Incontinence & Equality issues
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 5:01 pm
Hi all
I was wondering if any forum members are able to help me out, please.
I work for an adult social care provider, providing personal care support to people in their own home. I am working on a Supporting Continence policy for our work and an Equalities Analysis that supports it - this used to be known as an Equality Impact Assessment and aims to understand the impact that an activity may have on different types of people. I can find information and research regarding 'disability' and incontinence (e.g. in short, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, a person experiencing incontinence may be considered 'disabled' and so should not be discriminated against under that protected characteristic), but not much else regarding the other protected characterisitics - race, gender, sexual orientation, gender re-assignment, age, religion/belief, pregnany/maternity, marriage & civil partnership.
Is anyone aware of good EA work or statistics in this area and could point me in the right direction, please?
(I'm beginning to suspect that I can't find much research or EAs out there because not much as been done, but want to make sure.)
thanks
I was wondering if any forum members are able to help me out, please.
I work for an adult social care provider, providing personal care support to people in their own home. I am working on a Supporting Continence policy for our work and an Equalities Analysis that supports it - this used to be known as an Equality Impact Assessment and aims to understand the impact that an activity may have on different types of people. I can find information and research regarding 'disability' and incontinence (e.g. in short, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, a person experiencing incontinence may be considered 'disabled' and so should not be discriminated against under that protected characteristic), but not much else regarding the other protected characterisitics - race, gender, sexual orientation, gender re-assignment, age, religion/belief, pregnany/maternity, marriage & civil partnership.
Is anyone aware of good EA work or statistics in this area and could point me in the right direction, please?
(I'm beginning to suspect that I can't find much research or EAs out there because not much as been done, but want to make sure.)
thanks