Acts to Protect the Service User

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WB3: activity 3- Mental Capacity Act (MCA)- The MCA 2005 provides protection for people who cannot make decisions for themselves. It contains the assessing criteria as to whether people have mental capacity to make decisions, the procedures for making decisions for people who lack mental capacity and safeguards. Any decision made or action taken on behalf of someone who lacks the capacity to make the decision or act for themselves must be made in their best interests. In my personal job role, the service users who would be deemed to not to have mental capacity are the ones who suffer from dementia. Dementia affects the memory and brain and therefore the ability to make logical decisions. In this case, the carers working may make the decision when a person is becoming tired, agitated and frustrated, and to put them for rest on the bed or too bed, even if the service user doesn’t acknowledge they’re acting in this way. Sex Discrimination Act (SDA)- The SDA 1975 is an act to render unlawful certain kinds of sex discrimination and discrimination on the ground of marriage, with the function of working towards the elimination of discrimination of the sexes and promoting equality of opportunity between men and women generally. In my job role, the SDA is present to prevent not only the staff discriminating against the male and female staff, and perhaps refusing to work with certain people, but also to protect the service users. It is present to prevent staff members from treating a service user differently or refusing to care for someone simply because of their sex. Race Relations Act (RRA)- The RRA 1976 protects people of all ethnic origins when applying for a job and whilst working through their career. It prevents a workforce making specific requirements for a job which may rule out people of minorities, I.E asking for someone to be clean shaven, this
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