The document discusses equal opportunities in housing, education, healthcare, and employment. It explains that equal opportunities aims to provide fair access regardless of factors like disabilities, age, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. However, certain groups sometimes face barriers in getting equal access. For example, people with disabilities or the elderly may experience difficulties finding suitable housing, and ethnic or religious minorities could face discrimination in the job market. The document also notes the importance of equal access to basic human rights and services like education, healthcare, and employment opportunities.

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 helping people with completed for you:
disabilities or old age.
Public housing – Greenwich Housing
Association
It is important to have equal
opportunities in housing because its
basic human rights to have a roof
over our heads.
Private housing – Berkeley Homes in
Woolwich Arsenal
Sometime people don’t get equal
opportunities to housing because
age, disabilities or ethnicity.
Equal opportunities applies to
education by giving a free
education, there is also a school in
witch you have to pay for a better
education.
It is important to have equal
opportunities in education because
its basic human rights to have an
education.

2. Sometime people don’t get equal
opportunities to education because
sometimes people get excluded.
This means that they don’t get an
education.
Equal opportunities applies to
healthcare because it is free to use
the NHS.
It is important to have equal
opportunities in healthcare because
you don’t have to pay for
treatment, which means that
anyone who is sick can be seen.
Sometime people don’t get equal
opportunities to healthcare because
people with cancer have to go on a
waiting list.
Equal opportunities applies to
employment because if somebody is
disabled they won’t get the right
treatment.
It is important to have equal in
employment becauseotherwise it
might be discrimination.
Sometime people don’t get equal
opportunities to employment
because they don’t look the way the
interviewer wants them to.

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 News article or supporting evidence
ethnic groups because people might - newspaper or website
be discriminated against because address
they are different. - a quote to support your point
It is important to have equal
opportunities for this group
because they are a smaller portion
in the UK and need protection.
The problems happen when there
might not be enough jobs for
people, and they might be
discriminated for job there are.
Equal opportunities applies to age News article or supporting evidence
If you are too old they might think - newspaper or website
you are incapable. address
- a quote to support your point
It is important to have equal
opportunities for this group
because they might be
discriminated against.
The problems happen whenyoub
have don’t have enough staff to

4. look after the elderly people who
need care.