Respecting Self, Respecting Others Notes

Mind-map your ideas as to why it might be important to have genuine self-respect before you can respect others effectively.

Is it possible to genuinely respect other people if you don’t respect yourself?

• The British value of mutual respect helps to ensure the safety, rights and responsibilities of all British citizens.
• Boundaries exist – as learnt in the previous lesson – in order for us all to operate and live freely (individual liberty), and with safety.
• Mutual respect helps us all to understand that our own ‘behaviour’ can affect the rights of others and under the rule of law in particular, affect our own rights. 
• Mutual respect limits the potential negative effect of contravening each other’s human rights. 
•  Working together, living together and respecting one another feeds the roots of the British value mutual respect.
• Mutual respect is possibly the ‘foundation’ of all the other British values…

Mutual respect can be effectively upheld when all places of work and learning have an effective anti-bullying policy and strategy. Here are four key reasons for having an effective policy:

1. To eradicate and challenge all forms of discrimination, bullying and harassment.
2. To have a consistent approach to behaviour throughout the school/organisation.
3. To ensure as far as possible that our pupils, staff, parents/carers, governors and service users are free from discrimination, bullying and harassment.
4. To enable us to promote the welfare and safety of all our pupils, staff, parents/carers, governors and service users.

Mutual respect is also effectively upheld through a British piece of legislation called the Equality Act 2010.

• The schools/colleges provision of the Equality Act 2010 prohibits schools/colleges from discriminating against, harassing or victimising prospective pupils, pupils at the school and, in some circumstances, former pupils.
• The Equality Act 2010 defines four types of unlawful behaviour. These are direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, harassment and victimisation.

These are human characteristics that are all equally protected in law, under the Equality Act 2010. There are nine protected characteristics which cannot be discriminated against:

1. age
2. gender
3. gender reassignment
4. race and nationality
5. disability
6. sexual orientation
7. religion, faith, belief and non-belief
8. marriage  and civil partnership
9. pregnancy and maternity

• Is it necessary to have genuine self-respect in order to be able to have mutual respect?
• How does mutual respect become reciprocated respect?
• Can or does mutual respect relate directly to any of the other British values? If yes, which ones? In what way?
• In what ways does the UK benefit from having the British value mutual respect?