TASK 3.................................................................................................................................................8
A: Summarise the policy and regulatory frameworks relating to equality and diversity and inclusive
practice..............................................................................................................................................8
B: What are the influences of the above on your Gilon Instiute of Higher Education, Londonal
policies and own practice (at least 3 points from each paragraph)?...................................................9
C: Explain how working with other agencies can promote diversity...............................................10
D: Reflect on how the promotion of equality and diversity can protect learners from risk of harm.11
TASK 4...............................................................................................................................................11
A: Why is it important to promote an inclusive learning environment (Benefits?)..........................11
B: Summarise your own role and responsibilities in promoting inclusion, equality and diversity...12
C: Analyse ways to promote inclusion............................................................................................13
D: Explain actions that can be taken to value individual learners and explain good practice in
providing individual learners with information...............................................................................13
TASK 5...............................................................................................................................................14
A: Explain the relationship between own role and the roles of other professionals involved in
inclusive practice.............................................................................................................................14
B: Identify the points of referral available to meet the individual needs of your learners................14
C: What are the strategies that you use to liaise with the professionals involved?...........................15
TASK 6...............................................................................................................................................15
A. Demonstrate how you promote equality and diversity through a Lesson Plan............................15
B. Define Gilon Instiute of Higher Education, Londonal culture.....................................................16
C. Give examples of how your own behaviours impacted negatively and positively on your Gilon
Instiute of Higher Education, Londonal culture...............................................................................17
TASK 7...............................................................................................................................................17
Review the effectiveness of own inclusive practice and promotion of equality and diversity.........17
REFERENCES..................................................................................................................................19

TASK 1
A: Identify and explain the 9 categories with regards to equality and diversity
Equality means the state of being equal as it is one of the ideal democratic society as well
as so individuals are fighting for gaining different type of equality such as racial, gender and
many more (Machin and et. al., 2020). On the other hand, diversity means understanding that
every individual is unique as well as recognizing individual differences.
 Age – This Act protect people of all age as different treatment because of age is not
unlawful or indirect discrimination if individual can justify it (Palacios, 2016).
Education is right of every individual person so it is important for educational
institution to select candidates without creating any age discrimination.
 Gender – Both men and women has to be treated equally no discrimination has to be
done in them. Unequally on the basis of equality act. Thus, both men and women have
right to be educate so it is essential for educational institution to ensure that
educational institution should have to educate student without creating and gender
discrimination.
 Disability – There are several disable people who should not be discriminate in
educational institution as they also have right to get educated (Standish, 2019).
 Gender reassignment – The Act protect transsexual people, they are the one who
proposes to start or complete procedure of changing their gender.
 Pregnancy and maternity – It protect the women who discriminated on the ground of
maternity and pregnancy as well as any statutory leave which she entitled during
entire period.
 Race – For the purpose of the Act “race” involves nationality, colour as well as
national or ethnic origins (Brewis, 2019).
 Religion - In the Equality Act, religion includes any religion. It also includes no
religion, in other words employees or jobseekers are protected if they do not follow a
certain religion or have no religion at all.
 Sexual orientation – Equality Act protect bisexual, lesbian, heterosexual as well as
gay.
 Marriage and Civil partnership – The Act protects staff who are married as well as in
civil partnership in relation of discrimination. But single people are not protected in
this.

B: Define diversity
Diversity means understanding that every individual is unique as well as recognizing
individual differences (Bowl, 2018). There are several things which has to be consider in
diversity are as follows :-
 Opportunity in employment and progression – Every educational institution such
Gilon Institute of Higher Education, London have to hire diverse workforce which is
important along with this it help in dealing with client from different country in
effective manner and also accomplishing goals and objectives.
 Range of students and learning need – There are several students in single
classroom who are diverse from each other on several basis such as religion, race and
many more. In that situation it is important for teacher to conduct session in such
manner that everyone can understand.
 Social inequalities – It is also major point which has to be covered in diversity
because there are several people who create differences because of social inequalities
among each other.
C: Why is it important to promote equality and diversity
Equality and diversity is considered as practices in which every employee get equal
chance at the workplace (Lahelma and Tainio, 2019). There are several benefits of equality
and diversity which a company may gain, from which some are mentioned below:-
 Richness of social mix – Equality and diversity helps a Gilon Institute of Higher
Education, London in adopting social mix through which they can adopt new ideas or
technology from different areas or location (Abankina and et. al., 2016). It will also
help in development of richness of social mix which motivates employees.
 Multi culture society – Through equality and diversity multi culture society will
promote which enhance moral of staff at the workplace as well as it also enhance their
work performance.
 Opportunity for progression – Equality and diversity also help in gaining
opportunities for the progression because it motivates an employee which leads to
growth of workplace.
 Promoting best practices – Equality and diversity help in promoting best practices at
the workplace because through it employees get equal change which motivate as well
as encourage them.

