It provides opportunities to learn from your experience and develop your working practice. It is both a tool to help you analyse specific interactions or incidents that have occurred at work, as well as a method of working in the moment that is mindful and self-aware. 1.2. Explain the importance of reflective practice in continuously improving the quality of service provided? Reflecting on your practise is important as it can help you to focus on what you have done well and identify areas you may need to improve I.e.
Unit 4222-245 Understand the context of supporting individuals with learning disabilities (LD 201) Outcome 1 Understand the legislation and policies that support the human rights and inclusion of individuals with learning disabilities 1. identify legislation and policies that are designed to promote the human rights, inclusion, equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities 2. explain how this legislation and policies influence the day to day experiences of individuals with learning disabilities and their families. Outcome 2 Understand the nature and characteristics of learning disability The learner can: 1. explain what is meant by ‘learning disability’ 2. give examples of causes of learning disabilities 3. describe the medical and social models of disability 4. state the approximate proportion of individuals with a learning disability for whom the cause is ‘not known’ 5. describe the possible impact on a family of having a member with a learning disability. Outcome 3 Understand the historical context of learning disability The learner can: 1. explain the types of services that have been provided for individuals with learning disabilities over time 2. describe how past ways of working may affect present services 3. identify some of the key changes in the following areas of the lives of individuals who have learning disabilities: • where people live • daytime activities • employment • sexual relationships and parenthood • the provision of healthcare. Outcome 4 Understand the basic principles and practice of advocacy, empowerment and active
CT263: Understand the Context of Supporting Individuals with Learning Disabilities 1.1 Legislation and policies that are designed to promote the human rights, inclusion, equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities. 1. The Mental Capacity Act 2005. This provides a framework to empower and protect people who may lack the capacity to make some decisions for themselves. 2.
Person Centred Planning is a method of supporting individuals and empowering them to take charge of the direction of their life and make goals which are achievable and ultimately lead to greater social inclusion and good quality of life in every aspect from good mental health to helping them achieve and overcome physical disabilities. Learning difficulties and disability has previously been approached by being agency focused, so the agency decided the goals for them and set their targets. Multi disciplinary meetings would be held and the individual’s disability and skills assessed and their care would be around that, therefore putting the disability first and not the whole person. Getting started with person centred thinking One of the best tools to start with is the 'One Page Profile' it is essentially a list of what people like and admire about the person, what the service user is telling us is important to them, and a description of what great support looks like for them:- everyone should have one! The one page profile can then be
Unit 245 Understand the Context of Supporting Individuals with Learning Disabilities. By Islaboo | Studymode.com Unit 245 – Understand the context of supporting individuals with learning disabilities. 1.1a) Human Rights act 1998 b) Equality act 2010 c) Disability discrimination act 1995 d) Mental Capacity act 2005 1.2a) Improved the standards of care given to individuals with a learning disability, it gave individuals the right to life, right to privacy and the right not to be subjected to degrading or inhuman treatment. b) Protects the rights of individuals and promotes equality for all, gives the right for all people to be treated the same regardless of race, age, sex or disability. c) Made it unlawful for employers to discriminate against people based on a disability, it gave individuals a greater chance to live a full life and achieve what they would like to do.
UNDERSTAND CONTEXT OF SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES Outcome 1 Understand the legislation and policies that support the human rights and inclusion of individuals with learning disabilities Q1. . Identify legislation and policies that are designed to promote the human rights, inclusion, equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities Because people with learning disabilities are more vulnerable than other people, they are affected by certain laws. There isn't one law or Act of Parliament which covers their situation, but they may be affected by laws concerning: education, voting rights, ownership of property, guardianship, control of personal finances, Consent for
UNIT 22 Understand the Context of Supporting Individuals with Learning Disabilities Unit Code: LD 201 Unit reference number: K/601/5315 QCF level: 2 Credit Value: 4 Guided learning hours: 35 1.1 Identify legislation and policies that are designed to promote the human rights, inclusion, equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities The National Health Service and Community Care Act (1990) Disability Discrimination Act (1995, 2005) The Human Rights Act (1998) The Care Standards Act (2000) Valuing People; A New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century (2001) The special Education Needs and disability Act (2001) The Equality Act (2010) The Learning Disability Coalition (2007) 1.2 Explain how this legislation and policies influence the day-to-day experiences of individuals with learning disability Valuing People set out how the government intended to provide new opportunities for children and adults with learning disabilities and their families to live full and independent lives as part of their local communities. The paper set out to give individuals with a learning disability and their family carers the chance to have a real say in the planning, purchasing, and monitoring of services. Many of these policies and practices have been in response to the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998. The special Education Needs and disability Act (2001) made it unlawful for schools in the UK to discriminate against children with disabilities and obliged local education authorities to assess children’s needs to ensure they received individual support to access education. One of the Valuing People goals was to modernise day services and increase community involvement.
Unit 4222-245 Outcome 1. Understand the legislation and policies that support the human rights and inclusion of individuals with learning disabilities 1. Identify legislation and policies that are designed to promote the human rights, inclusion, equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities * Mental Capacity Act 2005 * Human Rights Act 1998 (became law in 2000) * Care Standards Act 2000 * Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (amended 2005) * Equality Act 2010 * National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 * Organisational and local policies and procedures * Codes of Conducts 2. Explain how these legislation and policies influence the day to day experiences of individuals with learning disabilities and their families Those with learning disabilities have the same fundamental rights as everyone else. However, getting a job, an education, going for a drink or to the cinema etc remains a struggle for them.
UNIT 4222-245 UNDERSTAND THE CONTEXT OF SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES. OUTCOME 1: Legislation and policies designed to promote human rights, inclusion, equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities are mainly the Human Rights Act along with the Disability Discrimination Act, Mental Health Act, Community Care Act and National Health Services Act. People with a learning disability have the right to experience a full range of relationships including friendships and community links as well as personal relationships which can be difficult for individuals with a learning disability. Everyone has the right to life regardless of having or caring for someone that has a learning disability. Your human rights, whether you have a learning disability or not are the same.
1.1 Identify the legislation and policies that are designed to promote the following. 1.2 Explain how they influence the day to day experiences of individuals with learning disabilities and their families. Human Rights The Human Rights Act 1998 This act has many rights; amongst them are the right not to be discriminated against. The Mental Capacity Act 2005 This act states that everyone should be treated as able to make their own decisions until it is shown that they are not able to. Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and 2005 The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) aims to protect disabled people from discrimination.