{"id":809,"date":"2022-12-13T20:54:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/?page_id=809"},"modified":"2023-06-07T10:15:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T09:15:46","slug":"1-8-6-ensuring-equality-of-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/?page_id=809","title":{"rendered":"1.8.6 Ensuring Equality of Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2010\/15\/contents\">Equality Act (2010)<\/a> makes it unlawful to discriminate against individuals on the basis of the following \u2018protected characteristics\u2019, as defined in the Act: age, gender (including gender reassignment), disability, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy &amp; maternity, marriage &amp; civil partnership.<\/p>\n<p>It is also a fundamental principle that all adults have the right to be protected from abuse or neglect.<\/p>\n<p>This right is underpinned by the duty placed on public agencies under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/1998\/42\/contents\">Human Rights Act (1998)<\/a> to intervene proportionately to protect the rights of citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Equality of opportunity means that all adults have the opportunity to receive the same care and safeguards in relation to abuse or neglect regardless of being\/having any of the protected characteristics listed above.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the safeguarding process should aim to take into account each adult\u2019s unique individuality and avoid discrimination on the basis of the protected characteristics listed above.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"page\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1670964896\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"1.8.6 Ensuring Equality of Opportunity\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Equality Act (2010) makes it unlawful to discriminate against individuals on the basis of the following \u2018protected characteristics\u2019, as defined in the Act: age, gender (including gender reassignment), disability, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy &amp; maternity, marriage &amp; civil partnership. It is also a fundamental principle that all adults have the right to be protected from abuse or neglect. This&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-809","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/809\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderlandsab.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}