 Mutual support – While a Gilon Institute of Higher Education, London adopt
equality and diversity at their workplace they leads to feeling of mutual support which
motivate as well as encourage employees to perform properly and effectively.
D: Analyse the ways to promote equality and value diversity
There are several ways which a company must adopt in order to promoting equality
and diversity at their workplace. From which some are mentioned below:-
 Creating opportunity for sharing – Equality and diversity will be promoted through
developing equal opportunity for very person so that they can feel equal as well as
important (Özbilgin and Slutskaya, 2017).
 Celebrate diversity – For a educational institution it is also essential that they must
celebrate each and every festival which is of all religion because through that they
able to promote equality and diversity at the workplace successfully and effectively.
 Positive attitude to individual – For promoting equality and diversity a company
must motivate positive attitude among the staffs or individual because they will feel
encouraged which enhance their productivity.
 Empowering individuals – It is also essential for firm to empower employees and
individual so that they can promote equality and diversity effectively (Thompson,
2016). This is so because through it they able to empower individual.
These are main ways through which a company as well as society can promote
equality and diversity as well as it will also help them in motivating and enhancing their
performance.
TASK 2
A What are the factors affecting learning? Review their impact on learning
There are several factors which affect learning such as development of language,
educational background and social or cultural barriers. Explanation of these are as follows :-
 Development of language - When individual is from different nation then they have
distinct language which may sometimes work as barriers while learning (Loredo and
Merritt, 2019). Because it will create difficulties as differences in language may result
in creating issues as particular person nit able to learn things in better manner.
 Educational background – For learning something in better manner it is important
for individual to have minimum education which required for learning. Because

education is the factor which have wide impact on learning of particular person. As
for understanding some factors related to learning it is essential to have minimum
qualification.
 Social or cultural barriers – These barriers also result in affecting learning of
individual within both positive and negative manner. People from different cultural or
social status have distinct understanding level which may work as barrier within life
of individual while learning anything.
These are the factors which have wide impact on learning and individual have to work on
these factors in effective manner (Legrand, Al Ariss and Bozionelos, 2019). So they will be
able to learn new skills, knowledge and several other things in better manner.
B Review the impact of different abilities on learning
An individual have different abilities which result in wide impact of learning of particular
person. Explanation of these abilities along with their impact on learning are mention
below :-
 Physical disability – individual with physical disabilities result in impact on learning
as they feel difficulties within managing distance within distinct learning activities,
notetaking, carrying materials, practical’s as well as they take longer time in asking or
and answering any question which is related to overall learning.
 Skills Development – Most essential reason of skills development for individual is
that they will be able to take better future opportunities as well as top level position in
business firm (Sparkman and Walton, 2019). In addition to this, when individual have
developing skills they will be able to learn things in effective manner which have
positive impact on their lives.
 Visual awareness - Visual skills in relation to word reading has not been central to
recent explorations of reading development, all visual word reading involves visual
skill. With the assistance of visual awareness individual will have good reading skills
as through this they will be able to learn things in more effective manner and gain
better outcomes related to the same.
Thus, above mention are the abilities have wide impact on learning several things within
positive as well as negative both manners (Kizilcec and Saltarelli, 2019). As it is important
for particular person to learn something new in better manner because these will have
positive impact on their future within effective manner.

