Understand health and safety in social care settings Performance Criteria 1. Understand the different responsibilities relating to health and safety in social care settings 1.1. Identify legistation relating to health and safety in social care setting Current legislation and subsequent amendments may include: · Health & Safety at Work Act The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety. Under this Act
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Unit 202 Principles of personal development in adult social care settings Outcome 1 Understanding what is required for good practice in adult social care roles Below is a list of some of the legislations that are relevant to adult social care. These make up ‘standards’ to follow for good practice. Care Standards Act 2000 Domiciliary Care Regulations 2002 Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 GSCC Codes
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Unit 4 Principles for implementing Duty of care in Health‚ Social care or Children’s and Young Persons settings. 1.1 Duty of care means that I provide care and support to individuals‚ within the law and also within the policies‚ procedures and agreed rules of my workplace It is about keeping Young peoples independence‚ to support and enable them to live within an environment free from prejudice and safe from abuse. All young people are entitled to their own opinions‚ choices and we should
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Task a Childcare may be provided within a variety of settings‚ from a childminders home through to a purpose built building‚ making it difficult to be too prescriptive about how a safe environment can be achieved. The obvious starting point is to ensure that basic principles are being followed; for example‚ no matter how good the security of a building is‚ the doors must be closed properly in the first place‚ otherwise all other efforts are likely to be worthless. The message that safety begins
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Equality and Inclusion in Health‚ Social Care or Children’s and Young People’s Settings Diversity: Diversity literally means difference. Diversity recognises that though people have things in common with each other‚ they are also different and unique in many ways. Diversity is about recognising and valuing those differences. Diversity therefore consists of visible and non-visible factors‚ which include personal characteristics such as background‚ culture‚ personality and work-style in addition
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Unit 1 Health Social Care Child Care Contents This booklet provides information for a range of service provisions in Health Social Care and Child Care listed are the qualifications‚ experience‚ pay‚ skills needed to be able to succeed in each profession. Health * Midwife * Mental Health Nurse * Nursery Nurse and Nursery Assistant * Summary nursing and career progression routes Social Care * Social worker * Probation Officer * Foster Carer Child
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Unit 202 - Principles of personal development in adult social care settings. Outcome 1: Understand what is required foe good practice in adult social care roles. 1.1 Identify standards that influence the way adult social care job roles are carried out. Care Standards Act (2000) Domiciliary Care Regulations (2002) Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) Manual Handling Operations Regulations (1992) Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations (1999) Codes of Practice National Occupational Standards
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Unit 4222-307 Promote good practice in handling information in health and social care setting Outcome 1 Understand requirements for handling information in health and social care settings 1. Identify legislation and codes of practice that relate to handling information in health and social care. OUTCOME 1 1. Identify legislation and codes of practice that relate to handling information in health and social care. All of the staff need to make sure that confidentiality is paramount
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Unit 054 Principles for implementing duty of care in health and social care or children’s and young people settings Outcome 1 Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice Part One Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role. The key points as outlined in the text book‚ surrounding my duty of care at work include helping children as they develop: * The ability to foresee and cope with potential dangers. * More robust immune systems. * Empathy. * Communication
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SHC 32: Engage in personal development in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings 1.1 Describe the duties and responsibilities of own work role. While I am at Robert’s Primary School on placement my main responsibility is to maintain and supervise the safety of all children that I work with. A child’s safety is paramount and it crucial that every member of staff‚ whether they are permanent or volunteer‚ work towards this. While I am in the Reception Class my duties include:
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