| BME |
Black Minority Ethnic – either groups or
individuals. |
| Consultation |
Process by which the council seeks the views of
local residents, employees, individuals and groups. |
| Comprehensive Equality Plan (CEP) |
The council’s commitment to equality and
diversity – divided into three sections: Policy, Plan, Action
Plan which will ensure that all employees and service users receive
fair and equal opportunities. |
| DDA |
Disability Discrimination Act. |
| Direct Discrimination |
Treating on person less favourably than another
on racial grounds. Direct discrimination is unlawful under the Race
Relations Act 1976. |
| Disability |
The Act defines a disabled person as someone with
“a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and
long-term effect on his ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities”. |
| Discrimination |
Where a person is treated less favourably than
another based on their age, disability, gender, race, religion/belief
or sexual orientation etc and it cannot be shown that the treatment
in question was justified |
| Diversity |
The council is committed to celebrating diversity
and recognises that differences are a natural part of society. |
| Ethnic Monitoring |
Collecting and analysing information about people’s
racial or ethnic origins to see whether all groups are fairly represented. |
| Equal Opportunity |
The ethos and practice of giving equal recognition,
access and opportunity to all people without discrimination. |
| Equality Standard for Local Government |
Performance indicator to enable local authorities
to mainstream gender, race and disability equality into council policy
and practices at all levels. |
| Harassment |
Behaviour that affects the dignity of individuals
or groups of people at work. It includes verbal, non-verbal and physical
conduct that could result in unlawful discrimination |
| Heterosexism |
The bias exhibited by society or a community which
assumes and expects that every individual is, lives and behaves as
a heterosexual. |
| Homeless |
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| Homophobia |
The irrational hatred, intolerance and fear of
lesbians, gay men and bisexual people. |
| Impact Assessment |
Process by which policies and functions are assessed
to ascertain whether they have/or not a detrimental affect on an individual
or group of people. Policies and functions may need to be reviewed
in light of the impact assessment. |
| Indirect discrimination |
A rule or condition which applied equally to everyone
can be met by considerably smaller proportion of people from a particular
group; the rule is to their disadvantage; and the condition or rule
cannot be justified on legitimate grounds |
| Institutional discrimination |
The collective failure of an organisation to provide
appropriate and professional service to people on the basis of their
age, disability, gender, race, religion/belief or sexual orientation.
It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes and behaviour which
amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness
and stereotyping which disadvantage people |
| Institutional racism |
The collective failure of an organisation to provide
an appropriate and professional service to people because of their
colour, race or ethnic origin. It can be seen or detected in process,
attitudes and behaviour which amounts to discrimination through unwitting
prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racist stereotyping which
disadvantage minority ethnic. |
| Local Labour Market |
Local authority area working age (16 – 59
women and 16 – 64 men). |
| Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) |
Local partnership designed to develop the local
community strategy, making improvements across the local area, involves
all agencies, public, private and voluntary sectors and community. |
| Mainstream |
Issues are included and recognised into all aspects
of an organisation. |
| Partner Agency |
Other statutory, voluntary or private sector organisation
who works together with the council. |
| Positive Action |
Refers to a number of methods designed to counteract
the effects of past discrimination and helps to eliminate stereotyping. |
| Procurement |
The purchase of goods and services from external
suppliers. |
| Race Equality Scheme |
A statement of intent outlining how the council
at both departmental and at corporate level plans to meet its general
and specific duties under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2001. |
| Racial group |
Group of people defined by their race, colour,
nationality, ethnic or national origins. |
| Racism |
Behaviour, conduct, words or practices which advantage
or disadvantage people because of their colour, culture or ethnic
origin. |
| Racial Harassment |
An unwelcome or hostile act or series of acts
carried out on racial grounds. |
| Racist incident |
Any incident, which is perceived to be racist
by the victim or any other person. It may be perpetrated against individuals
on the basis of their race, colour, nationality, culture, language
or religion. |
| Reasonable adjustments |
The DDA requires employers and service providers
to take reasonable steps to prevent a disabled person from being at
a substantial disadvantage because of any working arrangements or
physical features of the premises. |
| Resident |
A person who lives on the Isle of Wight. |
| Sexual Harassment |
A form of sex discrimination that involves unwelcome
sexual advances, request for sexual favours and other verbal of physical
conduct of a sexual nature. |
| Sexual Orientation |
Everyone has a sexual orientation. Sexual orientation
is a combination of emotional, sexual or affectionate attraction to
another person. The majority of men and women are heterosexual and
they experiences attraction and seek partners of the opposite sex.
Some women and men are homosexual and experience emotional, sexual
and affectionate feelings exclusively towards members of their own
sex – the terms gay (for men and women) and lesbian (for women)
are used today to describe women and men who have the same sex partners.
Other women and men are bisexual and experience emotional, sexual
and affectionate feelings for both their and the opposite sex. |
| Sexuality |
Often and interchangeably with sexual orientation
– however it also describes the sexual nature of every human
being. |
| Transgender |
Transgendered people have the physical characteristics
of one sex and the psychological characteristics of another. Many
transgendered people ‘live’ in their psychological gender,
and may or may not undergo gender reassignment. |
| Victimisation |
The unfair treatment of a person who has made
complaints of discrimination |
| Xenophobia |
Is an irrational fear and contempt of strangers
or foreign people and can be the cause of racist actions and attitudes |
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