promote the welfare of children within the area. This act aims to resolve disputes between parents and their children. The Act also includes the support of children with disabilities who‚ when they reach the age of 18‚ come under the NHS and Community Care Act 1990. The Children Act also helps those who have custody over the children. ( i.e. If the parent divorce and they do not know who has rights of the child/children.) It promotes anti-discriminatory practice by laying out the final law in regards
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1 Sandra Hanson NC40163 Assignment five Sanmar2010@live.co.uk Health & Social Care 5.1 Analyse the social problems resulting from the availability of cheap alcohol. For a number of reasons the price of alcohol is cheap‚ partly because of the failure of taxes to keep up with inflation and the increased efficiency in producing and distributing of the alcohol. The relaxed control for advertising‚ pricing and promotion has also contributed to the availability of cheap alcohol‚ resulting
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ASSIGNMENT 204 Introduction to duty of care in health‚ social care or children ’s and young people ’s settings Task A Dear friend I have heard that you would like to work as a care worker and need to know more about “duty of care”. I wish to help and want to try clarify the term to you as much as I can. “Duty of care” is a phrase used to describe the obligation in your role as a care worker. You owe duty of care to your patients/service users‚ your colleagues‚ your employer‚ yourself and
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1.1 Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role: A duty of care is a legal obligation imposed on any individual working within the care sector that they adhere to a standard of reasonable care whilst performing any acts that could foreseeable harm others. It is my responsibility that: - Whilst caring for an individual I promote their independency and assist them to understand and exercise their rights. - That I use established processes and procedures to challenge and
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Local policies‚ contracts and agreed ways of working Page 6 – 9 Section 3: Understanding your role in the wider care sector Page 9 – 12 Section 4: Career pathways in the care sector Page 12 – 15 Section 5: Issues of public concern in the care sector Page 16 – 17 Assessment Questions Page 18 – 29 The assessment questions will cover all the criteria for the ERR unit: Understand employment responsibilities and rights in health and social care of the Level 2 Award in ERR. Where criteria
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WHO (1946)‚” good health is a state of complete physical‚ social and mental well-being‚ and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Not only physical health is important but also psychological health‚ and they both are regarded as the essential for social stability. However‚ mental health is not like physical health can be simply diagnosed by physical syndromes and it needs more evaluations so mental health is neglected easily. There is not a doubt that mental health is one of upsetting
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Inclusion in health and social. Diversity‚ Equality and Inclusion. Diversity Diversity is the difference between individuals and groups. This can be the differences in culture‚ nationality‚ ethnic origin‚ religion‚ beliefs‚ sexual orientation‚ gender‚ age‚ social class or abilities. Equality Equality is the promotion of individual’s rights; it is giving the individual choice and opportunity. It is giving the individual respect and treating them fair. As a health and social care worker you
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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 will regularly come across can include: * Information being discussed orally‚ for example in a nursery care setting a care worker discussing/debating with a
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o First Patch. Professional Understanding Collaborative practice (Sadler 2004) is at the forefront of health and social care training. For me‚ like many nursing students‚ the first steps in collaborative practice were the IPL (interprofessional learning) modules at university. This has been described as two or more professions being taught together as away of cultivating collaborative practice (Caipe. 2010). These modules consisted of student nurses studying different fields‚ OT’s‚ radiographers
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Collaborative Practice In our ever changing health care system the need for collaboration is more needed than ever. Collaboration as defined on Wikipedia "is a process defined by the recursive interaction of knowledge and mutual learning between two or more people who are working together‚ in an intellectual endeavor‚ toward a common goal" (Wikipedia‚ 2007). Collaboration is a complex process that requires intentional knowledge sharing and joint responsibility for patient care. Sometimes it occurs
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