Hi, you can read what the Equality Act is on
equalityhumanrights.com and
what it protects individuals from.
To help word a response to the criteria, your job contract, a list of your responsibilities in work along with the seting's policy for equality - equal opportunities, inclsion, anti-discrimination, diversity and other codes of practice will be useful.
Page 128+ of the EYE handbook looks deeper into these areas of practice:
- Working with the policies and progedures of the setting
- Valuing the individual child
- Developing and sustaining a child centered approach
- Engaging actively with the family to appreciate the holistid cneeds of the child
- Providing an inclusive environment which actively welcomes diversity
- Being a positive role model in promoting equality, diversity and inclusive practice
- Recognising discriminiiative practice
- Knowing how, why and when to challenge discrimination
- Engaging in effective parnership working to enable the child
Page 132 looks at professional practice:
Interacting with children and meeting their individual needs
- promote a sense of belonging
- value cultural diversity and respect difference
- give individual children individual help
- undersand religions
- include children with disabilities
- have an awareness of gender roles
- avoid stryotypes and labelling
- promote a child's self worth
This is a quote from
page 180 of this book
The Equality Act sets out the different ways in which it is unlawful to treat someone, such as direct and indirect discrimination, harrasement, victimisation and failing to make a reasonable adjustment for a disabled person.
An excellent way to know why you're challenging discrimination is to recognise the effects discrimination can have on children
This is from page 302
Discrimination of any kind prevents children and young people from developing a feeling of self-worth or self-esteem. The effects of being discriminated against can last the whole of a child's life. In particular- Be unable to fulfil their potential because they are made to feel their efforts are not valued or recognised by others.
- Find it hard to form relationships with others because of low self-worth or self-esteem.
- Be so affected by the steryotypes or labels applied to them that they start to beleive in them and behave in accordance with other's expectations. This then becomes a self-fulfiling prophecy: for example, if a child is repeatedly ttold that he is clumsy, he may act in a clumsy way even when quite capable of acting otherwise.
- Feel shame about their own cultural background.
- Feel that they are in some way to blame for their unfair treatment, and so withdraw into themselves.
- Lack confidence in trying new activities if their attempts are always ridiculed or put down.
- Be aggressive towards others: distress or anger can prevent children from playing cooperatively with other children.
Hth xx
The Equality Act and how it links to your job role?
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