Unit 204 Equality And Diversity
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Unit 204 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in work with children and young people
Identify the current legislation and codes of practice relevant to the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity.
Equality is ensuring individuals or groups of individuals are treated fairly and equally and no less favourably, specific to their needs, including areas of race, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation and age. Promoting equality should remove discrimination in all of the areas described above. Bullying, harassment or victimization are also considered forms of equality and diversity issues.
Diversity aims to recognise, respect and value people? differences to contribute and realise their full potential by promoting …show more content…
Equality of access: ensuring that discriminatory barriers to access are removed and allowing for children and young peoplesindividual needs. Anti-discriminatory practice:taking positive action to counter discrimination. This will involve identifying and challenging discrimination and being positive in own practice about differences and similarities between people Inclusion: a process of identifying, understanding and breaking down barriers to participation and …show more content…
For example studies have shown that some groups of children do not meet their expected levels of attainment,. The attainment gap between the poorest and richest children, which has been described as "the devil in our education system", A pupil on free school meals (a measure of poverty) was still less than half as likely to succeed at every level at school than their classmate who was not on free school meals. These finding came from a paper ?reaking the Link published 2009 by the Department for Children,Schools and Families. It also states that while black pupils have made faster progress in recent years, they still lag behind the average pupil. The report concludes that teaching staff should know which pupils are most in need, and that everything should be done to break the long standing link between deprivation, black and minority ethnic groups and poor attainment that has scarred the UK for many decades. Thus the greatest challenge, was found in schools where average results are good, and there are fewer free school meals pupils, but where the attainment gap is the biggest of all. Therefore in conclusion, equal opportunities does not mean treating pupils the same, but ensuring that the teaching staff deliver the curriculum that meets the individual needs of all pupils, so as to allow them to realise their
Unit 204 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in work with children and young people
Identify the current legislation and codes of practice relevant to the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity.
Equality is ensuring individuals or groups of individuals are treated fairly and equally and no less favourably, specific to their needs, including areas of race, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation and age. Promoting equality should remove discrimination in all of the areas described above. Bullying, harassment or victimization are also considered forms of equality and diversity issues.
Diversity aims to recognise, respect and value people? differences to contribute and realise their full potential by promoting …show more content…
Equality of access: ensuring that discriminatory barriers to access are removed and allowing for children and young peoplesindividual needs. Anti-discriminatory practice:taking positive action to counter discrimination. This will involve identifying and challenging discrimination and being positive in own practice about differences and similarities between people Inclusion: a process of identifying, understanding and breaking down barriers to participation and …show more content…
For example studies have shown that some groups of children do not meet their expected levels of attainment,. The attainment gap between the poorest and richest children, which has been described as "the devil in our education system", A pupil on free school meals (a measure of poverty) was still less than half as likely to succeed at every level at school than their classmate who was not on free school meals. These finding came from a paper ?reaking the Link published 2009 by the Department for Children,Schools and Families. It also states that while black pupils have made faster progress in recent years, they still lag behind the average pupil. The report concludes that teaching staff should know which pupils are most in need, and that everything should be done to break the long standing link between deprivation, black and minority ethnic groups and poor attainment that has scarred the UK for many decades. Thus the greatest challenge, was found in schools where average results are good, and there are fewer free school meals pupils, but where the attainment gap is the biggest of all. Therefore in conclusion, equal opportunities does not mean treating pupils the same, but ensuring that the teaching staff deliver the curriculum that meets the individual needs of all pupils, so as to allow them to realise their