Several organisations have been set up to assist or care for children who are primarily vulnerable; the trustees are responsible for ensuring that those benefitting from, or working with, are not abused in any way through contacts with it; they have a legal duty to act cautiously and this means that they must take all realistic steps within their power to ensure that this does not happen. It is particularly important where recipients are vulnerable children in the community; trustees are expected to find out what the relevant law is, how it applies to their organisation, and to comply with it where applicable, they should also adopt best practice as far as possible. In addition the main purpose of this module is to be accountable for the
Here at this child care we strongly feel and are committed in encouraging children and families from all social class, religion, race and disability to achieve his/her full potential. We are very aware of just how important it is to share awareness of diversity and cultural experiences to help others become aware of
Tokenism is the act or practice of making an obligatory or minimal effort towards something. It occurs when cultural diversity and differences are not affirmed and embedded in everyday practices in the program. It is tokenistic, for example, to focus on differences by having displays of cultural artefacts from other countries if you don’t ensure they are evident in everyday practice and used by children in their learning experiences. Australian Government (2010), states that tokenism can be avoided in an early childhood setting by not focusing on a specific culture or a child’s specific culture. For example when working with a group of children there may be a number of children from a variety of backgrounds and cultures.
Octavia Butler’s novel, Kindred, is written in science fiction, where the female protagonist, Dana, travels back in time to Maryland, during the period of slavery. Dana realizes the reason she is called to take part in the past is to help her family heritage last through another character in the book, Rufus. Dana must learn to adapt to the time of slavery and help Rufus when he is in trouble and may not survive, but she must do whatever it takes to allow him to survive. Dana experienced many hardships and struggles during her journey in the novel. Many of her experiences were based upon the facts of discriminations which were brought on by her race, gender, and education.
This report is to highlight the impact residential care has on young children 3.1 What is Residential Care? Residential Care is care provided for old or sick people or children in a residential faculty. Children in care is also referred to as a looked after child. A looked after child is someone under 18, lives away from their parents or family.
“You is kind, you is smart, you is important” was stated in the movie, The Help. This movie, took place in the 1960’s, right after slavery ended. The movie is told by the point of view of two black women, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, and one white woman, Skeeter. The movie shows the struggles of post-discrimination that black people faced when slavery “ended”. It shows all of the backlash that black maids working in rich white homes faced.
Discrimination: What it does to the United States Discrimination has existed in the world since the beginning of cultural societies. Discrimination takes several forms; examples include religious, economic, political, and sexual orientation. All of these forms affect society. As a result, discrimination negatively affects society because of salary/wage discrimination based on gender and age and Muslim student discrimination in high schools. Discrimination has a place in the financials of a person based on their gender and age.
Families, children and young people have the right to live free from abuse, harm and neglect. If harm or abuse is suspected or alleged the child or young person has the right to be listened to, to be respected and to kept informed and be involved (where appropriate) in any decision making. †̃Anyone working with children should see and speak to the child; listen to what they say; take their views seriously; and work with them collaboratively when deciding how to support their needs.â€TM (Working Together to Safeguard Children) The Children Act 1989 requires that local authorities give due regard to a childâ€TMs wishes when determining what services to provide.
For individual discrimination, it is mainly that through our personal experiences and lessons learned and received in the past, to prejudiced another person. At the same time, institutional discrimination usually produce prejudice to the most of large institutions and organizations for part of the race and ethnic. In current society, individual discrimination is often released in the color issue today; we often are isolated by our own color. Sometimes, people who the white drive in the cars are easier to get forgiveness and understanding of police officers, but for other color race, these people usually tend to be suspects by other people. On the other hand, institutional discrimination is mainly manifested in several areas: economy, education,
No Matter the Price; Discrimination Shapes America Discrimination occurs within a variety of ethnic groups, gender, and even religion. One of the most unrecognizing types of discrimination is shared between bankruptcy and prosperous people. Discrimination is part of America as troublesome as it may be. However, it is what sets the standards within cultures, employment facilities, and even families. First hand experiences show how extremely intrusive people will be to each other.
In term 2, I have learnt many things along the way from SAWI. Invisible discrimination is present worldwide and everyone has faced invisible discrimination before, be it the majority group or much more frequently the minority group. Discrimination is the treatment or making a different judgement against someone based on their group which that person is thought to belong to rather than by their personal achievements. This includes the treating of an individual or group based on their membership in that certain social group in an approach that is much worse than how people are normally treated. Discrimination restricts an individual of a certain group to be unable to have benefits or opportunities as another more majority group.
The three psychological theories which are used to explain the causes of prejudice and discrimination will be evaluated and outlined in this essay. Prejudice is a negative feeling directed at members of a group just because they are part of the group. Discrimination can be seen as the behavioural expression of prejudice i.e. the behaviour or negative actions, directed at members of other group, mainly based on their sex, ethnicity, age or social class. The mass murder of Jews by the Nazi’s in the Second World War is an example of prejudice and discrimination. Prejudice comprises of affection, behaviour and cognition of an individual, whereas discrimination only involves the behaviour.
The roles and responsibilities of different agencies and practitioners working to with children and young people. The role of Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCB’s) The process to
Discrimination. “Did you see that girl!? What is she wearing on her head?” “That 's so weird! She 's obviously not from here!” “Do you think it 's because of her culture?
Anti-discriminatory practice is to help support all work with children, young people and their families. It is important that settings promote anti-discriminatory practice by offering equality of opportunity and being inclusive to all children who attend the setting. Anti-discriminatory practice is also all about the implementation of the work settings equal opportunities policy in all aspects of the setting such as the curriculum which members of staff have to follow in order to plan, deliver and evaluate daily. It is important that members of staff in a work setting make sure that each individual child has an opportunity to take part and participate in all activities whether it is indoors or outdoors in order to achieve their learning potential of what is expected of them according to their age development. It is important that when working with children all members of staff and practitioners must have a
