Duty of Care 1.1 The term duty of care refers to the duties and responsibilities that someone in charge and authority has to those they are caring for. In the area of childcare and early years‚ teachers‚ nursery workers and other care workers have a duty of care to the children they are looking after and are responsible for. There is a general definition for duty of care as well as different definitions in greater detail. For example moral and legal duties of care. Legal duty of care is where
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The Duty of Care Policy in Western Australia for Primary School’s INTRODUCTION: A Brief Outline The policy that will be examined is the Duty of Care policy . The purpose of this report is to analyse the Duty of Care policy of the Western Australian Department of Education.. This policy will be discussed in the context of the Local Primary school in Western Australia. Three scenarios will be illustrated in relation to the Duty
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SHC34-1 Duty of care is to keep children and young people safe and to protect them from sexual‚ physical and emotional harm. Children have a right to be safe and to be treated with respect and dignity. We as adults must take reasonable steps to ensure the safety and well being of children. Failure to do this could be regarded as professional neglect. Always act in the child’s best interests. Follow the correct procedures if you have any concerns for the child’s well being‚ set clear boundaries
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Duty of care and mandatory reporting are two areas in child protection and juvenile justice that must be considered when working with young people as they could be your legal obligation. What is duty of care? Who do you owe duty of care too? What is mandatory reporting? When should you report a situation? Duty of care is giving reasonable care to individuals you work with‚ co-workers‚ and the general public to protect them from risks of harm that could happen. The measure of reasonable care depends
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Duty of care 1.1 1. Protect the rights and promote the interests of individuals‚ key people and others. 2. Strive to establish and maintain the trust and confidence of individuals‚ key people and others. 3. Promote the independence of individuals while protecting them as far as possible from danger or harm. 4. Respect the rights of individuals while seeking to ensure that their behaviour does not harm themselves‚ key people or others. 5. Uphold public trust and confidence in health and social care
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‘Duty of care’ means that as a carer you have the responsibility to do everything you can to keep the service users safe from harm. As a community support worker it is my duty of care to ensure the service users needs and well being are well look after. I respect the individual‚ including keeping them from harm‚ any abuse that may occur or anything that may result in a injury to themselves. I also have to respect their choices which they may have. It is my duty that i conduct my job in a safe and
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Unit SHC24 duty of care Denise Keable Outcome 1 1.1 duty of care n. a requirement that a person act toward others and the public with watchfulness‚ attention‚ caution and prudence that a reasonable person in the circumstances would. If a person’s actions do not meet this standard of care‚ then the acts are considered negligent‚ and any damages resulting may be claimed in a lawsuit for negligence. Taken from The Free Dictionary by Farlex 2. I need to ensure that I take into consideration
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Duty of care is the legal obligation that reasonable care must be taken to avoid acts with a reasonably foreseeable outcome of injuring another person. The concept of ‘duty of care’ was first recognised in Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 where it was established that a duty of care is created via proximity‚ or a relationship between the defendant and the plaintiff. This is known as the ‘neighbour principle’ ‚ which relies on combination of proximity and a reasonably foreseeable risk of harm
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Major Assignment: Directors’ Duties Case Part A: Whether the directors are in breach of their duties of care‚ skill and diligence Issue1: who owes the duty? According to S 9‚ the person who is appointed to be a director or the person who is appointed to be an alternate director and is acting in that capacity‚ is a director of the company. (S9) As we can see from the case‚ Peter Pansy‚ Fred Fuchsia and Marie Gold are directors of the company‚ and Alison Astor who is appointed to fill a casual
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is through the doctrine of the duty of care.Essentially‚this is a legal concept which dictates the circumstances in which one party will be liable to another in negligence.Breach of a duty of care essentially means that the defendant has fallen below the standard of behavior expected in someone undertaking the activity concerned ‚so for example‚ driving carelessly is a breach of the duty owed to the road users‚while bad medical treatment may be breach of the duty owed by doctors to patients.In each
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