Understand how national initiatives promote anti-discriminatory practice
Till this present day legislation is spoken and examples are been taught. In this part the main laws are been showed to you so you can look out when working in the health and social care profession.
But what so ever you must know their being and their simple principles. If you are not sure about something, you could ask to someone and research about relevant Act yourself.
Conventions, legislation and regulations
Not everyone can know every detail, so asking would not embarrass you; there is nothing wrong of asking information of every law that promotes anti-discriminatory practice in health and social care.
Law or regulation
European convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950- This is the European file connecting to human rights; in European Union this is signed by every government as well as the UK. This has been made to protect the human rights and how it’s made is that it helps for the important freedoms in the European countries.
Sex Discrimination Act 1975- This protects women and men from discrimination or harassment as levels of the gender in employment, advertising, education or even in the provision of housing, good, services or facilities. The reason this was created is to protect every gender in the service away from discrimination or harassment because of their difference of sex. It was made by keeping the individuals protected from harassments and discrimination in service, for example all service users are kept away from sexual harassment, this is ensure by checking every staff member and care workers in the service.
Mental Health Act 1983- The meaning for this Act is to let achievement to happen, where it’s required, to ensure t...
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...otection Act 1998; it is the main thing that professionals do in the health and social.
All workplaces and organisations need confidentiality policy in every health and social care sector, and the confidentiality procedures needs to be followed carefully to keep the person’s health position safe from unlawful people that can humiliate the person and they may lose their own self-respect. The only times that confidentiality shouldn’t be followed when someone who can self-harm, may not tell any kind of harm that has happened to them, and when they may be threatened by someone.
Human rights
All situations are related to every human right, which could be important in the health and social care profession. Every problem in the health and social care sector should be watched out and must be reported and should be known how to report it for the individual’s human rights.
Health and social care professionals encounter a diverse amount of individuals who have different needs and preferences regarding their health. As professionals they must ensure that all services users, whether it is older people with dementia, an infant with physical disabilities or an adult with an eating disorder (National Minimum Data Set for Social Care, [no date]), are treated in a way that will successfully meet such needs. In fact, health and social care professionals have a ‘duty of care’ towards services users, as well as other workers, in which they must legally promote the wellbeing of individuals and protect them against harm, abuse and injury. (The Care Certificate Workbook Standard 3, [no date]) Duty of care is a legal requirement
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A care relationship is special and requires skill, trust and understanding. This essay will elaborate how the quality of that relationship affects the quality of the care given and the experiences felt in receiving care. These different relationships will depend on the type of care given, who the care is given by and what sort of previous existing relationship there was to begin with. For a good care relationship to work it needs to follow the 5 K101 principles of care practice which are 'support people in maximising their potential','support people in having a voice and being heard','respect people's beliefs and preferences','support people's rights to appropriate services' and 'respect people's privacy and right to confidentiality'.(K101,Unit 4,p.183). If all of these needs are met a far exceptional quality of relationship between the carer and care receiver will be achieved.
Supporting people in having a voice and being heard is one of the five key principles of care practice in the K101 course. They link to the National Occupational Standards ‘Health and Social Care’. The principle states you need to show that you support and develop relationships with individuals so they can communicate and express views and preferences regarding their health and general needs without any fear of being ridiculed, rejected or retribution.
The health and social care practitioner values, beliefs and experiences can influence their delivery of care by what they believe in and what they see as acceptable. It is important as a health practitioner to treat service users equally and to never allow their personal beliefs to affect their role of work. For example giving someone else a special treatment because you like them better and treating a client differently because they do not have the same religion/belief. Treating a service user badly because of their race or their personality is against the practise. The Human Rights Act 1998, The Equality Act of 2010, The Sex Discrimination Act 1975, Equal Opportunities Act 2004 are all legislations that link with equality and diversity. All these acts should be
Each person has a basic human right to be given proper medical care. Likewise, it is a social and legal duty for any health care staff and professional to appropriately provide medical services that strictly adhere to the sound practice standards as established by the medical community.
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (European Convention on Human Rights, as amended) (ECHR), Art 5(1)(e)
The procedure of protecting clients, patients and colleagues from harm. The benefits of following a person centred approach in the use of health and social care practice. Ethical dilemmas and conflicts that may arise when providing care. Supporting and protection to users of health and social care practice. The implementation of policies, legislation regulation and code of practice which is relevant to own work in health and social care. How local policies and procedures can develop in accordance with national and policy requirements. The impact of policy, legislation, regulation, and code of practice on organisational policy and
In this essay I will research and provide a timeline of developments to human rights, i will explain the underlying principles of the human rights approach and the importance of adopting human rights to care. After the Second World War ended in the mid 1940’s there became a serious realisation to the importance of human rights. This realisation got the United Nations to establish the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This Declaration shows the first ever international agreement on the primary principles of human rights. There is a total of thirty basic human rights within the Universal Declaration and these rights apply to every single person in the world. An example of one of the rights everyone has is ‘the
The Scottish Government. 2004. Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2004/01/18753/31686. [Accessed 01 March 14].
Anti-discriminatory practice aims to fight against negative discrimination and the effects that it has on the person or group. Within the social work field it is imperative to maintain this practice with regard to colleagues and clients and to treat everyone with complete impartiality. Maintaining standards and not imparting personal beliefs or views which could be seen as pre perceived. Conducting oneself in an impartial manner to maintain professionalism. There are normally set guidelines to follow within the working environment that are maintained through training due to ongoing variations in legislation making it important to keep abreast of any changes.
In this essay I will analyse the origins of Community Care and what benefits emerged when the NHS Community Care Act 1990 was established. Later on, I will explain and critically evaluate the effects of privatisation in social care and health.
In keeping within current legislation on the protection and respect of an individuals’ right of anonymity, (Clamp, Gough and Land 2004; Polit and Beck 2007), and to confidentiality, (Burns and G...
The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights is a document which brings together all of the Fundamental Human Rights together in one, single document. Before the inception of EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the member states of the European Union had many conflicting opinions on what exactly a human right entailed, therefore the need for a single, codified document outlaying the basic Fundamental Human Rights was great. The Charter was issued in 2000 and at this time, according to Jesse Norman, The Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Industry and Energy, ‘The charter was then described as a ‘solemn proclamation’ and was designed to strengthen the EU’S political legitimacy, containing rights and freedoms as well as strengthening the rights of