Explain The Relationship Between Law In Health And Social Care

The Equality act sets out your responsibilities as an employer by treating everyone employee fairly, with dignity and respect. It sets out the personal characteristics that are protected by law and behaviour that is unlawful. It applies to businesses of any size.
Any person or organisation providing goods, facilities or services to the public must make sure that they do what equality law says in relation to:
• The behaviour of staff who are dealing with customers, clients, service users, club members, associate members or guests, or who are taking decisions about how they provide their goods, facilities or services to the public

• The building or other place where the services are delivered, if this is open to the public or a section of

Under the Act people are not allowed to discriminate, harass or victimise another person because they have a ‘protected characteristic’, are perceived to have or are associated with someone who has a protected characteristic.
The Act protects people with a protected characteristic against discrimination when using any service provided publicly or privately, whether that service is for payment or not. This does not necessarily mean that service providers should treat everybody in exactly the same way. In some circumstances a service provider will need to provide services in a different way to meet the needs of people for example by providing single sex services or by making reasonable adjustments for disabled people so that people with different needs can receive the same standard of service as far as possible.
The behaviour of staff who work for you towards customers, clients, service users, members, associates or guests is important for your business. Staff may require training or guidance on the best approach to dealing with customers or service users etc, so that they do not