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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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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EverGreen Academy QCF Diploma Health & Social Care level 2 Unit: CU2470 Handle Information in Health and Social Care Settings Knowledge Questions Competent practice is a combination of the application and skills and knowledge informed by values and ethics. These questions detail the knowledge and understanding required in carrying out competent practice in the performance described in the unit Learner Name: Laeticia Belle Assessor: Date: 1. Identify the legislation that
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Background Problem alcohol use is common among illicit drug users and is associated with adverse health outcomes. It is also an important factor in poor prognosis among drug users with hepatitis C virus (HCV) as it impacts progression to hepatic cirrhosis or opiate overdose in opioid users. The aim of this systematic review was to assess the effects of psychosocial interventions for problem alcohol use in adult illicit drug users with concurrent problem alcohol use (principally‚ problem drug users
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Program – Region 6 Nursing Care Plan and Evaluation Student: __ Instructor: _Date: _1-28-2010_____ Instructions: 1. The nursing care plan evaluation is based upon the application of criteria appropriate for the student’s skill set. 2. All nursing care plans must be typed (Times New Roman‚ 12 point font). The nursing care plan form is available on Blackboard™ in each clinical course. 3. The grading rubric must be attached – last page of nursing care plan. 4. All relevant assessment
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’Duty of Care’ As the owner of my own nursery i have a ’duty of care’ to my employees‚ children and visitors. The legal definition of ’duty of care’ is; ’a requirement that a person acts reasonably towards others and the public with reasonable watchfulness‚ attention‚ caution and prudence to avoid acts or omissions that could expose people‚ for whom there is responsibility‚ to a reasonably foreseeable risk to injury’. (http://www.psctas.org.au/pdf/doc.pdf) If a member of staff did not meet this
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will operate under a Christian philosophy that children need to be treated with warmth and respect. One major emerging trend in the childcare industry according to the Census Bureau’s Report “What Does It Cost to Mind Our Preschoolers?” is the care of children during non- standard hours. The service sector is projected to have the highest and fastest growing percentage of shift workers at 42%. In 1990‚ 7.2 million mothers with 11.7 million children under the age of 15 worked either full or
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Introduction to duty of care in health‚ social care or children’s and young people settings 1. Understanding the implications of Duty of care. 1.1 * A duty of care means that all health and social care professionals and organisations providing health and care services‚ must act in the best interests of the people they support. 1.2 * The expression is that we ‘owe’ a duty of care to the people we work with. ‘owe’ is a useful word to describe the nature of the duty of care because it is just
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Ethic of Care Theory Ethic of Care is a theory of how we care for other people around us. It prompts us of the value of human relationship. Ethic of Care theory places moral value on communities as well as persons and asserts that one action take place in the context relationship. Our decisions should consider existing relationships and often carry out via social action. However‚ Ethic of Care does not support a dependency relationship between people but it is about maintaining a relationship of
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would we not treat the ones who brought them into this life the same? Child care is a broad term used to describe any number of arrangements or settings where the primary responsibility is caring for young children. Some people discriminate in the workplace with mothers who have children. With this kind of behavior and beliefs‚ we’re setting a bad example for children and what they are going to grow up to be. Child care is a hard thing to come across in life especially when it deals with parental
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