BTEC Apprenticeship Assessment Workbook Level 2 Health & Social Care 2. SAFEGUARDING As a health and social care worker you have an important role in protecting individuals from harm and abuse. You must also be able to look after your own well-being and that of others. 2 KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING These activities assess your knowledge and understanding of things that affect your own well-being as well as the policies and legislation concerning abuse. Task 1 It is important to
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Understanding safeguarding of children and young people ( for those working in the adult sector ) 1:1 Some of the Policies and procedures along with practices include : The Children Act 1989 allocated duties to local authorities‚ courts‚ parents and other agencies in the United Kingdom‚ to ensure children are safeguarded and their welfare is promoted. Its focus is on the idea that children are best cared for within their own families; however‚ it also makes provisions for instances
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Unit 16 Code p5 Understand safeguarding of children and young people 1. Understand policy‚ procedures and practices for safe working with children and young people. 1:1 Explain policies‚ procedures and practises for safe working with children and young people. In order to ensure the safety of the children and young people in our care there are a number of policies‚ procedures and practices that must be adhered to. Policies are documents within the work place put together‚ influenced
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occurrence of child abuse has been a concern for many years and the term ‘safeguarding’ is a procedure which is now used to protect children. The four factors of abuse was identified as‚ physical‚ neglect‚ sexual and emotional. This essay will explore safeguarding‚ concentrating on the sociological model of abuse‚ drawing closely on the views of Bowbly (1978) and Maslow (1975). It will examine the history of safeguarding through analysing previous cases. As well as identifying how influential they
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UNIT CU1516.1 Care workers are involved in many daily tasks which involve service users. My responsibilities involve ensuring all tasks are carried out with regard to : * Company Policy‚ Procedure and guidelines * Health and Safety * Hygiene My work role. * Waking service users at appropriate times * Supervision of their morning routine such as washing‚ showering‚ using the toilet‚ brushing teeth and any other personal care activities such as shaving‚ hair care etc. *
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Unit - 331 Title – Understand Child and Young Person Development Task A 1. Explain the sequence and rate of each aspect of development from birth – 19 years. (1.1) Sequence of development is the correct order in which actions; developmental milestones should take place e.g. walking before running and jumping The rate of development is the age at which each individual child reaches these milestones. The rate of development is the child individual score if you like. During formative
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Chapter 07 - Ethical Decision Making: Technology and Privacy in the Workplace Chapter 07 Ethical Decision Making: Technology and Privacy in the Workplace True/False Questions 1. (p. 255) Privacy issues in the workplace raise ethical issues involving individual rights as well as those involving deontological consequences. FALSE Privacy issues in the workplace raise ethical issues involving individual rights as well as those involving utilitarian consequences. AACSB: 2 BT: Knowledge Difficulty:
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There are many different guidelines‚ policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people that will affect the daily work of practitioners working with them. These relate to Child Protection – Lakey lane‚ we have policies and procedures for safeguarding‚ which say that employees‚ students and volunteers should be meticulously checked for suitability verifying identity and academic or vocational qualifications‚ obtaining professional and character references‚ checking previous employment
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001 The context for safeguarding children and young people 1.1 Identify the changes which have occurred in the UK over the past 100 years in relation to children and health conditions/practices‚ education and employment‚ citizenship and rights‚ equality and diversity. A) Health conditions/practices There is now legislation in place to ensure all children have access to the health services they may need. Agendas such as ‘every child matters’ ensures that children have the opportunities
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516 1.1) The policies‚ procedures and practices for safe working with children and young people all stem from the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman by Ian Huntley. From this horrific act of evil the Safeguarding Vulnerable Group Act 2006 was born (see evidence ‘6’ – 520 1.3). Another public enquiry was set up to address the failure of the law after the death of Victoria Climbié. Within this enquiry‚ Lord Laming called for changes to be made in child protection policies. From this there was
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