The national and local contexts of safeguarding and protection from abuse Q1 Identify current legislation in relation to safeguarding giving six examples. (1.1) Your Answer 1. Sexual Offences Act.2003 It`s a part of Act prohibits sexual abuse of vulnerable persons with a mental disorder. An Act to make new provision about sexual offences, their prevention and the protection of children from harm from other sexual acts, and for connected purposes. Act gives a comprehensive list of sex offences to protect individuals from abuse and exploitation, and is designed to be fair and non-discriminatory.
This article contains valuable information on HIV and birth control. It distinguishes between “barrier” and “Non-barrier” methods, and the benefits and the down sides to each as they relate to HIV. It also takes into consideration family planning and HIV. This article takes into account some of the other benefits that some methods of birth control have. This website also provides other information regarding birth control and methods.
Sexual health requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships, as well as the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free of coercion, discrimination and violence. For sexual health to be attained and maintained, the sexual rights of all persons must be respected, protected and fulfilled.” (WHO, 2006a) Sexual orientation is an enduring personal quality that inclines people to feel romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. These attractions are generally subsumed under heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality, while asexuality (the lack of romantic or sexual attraction to others) is sometimes identified as the fourth category. Sexual expression is a somewhat vague term that is used to describe not only sexual activities we engage in, but ways we communicate and present ourselves to the world as a sexual being. Our sexual
They work to stop discrimination against disabled people, men and women and people from different races and cultures. They also want to make sure peoples human rights are respected. Human rights are about how we treat each other, they are about: respect, freedom, equality, dignity and fairness. Human rights include: The right to life - this means that your life is as important as anyone else’s. The right to respect for private and family life - this means the right to live as a family.
Although this could be interpretated as one end of the sexuality spectrum, the physical act of sexual intercourse could be interpretated as the other. Therefore, nurses have a responsibility to help and advise people to achieve as high a level of sexual well being at both ends of the spectrum (Rafferty 1995). As a urethral catheterisation procedure involves the genitalia, it is reasonable to assume that issues of sexuality are potentially raised for the patient as part of holistic patient care. However, there is possibility that this might be passed over (Webb
• Making sure that the people of the UK are aware that they are receiving the best treatment possible for HIV from the support services. • Make sure there is political as well as public support for the people who have sexual health issues and that campaigns are held in order to stop discrimination against people with HIV within the UK They consider themselves to be ambitious, honest, different and independent and with these values, the public should be able to come to them with any issues in regards to HIV, seeing as these are good values to have. They develop short term and long term strategies to see what can be done in the HIV sector. Through doing this they can work to eradicate HIV step by step. Some of these
Unit 2, equality, diversity and rights in health and social care D1- Evaluate the influence of a recent initiative in promoting anti-discriminatory practice. Like everything the disability discrimination act has its positive out comes and its negatives. Some of the positives that come out of the disability discrimination act has it that it ensures that people with disabilities have a civil right that will protect from form any form of discrimination because of there disability. From this it will then encourage other organisations and health authorities to overcome any barriers that they have with people who have disabilities and make the adjustments so the individual with the disabilities can fully access the establishment. Another positive that comes out of the disability act is that one of its aims is to give an equal opportunity for people who have a disability, this will then be getting rid of any discrimination towards them on a whole.
Russon argues that sexuality is foundation of meaningfulness and a developed human life. An erotic experience allows us to sense ourselves as individuals. Engaging in an erotic experience causes the emergence of our sense of individuals because we experience the epiphany that “I am this body.” (76) This erotic epiphany allows us to truly recognize ourselves and the other person jointly desiring in our mutual desires. Since this experience is accomplished with another person, it becomes an experience of freedom because
* The promotion of anti-discrimination practice * The promotion and support of dignity, independence, and safety * Respect for, and acknowledgement of, personal beliefs and an individual’s identity * The maintenance of confidentiality * Protection from abuse and harm * The promotion of effective communication and relationships * The provision of personalized( individual) care By following the seven principles of care values in your everyday work you will be promoting individuals rights and choices, this having a positive impact on people’s feelings of well-being and them having a sense of control over their lives when they may be at a vulnerable stage. http://www.360diversity.com/equality-and-diversity-in-the-workplace/managing-diversity-in-the-workplace/promoting-anti-discriminatory-practice/ Accessed on line 23/6/2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination Accessed on line 23/6/2012. http://unitycornwall.org.uk/anti-discriminatory-practice.html Accessed on line
Now a day's, there are many forms of Sex Education. Three main forms of sex education being debated on are: Abstinence-Only Programs which are programs that exclusively focus on refraining from all sexual behaviors. For example, they do not necessarily put a condition on when a person might choose to no longer be abstinent. To clarify, Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs are programs which are focused exclusively on refraining from all sexual behaviors outside of the context of a heterosexual marriage. And finally, there’s Comprehensive Sexuality Education which are Sexuality educational programs that build a foundation of knowledge and skills relating to human development, relationships, decision-making, abstinence, contraception, and disease prevention.