•Financial abuse is the illegal or unauthorised use of a person’s property, money, pension book or other valuables. •Institutional abuse involves failure of an organisation to provide appropriate and professional individual services to vulnerable people. It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes and behaviour that amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness, stereotyping and rigid systems. •Self-neglect is a behavioural condition in which an individual neglects to attend to their basic needs, such as personal hygiene, appropriate clothing, feeding, or tending appropriately to any medical conditions they have. •Neglect is a passive form of abuse in which the perpetrator is responsible to provide care, for someone, who is unable to care for oneself, but fails to provide adequate care to meet their needs.
The coroner made suggestions to improve practices. The discriminatory practice in case study 1 is abuse, neglect and bullying. Abuse is actions towards a person that is deliberate or unintentionally causes harm. – Safeguarding adults, what is abuse? Neglect is the failure to provide necessary care, assistance or attention that causes the person physical, mental or emotional harm.
If the manager takes know action talk to them and ask why they haven't done so,if still nothing is done then go to regional manager it should not be necessary to go further but if you do there is cqc, health and safetyat work or department of health detailing all the relevant information. 1 Health and Social Care Assignment 3. Describe
Discriminatory practices are very influential on the people that use health and social care services; I will explain these effects and give examples. (1) Marginalisation is when you feel like you are not liked within a group or in other words you don’t feel like you are a part of a group or society.In health and social care everyone should be treated equal and marginalisation is not allowed. An example of this is a youth worker excluding a homosexual teenager based on his sexuality. (1) Disempowerment is to make someone feel devalued this could happen to either an individual or groups. The victim could be discriminated by a valued group/individual or powerful group/individual.
If manager does not hear you, or nothing come in action to eliminate unsafe practice, then you have all the way right to complain to the social service, CQC, health and safety commission and department of health. Cii Describe what a social care worker must do if unsafe practice is reported but nothing is done to ensure it is corrected If unsafe practice has been reported but nothing has been done to ensure it is corrected a social care worker has a duty of care & so must report their concerns to: the next level of management, the Care Quality Commission, the Safeguarding Team at the local Social Services department or the General Social Care Council, & write a confidential report detailing all relevant information. Ciii Describe three factors that may make individuals more vulnerable to abuse than others 1. Individuals with poor communication – may not be able to hear, may not be able to speak, may have trouble getting their point across and finding the right words to say, could become frustrating not being able to communicate effectively, may feel as though they’re not being listened to 2.someone not being able to fed themselves and a carer not providing adequate food and not providing assistance with eating food. 3 not providing support with personal care and and ensuring they are adequately dressed.
Restrictive intervention may not be used on a regular basis as you can demoralise that individual and could potentially cause more challenging behaviour. 1.4 When used restrictive intervention, you have to inform the senior on shift and at staff hand over. You would also need to complete a BRC (behaviour recording chart) and to inform Safe Guarding and possibly CQC. 1.5 When dealing with challenging behaviour, you have to try and avoid using restrictive interventions because it could harm the individual and cause him/her to be more distressed. Restrictive interventions is illegal if the individual hasn’t had risk assessments and support plan written up to say it’s for his/her best interest and the staff, public and other residents own safety.
The first problem is Sam getting involved with an employee. The relationship can cause favoritism at times and lack of proper managing. The relationship is a set up for some type of discrimination and harassment. Sexual harassment is a major issue in the workplace. Title VII is the basis for discrimination law and judicial decisions….its basic purpose is to prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin (Jennings, 2006).
-Self-Neglect is when someone is harming themselves whether being self-abusing (cutting themselves) neglecting their personal hygiene (washing and dressing) refusing to eat or drink. -Neglect by others is failure to provide basic necessary care, assistance and guidance to someone. 1.2 -Physical abuse the signs to look for are; unexplained bruising, cuts, scratches, sleeplessness, loss of appetite a sign of self-defence, depression and change in behaviour. -Sexual abuse the signs to look for are; unexplained marks, repetitive UTI’s, vaginal
Management should natuarlly put systems in place for helping employees cope with stress and depression, Otherwise employees will be unproductive and in the case of a care home, They may take some anger and fustration out on people who do not deserve
Task C – Short Answer Questions Ci Explain what a social care worker must do if they become aware of unsafe practice. 5 marks A social worker must report it to their line manager or in-charge immediately and corrective measures should be implemented as soon as practically possible, to avoid harm or injury. If it involves poor working practise staff must be trained, if they are resource difficulties the employer must provide the adequate resources. And risk assessments must be carried out and correct the anomalies. Cii Describe what a social care worker must do if unsafe practice is reported but nothing is done to ensure it is corrected.