I respect others
In our Living and Learning session this week, we have explored an important and powerful topic – discrimination.
Discrimination is treating someone less favourably, or applying a rule that unfairly disadvantages them, because of a “protected characteristic” such as age, disability, race, religion, or sex.
We spent time revisiting the Equality Act 2010. This is in place to help protect people from discrimination and ensures that protected characteristics are always respected. The protected characteristics are:
- Disability
- Race
- Sex
- Gender reassignment
- Religion or beliefs
- Age
- Marriage or civil partnership
- Pregnancy and maternity
- Sexual orientation
Help at Home: Ask your child to name the protected characteristics and describe what each one means. Ask them who is responsible for ensuring they are respected and followed. Can they think of any examples where protected characteristics have/have not been upheld?