Equal opportunities means treating all people fairly and giving everyone access to the same chances and opportunities regardless of their background or characteristics. The document discusses how equal opportunities applies to housing, education, healthcare, employment, disabled people, and ethnic groups. Specifically, it is important to ensure equal access to public and private housing, education systems that are multicultural, universal healthcare access, diverse and fair employment practices, accessibility for disabled individuals, and integrated treatment of all ethnic groups to avoid problems like racism, conflict, and lack of access to important services and institutions.

1. What does equal opportunities mean?
Equal opportunities is
Research on the internet and find out how equal opportunities applies to:
Equal opportunities applies to The first example has been
housing by completed for you:
Public housing – Greenwich Housing
Association
It is important to have equal
opportunities in housing because
Private housing – Berkeley Homes in
Sometime people don’t get equal
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opportunities to housing because
Equal opportunities applies to By getting everyone treated the
education by same way.
Allowing education to be multi-
cultural
It is important to have equal It’s the right thing to do but also
opportunities in education because being multi- cultural represents the
U.K and what you stand for.
Sometime people don’t get equal Some people cant access education
opportunities to education because because of the country they live in.

2. Equal opportunities applies to Having free health care
healthcare by
It is important to have equal People with different incomes can
opportunities in healthcare because get access to free
healthcare
Sometime people don’t get equal Some country’s don’t have free
opportunities to healthcare because healthcare
Equal opportunities applies to Equal opportunities is employees
employment by asking people applying for
jobs to state there race ,
religion, disability and gender
in order to employ a diverse
work force.
It is important to have equal Because if it wasn’t there would be
employment in employment because a commending race, or the
employment of certain sector
of society would be raised
and living on benefits.
Sometime people don’t get equal People might get a job because they
opportunities to employment know someone not necessarily
because because they are the best
for the job.

3. Pick two groups from the list below. Explain the problems that people
have giving equal opportunities to people in these groups:
• Disabled
• Gender
• LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender)
• Ethnic groups
• Age
Equal opportunities
applies to disabled
by giving the
disabled access, and
dedicated centres
to certain group like
the deaf.
It is important to
have equal
opportunities for
this group because
everyone gets same
opportunities to do
things within the
community, and
because its fair.
The problems
happen when they
don’t have access
they wouldn’t able
to communicate, or
access society

4. Equal opportunities
applies to ethnic
groups by being
treated the same
way, integrated.
It is important to
have equal
opportunities for
this group because
if it wasn’t it could
be seen as racist.
The problems
happen when people
aren’t treated
equally, war and
protests emerge.