The Laws, Act And Regulations

For the home country England there are many policies and procedures within the legislation that relate to safeguarding human rights, data protection and confidentiality. These have been refined into every school policy and procedures such as the human rights act 1998/2004, children act 1989/2004 and the data protection act 1998.

On October 1st 2010, the Equality Act came into force. This consolidated and strengthened the previous equality laws. This act prevents children and their families from being discriminated, victimised or harassed because of their age, sex, race, religion or disability. Through this act each child, whether already in the setting, or applying through admissions, will be treated in a fair and equal way, with aims for all children to have reasonable provisions to allow them to access all educational areas. Although a school is not expected to make adjustments that are not reasonable, they are expected to make general adjustments, reasonably planned within the school’s approach to planning for SEN children. The Equality Act 2010 outlines four definitions of discrimination, direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, discrimination arising from a disability and harassment and victimisation. This allows school settings to have clearer expectations and implement them. The Equality Act 2010 and the Discrimination Disability Act (DDA) (2005) both aim to ensure each and every child has access to a broad and balanced academic and social curriculum. Following this code of practice in a school, confirms that all members of staff provide the same high-quality teaching to children, as well as displaying professional behaviour.

The education act is based towards the school responsibilities towards children with special educational needs. It means schools must provide resources, equipment and extra support to meet the needs of any children. The disability act places a duty on schools to encourage children to participate in all different areas of school life free from harassment and discrimination. It also eliminates barriers to make sure that children can have equal

The disability discrimination act focuses on discrimination regarding disabilities and states “An education provider must not discriminate against a student because of something that is a consequence of heir disability” (directgov.co.uk/en/disabledpeople/educationandtraining/dg_4001076) Meaning that schools should ensure that staff do not discriminate against students who have disabilities and should plan activities that are suitable for everyone or amend the current activity so that the person with those particular needs can do it too. Even if it is when handing out worksheets you hand one in Braille for those who are sight impaired or altering a game so that those who are movement handicapped can join in. Or even as simple as handing out different snacks that everyone can enjoy at snack time.

In order to maintain the quality and high customer satisfaction rate in many service provisions, managing complaint is the essential part which makes no exemption in health and social care setting. There are many statutory frameworks, code of practice and guidance regulating the service provision in health and social care setting.

I can identify the polices and legislation designed to promote inclusion, human rights of individuals with learning disabilities and of their citizenship and equal life chances i.e. National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990; Disability Discrimination Act 2005; Equality Act 2010; Disability Equality Duty 2006.

* Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 – Makes it unlawful for educational providers to discriminate against pupils with a special educational need or a disability.

Public bodies, including further education institutions, local authorities, maintained schools, maintained nursery schools, academies and free schools are covered by the public sector equality duty and, when carrying out their functions, must have regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, promote equality of opportunity and foster good relations between disabled and non-disabled children and young people. Public bodies also have specific duties under the public sector equality duty and must publish information to demonstrate their compliance with this general duty. Objects must be specific and measurable. The general duty also applies to bodies that are not public bodies but that carry out public functions. Such bodies include providers of relevant early years education, non-maintained special schools, independent specialist providers and others making provision that is funded from the public

This act bought together a range of anti-discrimination acts to protect people, children and young people against discrimination for having a disability, the colour of their skin or their gender.

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Robert’s rights to inclusion is reinforced by the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (2001) which gave Robert the right to attend mainstream school and to be educated alongside his peer (Thomas and Vaughan, 2005). The Act strengthened further the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) which makes discrimination again Robert unlawful. The United Nation Convention on the Right of the Child Article 23, highlights that a child with a disability should have effective access to and receive an education ( Jones , 2004) Tassoni (2003) underlined that The Children Act (1989) spelled out the idea that all children have rights. It required protecting all children, but also highlighting the needs and rights of vulnerable children. As with Robert, he is a child in need and as such the school and LEA has legal duties to make sure that Robert is achieving within society.

The CIA, being a chartered organization, must operate within the realms of certain regulations and legal requirements. These are to ensure that it does not overstep its mandate and mission of conducting the intelligence operations that it has been tasked with of correcting Canadian detainees’ torture in Afghanistan. However, given that the CIA is not a law enforcement organization, it operates within certain realms legally. It cooperates within the set guidelines with other counterterrorism and counterintelligence agencies, such as the FBI, to ensure that the law is maintained.

Similarly, stated in Human Rights Act 1998 Article 14 that individual should not be discriminated against in the delight of the other rights and all the freedoms and rights which have been set out in the act must be protected and applied without discrimination. (The Human Rights Act and learning Disabilities, 2000-2016). The rights supports to ensure that people with disabilities are not discriminated against because of their disability, in all aspects of life, including healthcare, job opportunities, the right to independent living, the right to services and support in the community. Discrimination can happen if someone treated unfavourably than another individual who is in a similar situation and this treatment cannot be objectively and reasonably

The competition policy that will impact the business is the Competition Act 1998. There are two main United Kingdom (UK) laws to protect the competition which is known as the Competition Act 1998 and also the Enterprise Act 2002. The Competition Act 1998 is one of the main source of competition policy where it gives the business a modernize plan to identify and compromise with the restriction of business practices and the abusing of the dominant position in the market. The purpose of this act allows to harmonize the competition policy between the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU) competition policy. This act promotes to competing fairly in the marketplace by prohibiting the anti-competitive behavior that occur between businesses.

According to the children Act (1989) and the disability discrimination act (1995) the definition of special educational needs (SEN) is when a child is abnormal if he is visually impaired, dumb, deaf, injuries, or suffers from a mental disorder or any other type of illnesses. The definition of a child having disability according to the act is if he or she has been diagnosed with long term physical or mental impairment therefore struggling to do the day to day tasks. Both of the acts are provided for schools to meet the child’s responsibilities with SEN, and also help the teachers to meet the needs for disabled children.