Direct Discrimination may occur if an employee is not considered for a promotion because of age or a job is refused to a person because of their disability. Indirect Discrimination may occur when employees are insisted to do night shifts as this could exclude those who have children to care for or by not making reasonable adjustments at work could exclude those employees with a disability. 1.3 Explain how practices that support diversity, equality and inclusion reduce the likelihood of discrimination. Practices that support diversity, quality and inclusion to reduce the likelihood of discrimination may include encouraging everyone to express their views and have them listened to which in turn helps us to respect and celebrate peoples differences, promoting good practice
(b) Should legislation and codes of practice not be followed possible consequences could be:- Individuals: Would not receive the care in a person-centred way. This in turn could have a detrimental effect on their well-being, self-esteem and their dignity. Social Care Worker: It is a legal requirement to implement policies and procedures in accordance with legislation and is part of contractual agreements to work. The consequences of not following procedures can affect just one individual or an entire team of social workers. (c) Inclusive Practice: This can demonstrate, that although we are all unique and have different needs, we are not
| 1.2 Describe different working relationships in social care settings There are many different roles within the social care setting and so that leads to many different working relationships. The working relationships can differ from colleague, manager, visiting doctor or nurse, senior and even taxi drivers and other public workers that as a support working are easy to encounter, not to forget the service users and their family and friends. Every one of these roles have different working relationships and some are more formal than others, for example; though your relationship with other carers and support workers may be professional it tends to be much less formal that when dealing with a manager. Another example would be that
A potential dilemma could be the client not wanting to visit the hospital when the client has been medically advised that it is essential for them to do so, refusal of medication or any time the service user exercises their rights, to choose or refuse, that could potentially cause harm to themselves or others. I would try to advise them as to what was in their best interest, but there is a fine line between advising them and your advice itself becoming abuse once a service user has “refused” or said “no”. If in doubt always phone your supervisor or manager and always document exactly what has happened and what has been said and done.
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.
Employers would also be required to provide job accommodations for applicants and workers who have disabilities if those accommodations would not impose and undue hardship on the organization. The employer must also provide equal opportunity for promotion and benefits under this law. Information regarding the ADA can be obtained from the Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy. ODEP does not enforce this law. Enforcement of this law, where it pertains to employment, falls under the powers of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Describe the potential tension between maintaining an individual’s Confidentiality and disclosing concerns? The issue of confidentiality and disclosure is a legal requirement. While confidentiality is highly regarded, disclosures of certain information is vital. Any information disclosed without recourse to the service user must be one that portent anger either to the service user or others. As a care worker, before you pass on any information about any service user to other person(s), you must seek consent from the service user.
2 Practices that support diversity can reduce the likelihood of discrimination by allowing an employee to work their hours around family arrangements or other commitments, displaying acceptance to a diverse staffing team allowing a diverse range of people to work there, which in turn will reduce discrimination because there are not strict rules on working hours thus leaving people with difficult commitments to work at all. The government have also placed frameworks to reduce discrimination, which allows people of different age groups providing they are old enough to legally work, it safeguards people of different sexual ethnical or religious backgrounds to work the same job without any legal risk of discrimination. Which leads onto equality,
The increasing diversity of the United States requires a pluralistic view that recognizes the mutual benefits and contributions of multiple cultures of the country (Klein & Chen, 2001). Though there are several benefits, diversity creates unique problems that contribute to problems faced by the United States. Diversity may create ethnocentrism and this in turn leads to biased attitude and racist behavior towards other people. There may be the inability of an individual to regard another ethnic group as equal or valid members of the society. Many of the social problems witnessed in the United States can very easily be attributed to the diversity that exists in the country.
By exercising good practice in the employment of disabled persons, organizations can reap the benefits of this competitive advantage that attracts the custom of disabled people, their families and friends. This is only possible through the complementary combination of corporate reputation, ethical employment and environmental policies all of which can influence decisions on obtaining goods and services of an increased consumer base (Moss, 2010). In addition, the process of employment into jobs is of great importance for individuals to integrate themselves into society as well as participate within it. Aside from the financial benefit of earning an income, employment can provide opportunities to expand one’s social network that contributes to the sense of social identity, opportunities to live days in an efficient manner and through participation in meaningful activities providing a sense that one has a purpose in life (Evans & Repper, 2000). The combination of the mentioned benefits as well as many others contribute to a better overall quality of life accompanied with increased self-esteem (Becker et al, 1996).