C What are the barriers to equality and diversity? How are they relevant to your practices?
There are several factors which result in barriers within equality and diversity
practices. Explanation of these are as follows :-
 Discrimination – It is one of the major factor which work as an barrier within
equality and diversity because there are several people which treat other
discriminately. As it became barriers within life of individual while treated equally
and diversely (Jeffers, 2020). In simple term it can be said that it is right of individual
to be treated in equal and get diverse opportunities.
 Social inequality – It is one of the major factors which result as an barrier within
equality and diversity. Because there are numerous people who don’t want to talk or
stand with people who are socially not equal to them.
 Lack of self-confidence – If individual is not having confidence level then there may
be chances that may be treated unequal as well as most of the people try to avoid
them. Thus, in simple term it can be said that for gaining equality and diversity
opportunity it is important for individual to have self-confidence.
 Limits of language – There are several people who are from distinct nations which
simply result in creating language differences (Ramirez and et. al., 2019). If may be
difficult for each other to understand things who are having different languages. In
addition to this, limits of language may result as barrier within equality and diversity
opportunities provided particular person.
D Suggest what can be done to remove these barriers in your organisation
It is important for an Gilon Institute of higher education to remove barriers which an
institution face because it will result in hampering their daily basis activities as well as
overall educational institution working also (Gerdin and et. al., 2019). There are several ways
to remove such barriers explanation of these are as follows :-
 Respond to feedbacks – it is important for an educational institution such as Gilon
Institute of Higher Education, London to respond the feedbacks they had taken from
individual in relation of equality and diversity because these will have positive impact
on their working within effective manner.
 Encourage team working – It is one of the best suggestions because working in team
may result in gaining better advantages as well as it provides assistance in

encouraging equality and diversity within Gilon Institute of Higher Education,
London.
 Negotiating individual role and responsibility – For individual negotiation within their
role as well as responsibility work like an effective tool for equality and diversity
purpose (North and Longlands, 2019).
Thus, it is important for an educational institution to take these major steps as it will provide
assistance in removing obstacles related to equality and diversity within effective manner.
TASK 3
A: Summarise the policy and regulatory frameworks relating to equality and diversity and
inclusive practice.
There are several legislation, employment regulation as well as code of practices
which introduced by government of every nation (Bezyak and et. al., 2019). For every
educational institution it is important to implement these practices related to equality and
diversity within there working explanation of these are as follows :-
 Equality Act 2010 – It is an Act which legally protect individual from discrimination
within workplace and in wider society. Equality act 2010 replaced previous anti-
discrimination laws through single act. In simple term it can be said that respective act
has given legal framework for protection individual rights as well as advance equality
of opportunity to everyone.
 Equality of opportunity – For every individual person opportunity should be equal as
per their role in Gilon Institute of Higher Education, London. Along with this,
equality in opportunity is employment regulation which help in conducting daily basis
operations in equal and diversify manner.
 Organisational policies and procedures – For educational institutions it is important to
design or frame policies and procedures related to equality and diversity so that better
outcomes will be gained in effective manner (Vokić, Obadić and Ćorić, 2019). Along
with this, it results in no discrimination and equal opportunities will be provided to
every candidate in better manner.
 Investment – It is important for educational institution to investment in such practices
which result in equality an d diversity within institution. Along with this, they have to
invest on each and every individual in equal manner without any discrimination on
the basis of any factor.

In addition to this, there are some professional standards related to teacher and educator
which they have to implement within their working such equal opportunity to every single
student, implementation of equality act, equal investment for every single student and many
other which promote equality and diversity in educational institution (Brooks, 2019).
B: What are the influences of the above on your organisation policies and own practice (at
least 3 points from each paragraph)?
All the above mention legislation, rules, code of conduct and so on have wide
influence Gilon Institute of Higher Education, London policies and practices. Explanation of
these are as follows :-
Influence of Gilon Institute of Higher Education, London policies
 Organisational policies – Educational Institution policies provide assistance in
accomplishing equality and diversity within their working in effective manner.
 Requirement of CPD – It is important for teacher who are working in educational
institution to do continuous professional development so that better outcomes will be
gained (Lister, Coughlan and Owen, 2020). In addition to this, policies and procedures
of educational institution play important role in CPD.
 Marketing and promotion of courses – Equality and Diversity practices provide
assistance in marketing as well as promotion of Gilon Institute of Higher Education,
London. As it will provide assistance in accomplishing goals and objectives in better
manner.
Influence on own practices
 Awareness of current legislation – By implementing equality Act 2010 teacher within
Gilon Institute of Higher Education, London will able to get knowledge about resent
legislation in effective manner. Along with this, they will get aware about present
legislations in effective manner.
 Recognise own role and responsibilities – By designing rules and regulation within
effective manner according to equality and diversity individual will able to known
their role and responsibility (Mejía-Dorantes and Villagrán, 2020). As they will also
take major steps for encouraging equality and diversity in educational institution.
 Reviewing own approaches – Every individual have own approach in promoting
equality and diversity in this equality act, Gilon Institute of Higher Education, London
policies and procedure as well as investment provide assistance.

