Intro Quiz: How far have we made progress on equality in the UK?

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﻿Hi, I'm Mr Arnott, Welcome to lesson five out of six in the scheme of work called, "Are all people treated equally in UK society?" Today's lesson is all about, how far have we made progress on equality in the UK? All you need for today's lesson is a pen and paper, and somewhere quiet to work. There's also a worksheet attached to today's lesson, which is really, really important. So lots of video clips of that that are attached to some of the tasks. The lesson today, we're going to look at some areas around sexual orientation and discrimination. This is quite a sensitive subject. So it might be a good idea to talk to a trusted adult before you start today's lesson, or have a trusted adult nearby. So I'm just going to give you a moment, just to pause the video and get all of that ready, and then we'll make a start. So what we're going to look at in this lesson is we're going to look at what types of inequality exist in UK society. We're going to look at two case studies, one about disability, and one about sexual orientation. As I just mentioned, the case that's about sexual orientation is an incredibly sensitive topic area. And it involves somebody being incredibly discriminated against because of their sexual orientation and then that person eventually took their own life. As I've just mentioned, it would be a very good idea to talk to a trusted adult before you do today's lesson, before we go any further in today's lesson or have a trusted adult nearby, okay? We're also going to look at how far have we made progress towards equality in the UK. So let's make a start. So, is discrimination still happening? That's the first thing that we're going to look at. First task is, what types of inequality are you aware of in the UK? So what I would like you to do is complete a mind map. So pause this video, complete a mind map about all the different types of inequality that you are aware of. Excellent, so hopefully you've had a really good go at getting that task. So these are the answers I got. Types of inequality can be based around disability, ageism, racism, and sexism. You might even have some more like xenophobia, so inequality and treating people differently from the country they've come from and things like that. But that's just a few examples there, just to get you thinking about today's lesson. That leads us straight into the next task, and you're going to need the worksheet that I talked about right at the start, you've got to complete that. So watch clip one in the worksheet and make notes about the points below. So watch the video clip, it's on slide three of the worksheet. So click next activity to access the worksheet. And the two things I want you to make notes on, is two ways in which the UK has become fairer and two ways that there is still inequality in the UK. So I'll give a moment to pause the video and go on to do that and we'll come back together. Brilliant, so hopefully you've gone and watched the video and you've got similar notes to what I've got here. So feedback is for the first question. There's more people in work, better education, and there's more people engaging in politics. Also, the challenges for disabled people are increasing. For example, disabled children, not able to access mainstream school. Disabled people, more likely to live in poverty. So ethnic minority groups are falling behind in living standards and how, for example, half of British-Pakistani, British-Bangladeshi and British Black-African children live in poverty. So some really interesting and quite shocking statistics there. What we're going to look at now in the next case study is disability discrimination. So disabled people are significantly more likely to experience unfair treatment at work than non-disabled people. In 2008, 19% of disabled people experienced unfair treatment at work, compared to 13% of non disabled people. Around a third of disabled people experience difficulties related to their impairment in accessing public, commercial and leisure goods and services. And that leads us into another task with Adi talking about what happened with him. So watch task, clip two in the worksheet and answer the below. So how did Adi use the law to protect his rights? So pause this video, go and find that video clip in the worksheet, and then we'll all come back together, and we'll look at the answer. Fantastic. So hopefully you've got some really interesting notes and some really interesting things about what Adi talked about. And I find that video really, really interesting. So we're going to look at another case study now on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. As I've already told you, the text and the content of this is incredibly sensitive. So if you've not already done so, go and talk to a trusted adult or make sure a trusted adult is nearby before we go any further, because this case study, the person involved, ends up taking their own life. So it might be an issue to talk to a trusted adult about before we go any further. How has the law changed to help society deal with the complex problem of discrimination. And that person there is Alan Turing. Alan Turing is an English computer scientist and mathematician. Arguably one of the, pretty much a hero, seen as a hero, in in Britain 'cause he was one of the first computer scientists, and a lot of the way things he did about coding are still used today. During the Second World War, he worked for the Government Code and Cypher School Bletchley Park, which was Britain's code breaking centre. He played a pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many critical engagements. It was estimated that his work shortened the war in Europe by more than two years and saved over 14 million lives. So you look at what he achieved, really, really impressive, a hero, heroic, what he did. There's not really any other words to say, the amount of lives he saved, the amount of work and things that he did was, is fantastic. What happened to him after the Second World War is the bit that we're going to look at now. So Alan Turing was gay. In 1952, he was prosecuted for having a same-sex relationship because at that time it was still a criminal act. He accepted the treatment of chemical castration as an alternative to prison. He died just before his 32nd birthday, 42nd birthday, when he took his own life. His family campaigned to overturn his prosecution, but that took until 2013 for him to be pardoned. And the pardon he was given is a post, is a pardon that he was given after his death and they're quite rare, but that took a long time to happen. So how has law in the UK changed to try and remove this form