Linda Moss

Nearly 1 in 10 British children is growingup in a Mixed Race household. Society’s age structure is changing, with a

growing proportion of the population aged over 50.

some minority groups who were once more orless invisible – for example, transgender people– have become more confident about expressingtheir identity in the public sphere.

What are your human rights?

http://uk.oneworld.net/guides/humanrights?gclid=COjp0oms2qYCFQ1O4Qodg1Kl1A

A gap of less than 20 years separates the

debate about Section 28, a piece of law which stigmatised same-sex relationships, and

There have also been changes in attitudes about race – people are increasingly atease with the idea of working with and forpeople of a different

ethnic background to their own.

Some gender stereotypes, such as the ideathat ‘a woman’s place is in the home’, havebegun to soften.

Black Caribbean and Bangladeshi pupils have

begun to catch up with the averageperformance at GCSE.• The gender pay gap has narrowedconsiderably since the Equal Pay Act 1970came into force in 1975.• The criminal justice system now

recognisesdifferent forms of hate crime and has begun

to provide more appropriate support to people

who experience it.

Gypsies and Travellers and some types of migrants, are still likely to encounter negative attitudes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlQWD550XG8

Some groups of people are on average much more likely than others to fare badly in education, in work, and in public life.

the current economic and social crises threaten to widen some equality gaps that might have closed in better times.

without corrective action longer term trends, such as technological and demographic changes are likely to entrench new forms of inequality.

Life Security Health Education Employment Standard of living Care and support Power and voice

LifeA girl born at the start of the twentieth centuryhad an average life expectancy of less than 50years. By contrast, the Office for NationalStatistics predicts that girls born in 2008 will

live,on average, for more than 90 years. This remarkable increase is a testament to

medical breakthroughs, changes in the British economy,and improvements in diet and housing that

haverevolutionised life over the past century.

Despite this progress, there remain significant

differences between the life expectancies of

different groups in modern Britain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZAyYBDUNug (class)

Black Caribbean and Pakistani babies aretwice as likely to die in their first year thanBangladeshi or White British babies. Over 70 homicides that occurred in Englandand Wales between 2007/08 and 2009/10 werecharged as resulting from racially or religiouslyaggravated, transphobic or homophobic, ordisability-related hate crimes.

The headings of age, disability (which includes mental health and people diagnosed as clinically obese), race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (people who are having or who have had a sex change, transvestites and transgender people), marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity are now to be known as 'protected characteristics'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mYPWIl8BTM

• Direct discrimination: discrimination because of a protected characteristic.

• Associative discrimination: direct discrimination against someone because they are associated with another person with a protected characteristic. (This includes carers of disabled people and elderly relatives, who can claim they were treated unfairly because of duties that had to carry out at home relating to their care work. It also covers discrimination against someone because, for example, their partner is from another country.)

• Indirect discrimination: when you have a rule or policy that applies to everyone but disadvantages a person with a protected characteristic.

• Harassment: behaviour deemed offensive by the recipient. Employees can claim they find something offensive even when it's not directed at them.

• Harassment by a third party: employers are potentially liable for the harassment of staff or customers by people they don't directly employ, such as a contractor.

• Victimisation: discrimination against someone because they made or supported a complaint under Equality Act legislation.

• Discrimination by perception: direct discrimination against someone because others think they have a protected characteristic (even if they don't).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuuDQSChMZg&feature=player_embedded Discrimination

You can no longer ask a prospective employee about their health before offering them work,

You can't treat someone unfavourably because of something connected to a disability

Disabled people can now claim a particular rule or requirement disadvantages people with a certain disability

Example Ms Battle applies for a job which involves a

lot of travelling. She has the best skills and experience but the company knows that Ms Battle cares for her son who is disabled.

The company makes an assumption that she cannot manage because she has a disabled son and so it doesn’t offer her the job.

This is direct discrimination because Ms Battle is associated with a disabled person. It’s against the law to refuse to offer her the job for that reason.

You can't discriminate against someone who is or has changed their gender

Mothers are allowed to breastfeed in public (on premises) - they can't be asked to go to a more private place.

Age is still the only protected characteristic by which you can justify direct discrimination, because you can argue that treating someone differently because of their age is allowed as long as it means you're doing it to meet a legitimate aim.

You can also still have a default retirement age of 65 (unless/until the retirement age legislation changes, which it may do in the coming years). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltVxOIfitRI&feature=fvsr

Tribunal judges can recommend changes to the practise of an entire business rather than just to the way an individual is treated

Staff are now free to discuss wages with each other

People making claims can now bring a 'dual discrimination' claim, meaning the tribunal assesses the impact of the two protected characteristics in conjunction ('young Polish') where before they considered each protected characteristic separately ('young' and 'Polish')

http://www.smarta.com/advice/legal/employment-law/the-equality-act-(october-1-2010)-need-to-know-for-small-businesses?gclid=CJSlmpOx2KcCFYob4QodeU9G9w#

http://www.equalities.gov.uk/equality_act_2010.aspx

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/RightsAndObligations/DisabilityRights/DG_4001068

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/equality_act_2010_carer.pdf