1. Cathryn Jani – Senior Lecturer in Social Work Discrimination BSc (Hons) Social Work SOW 1032M Values Ethics and Equality

2. Cathryn Jani – Senior Lecturer in Social Work What is Discrimination? “Discrimination is a process through which certain groups and individuals are disadvantaged and oppressed.” Neil Thompson (1998)

3. Cathryn Jani – Senior Lecturer in Social Work Definitions and Meanings Direct Discrimination – a person directly discriminates against another person when factors that are not related to merit, ability, potential are used as a reason for treating them differently and discriminating against them. www.bangor.ac.uk

4. Cathryn Jani – Senior Lecturer in Social Work Definitions Discrimination: “ set up or act on the basis of, a difference between another, make a distinction especially on the grounds of race or colour or sex” The concise Oxford Dictionary

5. Cathryn Jani – Senior Lecturer in Social Work Discrimination can work at and within different levels Individual or person to person Institutional or organisation to individual or organisation to organisation Cultural, societal or structural, dominant discriminatory themes or ideas that we are inculcated into as part of our socialisation

6. Cathryn Jani – Senior Lecturer in Social Work Types of Negative Discrimination Individual Discrimination: When an individual treats somebody differently because of external characteristics or lifestyle and not in terms of individual value or worth. Examples: assuming older people have little to contribute, avoiding someone you believe to be gay.

7. Cathryn Jani – Senior Lecturer in Social Work Institutional Discrimination What is institutional racism? " The collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture or ethnic origin which can be seen or detected in processes; attitudes and behaviour which amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racist stereotyping which disadvantages minority ethnic people." From the Macpherson report

8. Cathryn Jani – Senior Lecturer in Social Work  Racism in general terms consists of conduct or words or practices which disadvantage or advantage people because of their colour, culture, or ethnic origin. In its more subtle form it is as damaging as in its overt form.  Taken from: The Stephen Lawrence inquiry Chapter 6 6.5

9. Cathryn Jani – Senior Lecturer in Social Work Structural and Societal Discrimination “ The roots of discrimination are embedded in the structures of wider society…informed by history, culture, dominant ideology, policies and practices ”. Promoting Equality in Care Practice

10. Cathryn Jani – Senior Lecturer in Social Work Examples of Societal Discrimination Study by Booth, McConnell and Booth 2006 2/3 of parents with learning difficulties known to agencies and receiving services were recorded as presenting child protection concerns. 15.3% of children in care proceedings has at least one parent with a learning disability. 2 out of every 5 children born to mothers/ fathers with learning disabilities are permanently removed from the care of their parents. Quote from Social work involved in study: “ A lot of social workers won’t have ever met an adult with learning disabilities……they don’t get on with people with learning disabilities, they don’t like working with them because of the time that they take, and they do take time” British Journal of Social work (2006)36, 997-1015

11. Cathryn Jani – Senior Lecturer in Social Work Disabled people are twice as likely to live in poverty because of the barriers they face in finding paid employment, a wide-ranging report on social exclusion finds. The number of disabled adults of a working age living below 60 per cent of the average income has increased by 10 per cent over the past decade, says the report by think-tank the New Policy Institute, and funded by the Joseph Rowntree Trust. (Community Care 7/12/2006

12. Cathryn Jani – Senior Lecturer in Social Work The survey follows the commission's mental health and ethnicity census, which last year found black people were three times more likely to be admitted to psychiatric hospitals in England and Wales than the rest of the population. Simeon Brody: Community Care 15.11.2006

13. Cathryn Jani – Senior Lecturer in Social Work How Discrimination can be displayed Overt Discrimination Covert Discrimination Use of Language

14. Cathryn Jani – Senior Lecturer in Social Work How are people with disabilities discriminated against? What words are used to describe people with disabilities? How are people with disabilities portrayed in the media? What restrictions does Society place on people with Disabilities?

15. Cathryn Jani – Senior Lecturer in Social Work Legislation that informs anti –discriminatory Practice Disability Discrimination Act 1995 Age Discrimination Act 2006 Disability Equality (amended by DDA) Human Rights Act 1998 Race Relations Act 1976 White Paper: “Our Health, our Care, our say: a new direction for community services. Jan 2006 The Equality Act 2006