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Not all men who engage in same-gender sexual behavior identify as gay, and as such this label should be used with caution. This increase may be related to more than half of the people in 2022 who identify as bisexual being aged 16 to 24 years (53. When working with LGBT people to design selfdirected support plans and deciding how to spend personal budgets, practitioners should keep an open mind about things like social networks and family relations and shouldn’t make assumptions about sexual orientation or gender identity. However, people from LGBT communities are increasingly likely to become more confident and visible as people who use services and carers, often paying for their own care, so care and support services need to be ready to welcome them. The household population excludes people living in communal establishments, with the exception of those in NHS housing and students in halls of residence (sampled via the private households of their parents).

The Equality Act 2010 provides a legal framework which can support personalisation and prohibits discrimination on named grounds. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Variability in year-on-year estimates may be present because of low sample sizes for some groups, resulting in increased variation of confidence intervals associated with the estimates. Frequently LGBT people feel more comfortable accessing services that are either explicitly LGBT friendly or run for and by LGBT people.There is a fear among LGBT people that discrimination could lead to poorer care and support, both in community and residential settings. Lancashire County Council found that the percentage of older and disabled transgender people living in its area was equal to the national average. Any attitude, action, or practice backed by an institutional power that subordinates people because of their sexual orientation. Providing resources to enhance and promote intellectual and personal growth of students to explore and define their complex cultural and intersectional identities. In addition, it found that it had the fourth largest population of LGBT people in England and Wales.

An older lesbian tenant spoke at one of Anchor’s national tenant forum meetings about how she was worried about coming out in her scheme for fear of rejection by other tenants.Students in this community have the opportunity to take a corresponding course that further enriches the student experience. Experimental statistics on sexual orientation in the UK in 2021 and 2022 by region, sex, age, legal partnership status, ethnic group and socio-economic classification, using data from the Annual Population Survey (APS). This involves building community capacity and local strategic commissioning so that people have a good choice of support, including that provided by user-led organisations. In 2019 (publication of the 2017 data), the terminology in this release changed from “sexual identity” to “sexual orientation” to align with legislation ( Equality Act 2010); please see Section 8: Glossary for definitions. We advise users to consult the quality measures when interpreting the estimates because some estimates are based on a relatively small sample.

One of the key ways to address this is practitioner education and training so that staff can challenge discriminatory behaviour by colleagues or people who use services (Ross and Carr 2010).The traditional service-led approach has often meant that people have not been able to shape the kind of support they need, or received the right help.

The estimates are mainly used to provide evidence and to inform the monitoring of the Equality Act 2010, alongside providing estimates of the lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) population for service providers. Sexual orientation estimates have a number of uses, both direct and indirect, informing policy decisions at a national level. LGBT people from different generations or cultural backgrounds may have varying degrees of confidence about being ‘out’ about their sexual identity/orientation or gender identity. Commissioning for personalisation means nurturing the type of peer support, community and voluntary activity that happens in LGBT communities.The project aims to develop services that combat isolation, promote independence and wellbeing and ensure dignity and self-esteem through regular social activities, a telephone advice and signposting service, and a befriending scheme. This means listening, understanding and responding to their unique needs and is at the heart of personalisation. There may be a lack of visibility because LGBT people do not feel comfortable being open about themselves and may fear discrimination. LGBT people don’t necessarily feel they need special treatment, but they don’t want to have to explain or justify their lives or relationships, especially at a time when they may be in crisis or in need of personal care and support.