The CQC henceforth published its guidance material, Essential Standards of Quality & Care. The CQC later published the Health & Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2010, which contains definitions of the services and activities that people must be registered to provide, alongside details of standards that have to be observed. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is another body who provide strict rules that are to be followed correctly. According the the Government website (direct.gov.uk), the HSE is: “the national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety and illness. It acts in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain's workplaces.” There are several further Acts and Regulations that all parties in the Health & Social Care industry are to adhere to, including: Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 This covers a range of issues relating to health, safety and welfare across different sectors and industries.
This means that the choices offered must not be limited to what the service decides to provide. 1.4 Identify legislation and other national policy documents that promote personalisation. Legalisations: - the white paper 2010, the white paper 2007, department of health booklet putting people first and personal budgets –to have more choice and flexibility. The mental capacity act was passed in 2005 this sets out a framework for supporting people to make their own decisions. The green paper (2005) Policy: -Code of practice for social care workers and code of practice for employers of social care workers (2004), common Assessment Framework for Adults (2010), Personalisation through person centred planning (2010), Putting people first (2007) Living well with Dementia: a national dementia strategy (2009), prioritising need in the context of putting people first a whole system approach to eligibility for social care: guidance on eligibility criteria for adult social care (2010).
List local and national systems that are designed to support personalisation Think Local, Act Personal is central to developing and communicating policy and practice on personalisation, and is probably the most comprehensive resource for commissioners and providers. -National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL) NCIL is the national body developing structures, policy and practice for User-Led Organisations (ULOs) - organisations run by and for people with disabilities. These organisations are absolutely core to the Personalisation agenda. They recognise and enable disabled people to use their skills, abilities and values to support themselves and provide adult social care services. - Coventry City Council including social care look at promoting self directed support to enable a person who needs support to be in control of the way they live their life.
It has also given the providers evidence that the support being provided is supporting them to achieve in life what they want. ASCOT (Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit) – This has been developed by the Personal Social Service Research Unit (PSSRU). The tool measures improvement in the outcome of clients and relates this to the use of the service. Its measures the following: • Changes over time • Current and expected situation in the absence of a service • Expected gain from service use • Capacity of
Governing bodies and codes of practice which promote anti-discriminatory practice in H&SC settings in the UK include General Social Care Council/Care, NHS constitution and Nursing + Midwifery Council. NHS constitution was introduced on 21 January 2009 its aims are to help people understand what the legal rights they have, that the NHS belong to all of us and that high-quality requires high-quality workplaces, and providers aiming to be employers of choice. It ensures
4. Give two ways that a risk assessment can support the right of an individual using the service to take risks and make choices. 5. Explain how the responsibilities of all concerned with the care of an individual can be supported by a risk assessment. 2 Health and Social
1 Understand how to reflect on practice in adult social care 1.1 Explain what reflective practice is. (Planned: 0 , Completed:0) Reflective practice is looking back on an experience and reflecting on what went well with it or what may not have gone so well. 1.2 Explain the importance of reflective practice in continuously improving the quality of service provided (Planned: 0 , Completed:0) Reflective practice is inperative in order to ensure that high standards are kept continuously as circumstances ,service users and environments change. In order to reflect one must continuously be aware of approaches used and how they can be changed or developed to improve. Continually improving and adapting approaches benefits both indiviuals and practitioners ,ensuring that each individuals needs are catered for.
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Annie L. Foskey Diversity Reflection HRDV/5000 Dr. Claudia White June 7, 2015 Strategy of Health and Human Services The field of Human Services is broadly defined, uniquely approaching the objective of meeting human needs through an interdisciplinary knowledge base, focusing on prevention as well as remediation of problems, and maintaining a commitment to improving the overall quality of life of service populations. The Human Services profession is one which promotes improved service delivery systems by addressing not only the quality of direct services, but also by seeking to improve accessibility, accountability, and coordination among professionals and agencies in service delivery. (National HS.org) The HR program that I researched
Unit 038 Promote good practice in handling information in health and social care setting Outcome 1 1.1 Identify legislation and codes of practice that relate to handling information in health and social care Three of the current legislation and codes of practice that relate to handling information in health and social care seems to be most important. They are as follows: The Human Rights Act 1998 (article 8) Article 8 outlines the right to respect for private and family life. The Data Protection Act The Data Protection Act (1998) makes provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to individuals, including the obtaining, holding, use or disclosure of such information. Report on the review of patient-identifiable information – Caldicott Report (1997). The Caldicott Report set out general principles which should be used by health and social care organisations when reviewing use of service user information.