Workbased Equality and Diversity Level 2

The course supports students to promote Equality and Diversity in the workplace and the wider community. The course allows the student to gain an understanding of personal and social identities, beliefs, values, stereotyping and labelling, prejudice and discrimination.

This qualification introduces candidates to:

Unit 1 – Exploring equality and diversity

• Key definitions of equality and diversity


• Reflecting upon own situation and local environments


• Stereotyping and labelling and their effects


• Prejudice, discrimination and their effects


• Threats to embedding equality and diversity in the community


• Threats to embedding equality and diversity in the workplace

Unit 2 – Exploring how peoples’ rights and responsibilities are protected at work

• Prejudice and discrimination in the workplace.


• Underpinning prejudice and discrimination through misconceptions


• How to promote equality and diversity in the workplace


• Protections offered by the Human Rights Act 1998


• Supporting the local community through the Human Rights Act 1998

Unit 3 – Working or learning in a place that promotes diversity

• Creating and maintaining equality and diversity in the workplace


• How organisations promote equality and diversity


• Codes of practice and conduct


• Expectations of staff and employers in relation to equality and diversity

Unit 4 – Living in diverse communities

• Investigating a local community’s diversity


• Identifying diversity in the community and maintaining it


• Frameworks and structures to ensure equality and diversity are created and maintained


• Threats which exists to equality and diversity in the community

Successful completion of the training programme and assessment will enable students to understand:

• Employee rights and responsibilities


• Career pathways in Team leading


• Communicating with customers


• Promoting goods and services


• Working as a team.