of discrimination from society? And this is really important and we're going to use this in a task later. So you might want to take some notes here or just making notes at the time, so you can go back in a little bit. I'll go through all of these. So there's Sexual Offences Act of 1967, which decriminalised homosexual acts in private between two men if they are both over 21. There's the Human Rights Act of 1998, which brought European Convention on Human Rights into UK law, and this paved the way for the Gender Recognition Act of 2004, which included the right to private and family life, and for the first time, gave legal recognition to trans people. There was the Marriage Act which legalised same-sex marriage in 2013. There was the Adoption and Children Act in 2002, which removed the criteria that an application had to made by a married couple and which allowed single people and homosexual people to apply. There was the Civil Partnership Act in 2004, which allowed same-sex couples to obtain, essentially, the same rights and responsibilities as civil marriage. For example, property, pension benefits and the ability to get parental responsibility for a partner's children. There's the Criminal Justice and Public order Act of 1994, Which lowered the age of consent for gay men from 21 to 18 and in 2001 it was lowered to 16. Why is 16 significant? I'll give you a second to think about that. Sixteen was significant because that is the same age as heterosexual acts. So brought it, made it completely equal, and made it the same. In 2013 Alan Turing was posthumously pardoned. This means he was pardoned after he died. In 2017 in a new law came to cause. It was referred to as the Alan Turing Law, it's official name is the Policing and Criminal Crime-- Sorry about that, apology about that. It's official name is the Policing and Crime Bill, it acts as an apology for all those convicted of consensual same-sex relationships before homosexuality was decriminalised in England and Wales in 1967. This means that men who were cleared of those offences have now been cleared. and then . And then there's the Equality Act of 2010 which identifies sexual orientation as a protected characteristic group. So people are protected against that discrimination. As I said, that's , you're going to use this in the next task. So it might be important to maybe make a note of these things, now. What I would like you to do, and using the statements that we've just looked at, complete a living graph to show how far the law has changed to protect the rights of the LGBT community. Okay, so you need to think about are they positive changes, are they negative changes? And use all those statements that we've just looked at, and plot them along this graph. Just to give you an example, I've added the Equality Act of 2010 towards the top of my living graph as it was a very positive change. Sexual orientation is now a protected characteristic. So what I'd like you to do is just pause the video and try and plot all of those changes on here. Fantastic, so hopefully you've had a good go at doing that task. It's quite a tricky task and hope you'd be able to use that task into the final task. So the last task I want you to do is, what change from your living graph do you feel is the most important, and I want you to explain why. Okay, so why did you think that was the most important? There's a bit of a challenge question here as well. So do you think the LGBT, LGBTQ+ community in the UK are now treated equally? What is your evidence? You might be able to use these hints, which is human rights, the pardon for Alan Turing and the law on same-sex marriage. Just to give you a little bit of a help on that one. How has the law helped reduce discrimination for LGBTQ people in the UK? Some sentence starters here for you, if you feel like you need it. So some introductions could be, the law has helped society deal with the discrimination of... In the past the law was... Changes that have been made include... This has resulted in...and the impact of these changes. A bit of a hint there at the bottom for you, include Alan Turing in your answer, and at least one law that shows changes that have been made to the law in the UK. So again, if you need the sentence starters, just make note of it. There are the two questions for you. So what I would like you to do is pause the video here, have it go at answering those for me. There are the two questions, and there are some scaffolding for you, so just pause the video here now. Great, so hopefully you've had a good go at completing that part, so this is the feedback. So from my living graph, I would choose the Equality Act of 2010. This is because from this point onward, sexual orientation became a protected characteristic in the UK and LGBTQ+ people are now offered protection from discrimination. The second one is, I feel the LGBTQ+ community are now treated more equally in the UK. The laws have changed significantly over time to get LGBTQ+ people greater rights and protection. For example, the Human Rights Act of 1919 paved the way for the Gender Recognition Act of 2004, which included the right to private and family life, and for the first time, gave legal recognition to trans people. This further led to same-sex couples obtaining, essentially, the same rights and responsibilities of a civil marriage with the Civil Partnership Act. Hopefully you've had a good go at that task, it's quite a tricky task. Great, that takes us back to the end of today's lesson. So what we've looked at today, right at the start we looked at what types of inequality exist in the UK today. We looked at some examples, hopefully you might be able to identify a few more. We looked at two case studies. We looked at disability and we looked at sexual orientation. We looked at how far have we made progress towards equality in the UK. We've looked at lots of the laws trying to make sexual orientation equal in the UK. That brings us to the end of our lesson. So, obviously, that writing task was really tricky, and I would really, really like to see some of your examples of it. So if you would like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Twitter, tagging in @oaknational, with the hashtag #LearnwithOak. As always thank you for all your hard work today, and I will see you in our final lesson next time.

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In this lesson, we are going to look at the progress that has been made towards equality in the UK. The lesson contains some content about same sex relationships. If this is a sensitive topic to you, we recommend checking with a trusted adult before starting or doing the lesson with a trusted adult nearby.

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