Understand how issues of public concern may affect the image and delivery of services in the sector
5.1: identify occasions where the public have raised concerns regarding issues within the sector
Occasions where the public may have raised concerns regarding the sector was on the 10th June 2009 because, nursery worker Vanessa was charged with child abuse and child pornography offences. Vanessa aged 39, from Plymouth, who worked at Little Ted's nursery in Laira, has been charged with seven offences. She has been charged with two counts of sexual assault by penetration, two counts of sexual assault by touching, and one count each of making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children.
This is one occasions where the public should know what’s happening the nurseries around the area they live also this would be in the news because Ofsted would needed to be called into the nursery to see what they can do to tell the public that the nursery to sorting the problems and that action will be taken.
5.2: outline different viewpoints around an issues of public concern relevant to the sector
With Baby P the different viewpoints could be the public's perception of Social Workers making bad mistakes and the Social Workers saying that situations such as this happen because they are overworked with too many cases to deal with.
For example the public changed its view of GPs they felt betrayed - before the incident they were trusted and respected and people were often in awe of them but after they were held in suspicion. GPs also changed their viewpoints - prior to Shipman they were often superior and autocratic but after they became more approachable.
5.3: describe how issues of the public concern have altered public views of the sector
Issues of public concern, hygiene in a hospital not always being of a high standard, frequently mentioned via