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Title: MEETING THE NEEDS OF LGBs


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MEETING THE NEEDS OF LGBs
  • Law
  • Working in groups develop action plans
  • Five steps

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EMPLOYMENT ACT (2003)
  • Part One Pride not Prejudice

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SEXUAL ORIENTATION REGULATIONS (2007)
  • Unlawful to discriminate when exercising public
    functions
  • Ensure services do not disadvantage anyone on
    grounds of sexual orientation
  • Ensure employees/agents do not disadvantage
    anyone on grounds of sexual orientation
  • Need to take steps to ensure environment is one
    in which LGB people are able to access services
    as effectively as heterosexuals
  • Staff will need to treat LGB users as courteously
    and professionally as they do other users,
    whatever their own views
  • Commissioners/planners ensure LGBs fair access to
    services they need

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EQUALITY ACT 2010
  • Public Sector Equality Duty
  • April 2011

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149. Public sector equality duty
  • (1) A public authority must, in the exercise of
    its functions, have due regard to the need to
  • (a) eliminate discrimination, harassment,
    victimisation and any other conduct that is
    prohibited by or under this Act
  • (b) advance equality of opportunity between
    persons who share a relevant protected
    characteristic and persons who do not share it
  • (c) foster good relations between persons who
    share a relevant protected characteristic and
    persons who do not share it.

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Continued
  • (2) A person who is not a public authority but
    who exercises public functions must, in the
    exercise of those functions, have due regard to
    the matters mentioned in subsection (1).

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Continued
  • (3) Having due regard to the need to advance
    equality of opportunity between persons who share
    a relevant protected characteristic and persons
    who do not share it involves having due regard,
    in particular, to the need to
  • (a) remove or minimise disadvantages suffered by
    persons who share a relevant protected
    characteristic that are connected to that
    characteristic
  • (b) take steps to meet the needs of persons who
    share a relevant protected characteristic that
    are different from the needs of persons who do
    not share it
  • (c) encourage persons who share a relevant
    protected characteristic to participate in public
    life or in any other activity in which
    participation by such persons is
    disproportionately low.

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Continued
  • (4) The steps involved in meeting the needs of
    disabled persons that are different from the
    needs of persons who are not disabled include, in
    particular, steps to take account of disabled
    persons disabilities.

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Continued
  • (5) Having due regard to the need to foster good
    relations between persons who share a relevant
    protected characteristic and persons who do not
    share it involves having due regard, in
    particular, to the need to
  • (a) tackle prejudice, and
  • (b) promote understanding.

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Continued
  • (6) Compliance with the duties in this section
    may involve treating some persons more favourably
    than others but that is not to be taken as
    permitting conduct that would otherwise be
    prohibited by or under this Act.

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158 Positive action general
  • (1) This section applies if a person (P)
    reasonably thinks that
  • (a) persons who share a protected characteristic
    suffer a disadvantage connected to the
    characteristic,
  • (b) persons who share a protected characteristic
    have needs that are different from the needs of
    persons who do not share it, or
  • (c) participation in an activity by persons who
    share a protected characteristic is
    disproportionately low.

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Continued
  • (2) This Act does not prohibit P from taking any
    action which is a proportionate means of
    achieving the aim of
  • (a) enabling or encouraging persons who share the
    protected characteristic to overcome or minimise
    that disadvantage,
  • (b) meeting those needs, or
  • (c) enabling or encouraging persons who share the
    protected characteristic to participate in that
    activity.

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ACTION PLANS
  • Handout legal requirements
  • In small groups discuss whether you believe your
    agency is meeting its legal requirements
  • List both positive and negative examples
  • How can you change this?
  • Feed back to main group

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Five Simple Steps
  1. Awareness training for all staff and management
    (include specific training on trans issues)
    identifying issues and needs
  2. Ensure policies and procedures up-to-date
    (Equality Impact Assessments Single Equality
    Scheme) and staff are aware of them
  3. Procedures to identify clients assessment of
    needs
  4. Develop specialist programmes/services to meet
    needs and tackle discrimination
  5. Consultation and evaluation

15
Finally
  • Resources www.galyic.org.uk
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