Nvq Health Social Care Level2

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CU1517. 1.1 Diversity Treating each person in your care equally regardless of their age disability ethnicity culture belief race and sexual orientation Individuality should always be taken into account such as physical needs or communication barriers their care must be tailored to suit each person but not in such a way to give any preference to any one person or group. Equality Ensuring individuals or groups are treated fairly and no one individual or group is treated above another. Promoting equality should remove any discrimination against people. Inclusion Is involving a supervisor in all aspects of their care. Involving them in decision making, this also helps to promote independence. Build on an individual’s social skills in the home and wider community. Discrimination When someone is treated less favourably than another, such as when a member of staff allows any prejudice to effect the way they are for someone. Such as race, age, disability, gender and sexuality. 1.2 Discrimination can deliberately occur in the work place when one person is favoured above others or treated better, for example. Being given better choices in things such as activities or favoured on religious grounds. Inadvertent discrimination could just be something simple as speaking to someone an a better manner than others in a care environment. Or electing to work with one person above others around them. 1.3 Practises that support equal plus inclusion reduce the chance of discrimination as they show that each person is equal in their own right, should be treated in such a way. Each person’s differences should be taken into account and care/support should be delivered in a non-judgemental and unbiased way. 2.1 Legislations and Codes. Legislations that apply to my own role as a support worker/carer. Mental Health act 2005 Mental Health Bill 2006 Human

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