I. Explain the purpose and provisions of the Mental Health Act. ‘The Mental Health Act is the law under which someone can be admitted, detained and treated in hospital against their wishes’. http://www.rethink.org/living-with-mental-illness/mental-health-laws/mental-health-act-1983 The main purpose of the Mental Health Act is to safeguard a person who is at risk of harming themselves or others. This act allows the detention of such a person in a facility with or without their consent.
Assignment 307 Understand how to handle information in social care settings Task A Short answer questions Ai Identify four key pieces of Legislation and Codes of Practice relating to handling information in social care settings. • Data Protection Act 1998 • Health and Social Care Act 2000 • Employees Policies and Procedures • Freedom of Information Act 2000 Aii Explain how legal requirements and codes of practice affect the day to day work of a social care worker in relation to handling information. Confidentiality, by not passing on information to anyone who isn’t involved in the individuals care, you must make sure you have the individuals consent. Protecting personal daily records, making sure that you keep them in a secure place as required by law. Aiii Explain two ways of helping other practitioners to understand the importance of handling information securely.
Summarise the main points of legal requirement and codes of practise for handling information in health and social care The Human Rights Act 2000 Article 8: the right to respect for private and family life; Everybody has the right to have respect for their private and family life. The right to a private life includes the right for all of our personal information, medical notes, photographs and anything else personal to ourselves keep safe and protected by confidentiality. Only in certain circumstances can private information be let out and that is if someone or the public is in danger. Data Protection Act 1998 This act is in place to protect the rights of individual’s information and how it is processed, disclosed and destroyed. It applies to information that is held in letters/writing or on computerised records these include things such as x-rays, photographs, CCTV images telephone calls etc.
Unit 4222-307 There are numerous acts of legislation and codes of practice that relate to the handling of information in health and social care, theses included the following: * The data protection act 1998 * The Health and Social Care Act 2008 * Freedom of Information Act 2000 * Your employers' Policies & Procedures The main points of the legal requirements and codes of practice for handling information in health and social care included: The data protection contains 8 principles: Personal data must be: * Processed fairly and lawfully. * Processed only for one or more specified and lawful purpose. * Adequate, relevant and not excessive for those purposes. * Accurate and kept up to date - data subjects have the right to have inaccurate personal data corrected or destroyed if the personal information is inaccurate to any matter of fact. * Kept for no longer than is necessary for the purposes it is being processed.
Unit 4222-245 Understand the context of supporting individuals with learning disabilities (LD 201) 1.1 & 1.2 Identify legislation and policies that are designed to promote the human rights, inclusion, equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities. Explain how this legislation and policies influence the day to day experiences of individuals with learning disabilities and their families Disability Discrimination Act 1995 – made it unlawful for employers to discriminate against people on the basis of a disability. It ensured that provisions for disabled people in employment are made and increased the chances of individuals to live a full life and achieve their goals. Human Rights Act 1998 – protects the rights of all individuals and enshrines the right to life, privacy and not to be subjected to degrading or inhuman treatment which improved the standards of care given to individuals with a learning disability. Mental Capacity Act 2005 – set out the assumption that an individual has the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves unless it can be proved otherwise.
Unit 4222-209 - Handle Information In Health & Social Care Settings (HSC 028) Outcome 01 1.1. Legislation relating to the recording, storing & sharing of information are as follows; * Data protection act 1998 * Freedom of information act 2000 * Access to personal files act 1987 * Confidentiality of personal information 1988 * Police and criminal evidence act 1984 S17 * The care homes policies & procedures * Care standards act 2000 1.2. It is important that you have secure systems for recording & storing information in a health & social care setting as once something is recorded in any way, whether that be written down or entered onto a computer it becomes a permanent record of a personal piece of information of an individual & is regulated by government legislation & for this reason you must be very careful with what you do with it & how you, as he information holder, store it. All personal information of an individual must be stored locked away safely & securely & you must never take an individual’s personal information outside of the setting in which it has been recorded for or leave anywhere where another individual who is not authorised to can view it freely. The personal information of an individual can contain very private & personal things that if another individual got their hands on or if I was lost could be detrimental to the individual whose personal information it is for example; an individual’s personal information could include; * Medical history – if an individual’s medical history was lost due to failure to store it properly & the individual was rushed into hospital it could severely delay their treatment, them end up getting the wrong treatment as doctors could not know what was wrong but if they had the individuals person information could tell straight away they
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.
Unit 635 Level: Credit value: UAN: Support individuals with autistic spectrum conditions 3 4 M/504/2196 Unit aim The purpose of this unit is to develop learners knowledge, understanding and skills of supporting an individual with autistic spectrum conditions Learning outcomes There are five learning outcomes to this unit. The learner will: 1. Understand legislative frameworks that relate to individuals with autistic spectrum conditions 2. Understand the main characteristics of autistic spectrum conditions 3. Be able to support individuals with autistic spectrum conditions 4.
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 Unit 4222-245 Understand the 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 One of the main causes of discrimination is the fear and lack of understanding of others because they are different. In order to prevent discrimination it is important to value people and treat them differently in order to meet their different needs. -Human Rights Act 1998 become law in 2000 gives people rights that there were intended to prevent discrimination -Mental Capacity Act2005 -Care Standard Act 200 -Disability Discrimination Act 1995-2005 -Equality Act 2010 -National Health service and Community Act 1990 -procedure and policies of any organization -Codes of Practice The Equality Act 2010 – The act covers nine protected characteristics, which cannot be used as a reason to treat people unfairly. Every person had one or more of the protected characteristics so the act protects everyone against unfair treatment. They protected characteristics are: * Age * Disability * Gender reassignment * Marriage and civil partnership * Pregnancy and maternity * Race * Religion or belief * Sex * Sexual orientation 2.explain how this legislation and policies influence the day to day experience of individuals with learning disabilities and their families Getting a job or education, traveling, going for a drink or to the cinema with friends are ordinary activities but for disabled people remain difficult to achieve.