C: Explain how working with other agencies can promote diversity
An agency is business that provide services to customers on the behalf of other
business firm. Motive of working with agency is to make customers satisfy and fulfil
demands within effective manner (Thorpe, 2019). Working with other business firm or
agencies result in promoting diversity explanation of these factors are mention below :-
 Working with cultural or community groups – Such agencies provide assistance to
educational institution that they have to work with cultural or community groups as it
results in promoting diversity among their staff members. In addition to this Diverse
workforce provide assistance in managing student from every culture in better manner
and also result in accomplishing goals and objectives within effective manner.
 Specialist speakers – While working with other agencies, educational institution able
to promote diversity because there are several specialists in such agencies (Saifuddin,
Dyke and Hossain, 2019). Because speakers provide assistance in analysing
advantages of diversity workforces and result in promoting it within effective manner.
 Specialist visits – It is also an factors which provide assistance to educational
institutions in promoting diversity because specialist visit institutions and talk about
advantages of diversity within their working. In addition to these specialists are those
people who are well aware of diversity along with there positive and negative impact
on company working. in simple term it can be said that, they are the one who provide
assistance in promoting diversity in educational institution.
 Enabling students to access support agencies – Not only educational institutions need
support agencies but some time students also feel several difficulties as well as
problems. Because these agencies have specialist who gives good suggestions to
students and encourage them for adopting diversity, learning several new things and
many more.
Above mention are the factors which agencies have and all these provide assistance to
educational institution in promoting diversity within more effective manner (Bhopal and
Henderson, 2019). Along with this, they help in accomplishing goals and objectives
effectively without facing any difficulties.

D: Reflect on how the promotion of equality and diversity can protect learners from risk of
harm
There are numerous ways to promote equality and diversity as well as it protect
learners from risk of harm (Brown and Rogers, 2020). As in educational institution it is
responsibility of staff that student are safe in there institution and there will be not any type of
harm. Explanation of these are as follows:-
 Following policies and procedures – it is important to follow policies and procedures
in better manner which include equality as well as diversity also. So that, work will be
conduct in proper manner and better outcomes will be gained (de Wet and Simmonds,
2019). Along with this, following policies and procedures result in protecting learners
from risk of any type harm.
 Tackling discrimination – For Gilon Institute of Higher Education, London it is
important to tackle discriminations in proper manner as well ad they have to ensure
that no such practices will conduct in institution which result in harming other
students as well as result in practices like inequality and discrimination.
 Tacking issues of stress related illness – It result in several other health issues and
may harm body of other people as it is important for educational institution to make
sure that they are tacking issues of stress related illness from every single person
body. Because it may result in several other issues also as well as such practices has
not to be done in discriminated manner.
 Invest in specialized provision – There are several other specialized provisions which
result in conducting practices by following policies related to equality and diversity.
Along with this, they provide assistance in reducing changes of any risk and help in
gaining better outcomes and conducting activities within educational institution in
more effective manner.
TASK 4
A: Why is it important to promote an inclusive learning environment (Benefits?)
Learning environment is related to the diverse physical locations, culture as well as
contexts in that students learn (Azorín and et. al., 2019). There are several benefits of
promoting an inclusive learning environment explanation of these are as follows :-
 Respect for others –Learning environment result in developing respect for other
peoples because in this environment teacher teach students that they have to respect