Vulnerable populations in the United States include economically disadvantaged‚ racial and ethnic minorities‚ low-income children‚ the elderly‚ homeless‚ people living with HIV and other chronic medical conditions that include mental illness. Other factors that contribute to these populations are a lack of healthcare‚ poverty‚ social‚ environmental factors and lack of education. Vulnerable populations divided into three categories physical‚ psychological‚ and social. The vulnerability may arise
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Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people• an analysis of how national and local guidelines‚ policies and procedures for safeguarding affect day to day work with children and young people• an explanation of how the processes used by own work setting (Link to placement) or service comply with legislation that covers data protection‚ information handling and sharing. 2. Write a case study • an explanation of child protection within the wider concept of safeguarding children and young
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SHC 51 Unit 1‚ Use and Develop Systems that Promote Communication Review the range of groups and individuals whose communication needs must be addressed in your job role. Most people take for granted the ability to communicate. However the ability to communicate is always provisional and can depend on both the environment and context of a situation‚ our skills and abilities and the skills and abilities of the person we are trying to communicate with. Speech‚ language and communication difficulties
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Vulnerable Population Homeless Persons University of Phoenix By: Diana Thornton August 24‚ 2009 What does the word population and Vulnerable mean? Population means the whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region. Vulnerable population is defined as individuals made vulnerable by: Financial circumstances or place of residence Health age Functional or developmental status Ability to communicate effectively Presence of chronic or terminal illness or disability
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Introduction Stylistics‚ sometimes called lingvo-stylistics‚ is a branch of general linguistics. It has now been more or less definitely outlined. It deals mainly with two interdependent tasks: a) the investigation of the inventory of special language media which by their ontological features secure the desirable effect of the utterance and b) certain types of texts (discourse) which due to the choice and arrangement of language means are distinguished by the pragmatic aspect of the communication
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Name: Jean-Pierre Nsinga Date: 1 September 2012 IV’D: Name: Jean-Pierre Nsinga Date: 1 September 2012 IV’D: BTEC LEVEL 3 EXTENDED DIPLOMA IN SPORT (Development‚ Coaching & Fitness) ASSIGNMENT BRIEF Student Name: Jean-Pierre Nsinga Tutor Name: Lizzie Farquhar Unit Seven: “Fitness Testing for Sport & Exercise Launch Date: 10 September 2012 Hand In Date: 22 October 2012 Criteria Covered: LO1‚3‚4 P1‚5‚6 M1‚3‚4 D2 -------------------------------------------------
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Tittle: protection *click* Intro: Some people say that the government should be more responsible for damage done to the environment by harmful corporations. A reason behind this maybe is that the government holds all the supremacy. Other people disagree and say that the government should not be responsible for protecting environments for damaging corporations. Other people may say this since the government has many other problems that are at a higher priority. The government should be more responsible
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Vulnerable Populations The chronically mentally ill are people that suffer from one of many diseases that affect the brain. The brain is the most complex of human organs. The cause of being mentally ill is unknown‚ but there are most likely many different reasons. There is no cure for being mentally ill but there are many effective treatments that one can get. In history‚ there have been several movements to try and deinstitutionalize many mental health facilities. The goal for many mental
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DIPLOMA STANDARDS (UNITS) Principles of safeguarding & protection in health & social care 205: Outcome 1 1- Definitions: *Physical abuse: any act or maltreatment resulting in a physical injury‚ such as hitting‚ punching and kicking. *Sexual abuse: any act or mistreatment of a sexual nature imposed on someone else without his or her consent‚ such as rape and inappropriate touch. *Emotional/psychological abuse: any intentional act or mistreatment resulting in a mental/ emotional
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During this placement‚ I have learned that safeguarding referrals rely on professional judgements against the Risk Threshold Procedures (RTT‚ 2017) and legislation of Care Act 2014. Assessments methods within adult safeguarding present as both process-focused (clear directives of how to protect vulnerable adults within legislation and policy) and contingent (assessment goals vary on context and independent variables) (SCIE‚ 2007). The assessment process is systematic and embedded into the Care Act
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