M1 Assess the Effects on Those Using the Service of Three Different Discriminatory Practices in Health and Social Settings

Discrimination, Hate crime, Prejudice

M1 Assess the effects on those using the service of three different discriminatory practices in health and social settings Discriminatory practice can be defined as making or showing an unfair or prejudicial distinction between different categories of people or their beliefs and practices, centred around race, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation and disability. Although there are many laws in place to protect individual rights against discrimination such as the Equality Act 2010, there are still cases of it occurring in many different situations including within the health and social care system.

One type of discrimination which occurs regularly is Racism. Racism can be defined as possessing certain views, carrying out practices or actions which reflect the belief that humanity is divided into ‘groups’ and that members of a certain ‘race’ share certain attributes which make that group as a whole less desirable, more desirable, inferior or superior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism 17/05/13 Sadly, some individuals take their views too far and have acted out violent attacks on innocent people, purely because of their ethnic background, for example, the case of Stephen Lawrence.

Stephen was a Black British man from Eltham in south east London, who was murdered in a racist attack while waiting for a bus on the evening of 22 April 1993. It was suggested during the course of that investigation that the murder was racially motivated and that Stephen was murdered purely because he was black. Initially, no one was arrested after the attack which then led to questioning about the handling of the case by the Police and the Crown Prosecution Service who were then themselves accused of institutional racism (according to the 1999 McPherson report). The investigation into Stephen's death was found to have been marred by professional incompetence and categorical errors. The general public were outraged when they learned that the Police had dismissed...
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