Promoting equality and diversity of service users in care settingsAssessment Objective 2 What are the bases of discrimination observed at Queenslands? Illustrate the points you make by giving examples.
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TASK 2: Promoting equality and diversity of service users in care settings Assessment Objective 2 What are the bases of discrimination observed at Queenslands? Illustrate the points you make by giving examples. The first discriminatory act that I observed in Queenslands concerns disability discrimination that is carried out by all of the staff, but is explained by Rose Wallace: When Mrs. Campbell asked about sewing name tags into the clothes of the service users as to prevent the garments from being misplaced, Rose proceeded to tell her that this is unnecessary as the people in Queenslands don't know what they're wearing anyway so they just dress them in whatever fits. This is a totally blatant form of negative discrimination against anybody and everybody with any kind of disability, mental or physical. To assume that the service users are unaware of what they are wearing is just ludicrous and it's stereotyping by making the assumption...


