Vision2learn Equality and Diversity Assessment 3

**littletreasures** · 20-06-2011, 01:56 PM

Hi started to do this course online. I have done Assessment 1 and then we have to do Assessment 3.

I am finding it so hard. I can't answer any of the questions.

For example:Prepare a short report on how your chosen place of work / study promotes (communicates) policies and practices for equality and diversity to employees and external stakeholders (such as customers and the community). Provide specific examples

and
Describe the organisation’s punishments or sanctions for any breech in the policies / codes of practice / guidelines where equality and diversity are concerned.

I have been minding for 21 years so am not familiar with any other workplace to be able to use instead.

Anyone got any ideas how to answer the questions?

**Mouse** · 20-06-2011, 01:57 PM

Do you use a children's centre at all? Could you do it based on that?

**littletreasures** · 20-06-2011, 02:15 PM

No, Childminder's aren't allowed to use the Children's Centres here

**sarah707** · 20-06-2011, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by littletreasures

Hi started to do this course online. I have done Assessment 1 and then we have to do Assessment 3.

I am finding it so hard. I can't answer any of the questions.

For example:Prepare a short report on how your chosen place of work / study promotes (communicates) policies and practices for equality and diversity to employees and external stakeholders (such as customers and the community). Provide specific examples

External stakeholders are parents so just talk about how you share your policies and procedures with parents.

You could talk about how a parent has asked questions or given you suggestions which feed into your diversity policy or how parents have supported you in a themed equality activity you have run with the children.

and
Describe the organisation’s punishments or sanctions for any breech in the policies / codes of practice / guidelines where equality and diversity are concerned.

Does your equality of opportunity policy or welcome booklet talk about how you welcome all children to the provision and support children and their families to be aware of similarities as well as differences?

You could extend that to say how children are not punished or given sanctions for breaching the policies... they are supported and helped to understand through a series of planned and free play opportunities which include using eg cooking utensils from around the world...

I have been minding for 21 years so am not familiar with any other workplace to be able to use instead.

Anyone got any ideas how to answer the questions?

I suggest you think out of the box a bit and bend the questions to what you know and how you work. They are not 'one size fits all'.

If your tutor isn't happy s/he should then give you another direction / angle for them

**rickysmiths** · 20-06-2011, 06:09 PM

Surely you base it on your place of work. That is what we have to do for the CYPW course.

So it would be your Policies and Proceedures. How do you show them to parents (your clients) in a Parent folder which they can borrow before they sign a Contract. Then they sign to say they have read and a gree to them and you give them their own set.

If you work with an assistant how do you share them with them.

What do you do if a parent or assistant doen't follow the policies? Talk to them, write to them, warnings for an assistant?

**Louise317** · 20-06-2011, 06:17 PM

arh I've just been accepted on this course and due to start tomorrow...

Can't help you littletreasures but good luck x

**venus89** · 20-06-2011, 06:23 PM

I work in a Children's Centre too so mine was based on that. For the short report I wrote about how the manager makes sure all staff read the P&Ps and how I as creche leader make sure my staff do (eg temp staff). So for CMing how do you share policies with parents, children, others who work with you, network people, ofsted....? I wrote about the manager asking us to do spcific training - what training do you do? How do you communicate this to others? How do you communicate changes in your ploicies or in legislation? How do you know there have been changes? When might you need to change them? (eg if there was an incident) I then wrote about how we chare the policies with families - in the Centre's case brief notes of some are on display (eg having a no smacking policy) and details on how to see the full version available.

For the next question I was a bit cheeky and pointed out that breech refers to birth, and they might mean breach..... I wrote this:
"The Children’s Centre aims to create an environment where all people are equally welcome, valued and treated. Failure to do so, towards employees, potential employees, volunteers or centre users (or through advertising, eg by deliberately or accidentally excluding some people from certain activities) would result in certain sanctions.

For a more minor offence, such as a flyaway comment by a service user or staff member, a verbal warning and a chat from the manager (or, in the Creche, from me as the crèche leader, although I would pass any concerns on to the manager too) and further monitoring of behaviour would suffice. However, for more serious breaches (NB ‘breech’, as in the question above, refers to the lower part of the human trunk, hence ‘breech birth’ – it may be an idea to suggest that gets changed!) and in policy, codes of practice or guidelines disciplinary action may be required, such as being asked to leave the centre on a temporary or even permanent basis, equally relevant to staff or centre users.

Serious breaches may also result in legal action being taken against the perpetrator."

I copied and pasted it as it's not going to be transferrable to a CM setting but gives you an idea of what you could put. My tutor was happy with both answers.

HTH and good luck!

BuggsieMoo · 20-06-2011, 06:29 PM

Send me your email address - ive done this course and passed it with vision to learn and can send you my notes x

**littletreasures** · 20-06-2011, 07:34 PM

Thanks ladies

I really wasn't thinking outside the box at all.

I looked at the questions and thought I can't do that and panicked.

You've given me some good ideas and hopefully will be able to complete it now.

**zippy** · 20-06-2011, 07:36 PM

i can't belive childminders are not allowed to the childrens centre, thats disgusting, i would put a complaint in about that its complete discrimination, what if mum works full time its not fair on the child, i'd be going mad if ours did that, lucky they are lovely even helping us set up a chilminding group.

**littletreasures** · 20-06-2011, 07:46 PM

Believe me we have complained and complained.

We even took it to the local newspaper. We said they were discriminating against the children, especially as a couple of us have children with disabilities.

No joy though

**rickysmiths** · 20-06-2011, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by zoerhymes

i can't belive childminders are not allowed to the childrens centre, thats disgusting, i would put a complaint in about that its complete discrimination, what if mum works full time its not fair on the child, i'd be going mad if ours did that, lucky they are lovely even helping us set up a chilminding group.

Ours is the same. Its quite common.