Like employers, service providers should take steps to provide accommodation for service recipients who have caregiving needs.Įxample: When a student’s child falls gravely ill just before a final examination, the education provider agrees to defer the examination until the child has recovered. Where, as a result of inaccessible design or stroller bans, persons with small children are not able to access a service, this may amount to a violation of the Code. Rules that ban or restrict stroller access pose barriers to families, particularly for parents who have disabilities and cannot carry their small children. Families with young children in strollers, for example, will have difficulty in accessing buildings with many stairs and heavy doors. However, because the specialized transit provider does not permit her to travel with her child, she finds she has no means of accessing either the childcare service or her healthcare appointment.įamilies with young children, like persons with disabilities and older persons, face challenges from physically inaccessible buildings, and would benefit from barrier removal and inclusive design. Needing to visit a health care provider, she arranges to drop her child off at a childcare centre.
Inclusive design should take into account that families may include persons who have disabilities, are LGBT, or are from various cultural communities.Įxample: A parent with a disability is reliant on specialized transit services for transportation. Recreational facilities can provide family changerooms. Education providers can provide options for day or evening programs, leave of absence options, and quality distance education alternatives.
Bar access of parent to child install#
Public facilities should install change tables in washrooms, both male and female, so that parents are not left in an awkward dilemma when taking their infants for an outing. Service providers can take steps to make their services more inclusive of families. The law school agrees to provide a short-term leave of absence however, when the leave is over, and the mother is still ill, the student is forced to drop out of school because part-time studies are not available. One prevalent source of discrimination against families is the failure to design services in ways that include them.Įxample: A law school student’s mother is diagnosed with cancer. Inclusive Design and the Duty to Accommodate Due to the hospital rules, her son’s partner can only visit her by pretending to be another of her sons. When she is in the final stages of her illness, she is admitted to the hospital. Services ordinarily available to families may be denied to them or only accessed with difficulty.Įxample: A gay man and his partner have cared for his mother for years. This is particularly true for foster families and LGBT families. Similarly, some families may have difficulty in obtaining recognition from service providers that they are “real” families. These families may find themselves subjected to unwarranted scrutiny, denied services, or subjected to harassment when seeking services.Įxample: A social service provider tells an Aboriginal lone mother that she is just having babies to get money from the system, and subjects her to an extra audit of her compliance with program rules. For example, female-headed lone parent families are heavily stigmatized, particularly when they are racialized or Aboriginal, or are in receipt of social assistance. Negative Attitudes and Stereotypesĭiscrimination on the basis of family status in the area of services often arises because of negative perceptions regarding children, or regarding specific types of families. This includes, but is not limited to, educational institutions, hospitals, public transit services, social services, public places like malls and parks, and stores and restaurants.
Bar access of parent to child code#
Section 1 of the Code prohibits discrimination on the basis of family status in services, goods and facilities.
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