development in adult social care settings Outcome 1 Understanding what is required for good practice in adult social care roles Below is a list of some of the legislations that are relevant to adult social care. These make up ‘standards’ to follow for good practice. Care Standards Act 2000 Domiciliary Care Regulations 2002 Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 GSCC Codes of Practice for social care workers
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chemicals and waste disposal • Security measures and visitors 1.3 Can you advice the responsibilities of‚ you‚ your manager and the individuals you support? In health and safety your responsibilities are: • Take reasonable care of your health and safety • Take reasonable care not to put other people‚ including other employees and members of the public at risk by what you do or don’t do at work • Co-operate with your employer making sure you get proper training and you understand and follow your
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Assignment 204 Task c C1 - Explain what a social care worker must do if they become aware of an unsafe practice. A social worker must report it to their manager‚ senior nurse on charge or their senior carer immediately and corrective measures should be implemented as soon as practically possible to avoid harm or injury. If it involves poor working practise staff must be retrained‚ if they are resource difficulties the employer must provide the adequate resources and a risk assessments must
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From Foster Care to College- Perceptions of Young Adults on Their Academic Success Steve J. Rios‚ Ed.D. Florida Atlantic University‚ USA Abstract: Perceptions of college students‚ all former foster youth‚ regarding influences that impacted their academic attainment are described. Themes involve external interactions and internal influences‚ including a newly identified set of internal characteristics‚ “success strengths‚” that promote college attainment. The Foster Youth Academic Achievement
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PREPARING TO WORK IN ADULT SOCIAL CARE UNIT 2 –Principles of personal development in adult social care settings. OUTCOME 1 Understand what is required for good practice in adult social care roles. 1.1 Identify standards that influence the way adult social care job roles are carried out. Below is a list of some of the legislations that are relevant to adult social care. These make up ‘standards’ to follow for good practice. * Care Standards Act 2000 * Domiciliary Care Regulations
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ultimately govern the depths of our knowledge‚ skills and understanding. In later years‚ the real challenge is putting all of these learnt knowledge and skills in to practice in the working environment. In this case I will be looking at the adult social care settings and the effects of personal experiences‚ past knowledge and current training and how they can influence principles of development. In order to achieve success in any given task or subject‚ it is important to understand what is required
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Outline and evaluate research into the effect of day care on children’s social behaviour (aggression and peer relations). [12marks] Many psychologists have researched into the effect of day care on both aggression and peer relations in children/toddlers. One of those psychologists was Shea (1981) who studied 3-4 year olds who spent a certain amount of days a week in day care for 10 weeks. He discovered that day care does not increase aggression in children as they became more sociable and aggression
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Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care. 1.1 Define the following types of abuse: • Physical abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation‚ injury‚ or other physical suffering or bodily harm. • Sexual abuse is the forcing of undesired sexual behaviour by one person upon another. • Emotional/psychological abuse may involve threats or actions to cause mental or physical harm; humiliation; isolation. • Financial abuse is the illegal
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Page 1 of 2 BAYLHAM CARE CENTRE POLICY No : 01 - 153 JOB DESCRIPTION - CARE ASSISTANT – DAY/NIGHT SHIFT Version 2 Updated October 2012 Reporting to: Ms. Fairburn-Dorai Accountable to: Ms. Vikki Brewer Main Purpose of the Role To effectively assist in the management of the delivery of care support services to older people and to those with a range of disabilities living in the nursing home in accordance with the company’s policies‚ procedures and practices and according to specifications
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Principles of diversity‚ equality and inclusion in adult social care settings. 1. Understand the importance of diversity‚ equality and inclusion. 1.1 Explain what is meant by a) Diversity b) Equality c) Inclusion d) Discrimination Diversity The Oxford dictionary defines diversity as “a range of different things”. Difference is usually meant by this. To recognise diversity is to acknowledge that even though people have things in common‚ one must understand they are unique and different. Many
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