Employment rights and responsibilities 1.1 List all the aspect of employment covered by law Anti-discrimination provisions eg gender‚ race‚ disability‚ religion‚ age Working hours and holiday entitlements Sickness absence and sick pay Data protection Health and safety Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks 1.2 List the main features of current employment legislation Employment Rights legislation National Minimum Wage legislation Employment legislation Equalities and Discrimination law Health
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Understand how to handle information in social care settings It is essential that in a social care environment information is collected‚ used and stored correctly. Current legislation requires everyone working in social care to maintain certain records and keep them secure. Most of the information is sensitive and therefore not available to the general public. Information that is sensitive is called Confidential. Examples of confidential records are :- * Care & support Plans * Risk
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Unit D6011696: Support Children and Young People ’s Health and Safety. . Learning Outcome 1: Understand how to plan and provide environments and services that support children and young people’s health and safety. 1.1 In order to ensure a safe and healthy environment and services for children/young people there are some factors which need to be taken into account. These include any equipment which they will be in contact with‚ such as electrical equipment‚ anything which may pose a fire risk
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Explain how current health and safety legislation‚policies and procedures are implemented in own work setting or service. A schools Health and safety policy should conform to the requirements contained in the Health & Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. Specifically the policy should contain :- a) a General Statement of commitment to H&S‚ signed by Head/Chair of Governors or indicating that it has been endorsed by the committee of the Governing Body which has responsibility for H&S; b) details
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Equality and Inclusion in Health‚ Social Care or Children’s and Young People’s Settings Diversity: Diversity literally means difference. Diversity recognises that though people have things in common with each other‚ they are also different and unique in many ways. Diversity is about recognising and valuing those differences. Diversity therefore consists of visible and non-visible factors‚ which include personal characteristics such as background‚ culture‚ personality and work-style in addition
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Understand how to safeguard the well being of children and young people 1.1. Outline current legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures with own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people Children act 1989 The Children Act 1989 was brought about to help keep children safe and well and‚ if necessary‚ help a child to live with their family by providing services appropriate to the child’s needs. The Act imposes a general duty on local councils to provide a range
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gives people the right to confidentiality of personal information. Confidentiality means keeping information given to oneself private and not sharing it with anyone that does not ‘need to know’. In the care setting‚ providing confidentiality requires confirmation that personal and private information belonging to service users cannot be accessed by others. Any information given by a service user should not be disclosed without the service user’s permission. Personal/private information a care setting
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Learning Outcome 2 : Understand how to communicate with children‚ young people and adults. Explain the skills needed to communicate with children and young people. We communicate with people every day‚ but sometimes we do not adjust our communication style to the audience or situation at hand. This can lead to confusion‚ hurt feelings‚ or misunderstandings. Learn how to adapt the way you communicate to different situations by considering the many factors that influence the effectiveness of your
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Unit 2 – Individual Rights in Health and social Care Diversity and equality in society Diversity and equality in our society is based upon community that consist of people from different background. There are many factor that contribute to the diversity and equality of the mainly social mainly * Social * Political * Equality * Biological Social Factors Social factors emphasises values that families hold function together every day. The values are based on their cultural
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UNDERSTANDING HOW TO SAFEGUARD THE WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ASSIGNMENT 026 TASK A Danielle Hall SECTION 1(Ref 1.1)PG1 THE MAIN CURRENT LEGISLATION‚ GUIDELINES‚ POLICIES AND PROCEDURES WITHIN OWN UK HOME NATION FOR SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ARE AS FOLLOWS‚ SAFEGUARDING (Local safeguarding Children Board‚ Children’s Act 1989‚ Protection of Children’s Act 1999‚ The Children’s Act (every child matters 2004) and Safeguarding Vulnerable Group’s Act 2006)‚ Data Protection
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