When assessing a child you must be careful to take into account confidentiality before carrying out an observation you must have parents and the settings permission and not to leave confidential material lying around they must be secured in a locked cabinet. Only talk to authorized personal about confidential material. This confidentially can only be broken when a child is at real risk. When carrying out observations you must take account of the child’s wishes and feelings if a child is upset or wants
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Duty of care Duty of care means providing care and support for individuals within the law and also within the policies procedures and agree ways of working of your employer‚ it is about avoiding abuse and injury to individuals‚ their friends and family and their properties. People do not have their needs met by others‚ so you have care of duty to them. This involves doing your job to best of your ability‚ safe guarding them‚ respecting their uniqueness and worth as a person‚ maintaining their dignity
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Principles for implementing duty of care in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings 1 Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice (a) What it means to have a duty of care in one’s own work role A duty of care is a legal obligation to all Health and Social carers and professionals who have to act in the best interests of individuals and others‚ also not to act or fail to act in a way that results in harm. This duty of care can be a general implied
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Emotional abuse can be just as harmful as physical abuse. Emotional abuse can not be seen on the surface as can physical abuse. The use of symbolic acts like verbal threats‚ humiliation‚ infidelity‚ and withdrawal of resources is the underlying factor for this type of abuse. "Approximately 1.5 million American victims experience abuse by their partners each year "(Queen‚ 2009‚ p. 238). Emotional abuse can affect the well-being of the victim. Numerous victims reported still having persisting
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Child Safety Seats For Big Kids Child Safety Seats for Big Kids Child Safety Seats are the best protection a parent can provide to a child when traveling in a vehicle. Child Safety Seats are specifically designed to protect a child from becoming injured in a vehicle collision by ensuring that the child’s brain and spinal cord is protected. This paper will explain the importance of Child Safety Seats and attempt to persuade the reader to ensure that children stay in safety seats until the age
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A duty of care is a legal obligation imposed on an individual requiring that they adhere to a standard of reasonable care while performing any acts that could foreseeable harm others. A definition from Wikipedia. A duty of care is required in every work place and a greater duty or care is needed especially with younger children being as they are more vulnerable. A duty of care ensures support and care for individuals are provided at the required level within the law and also within the policies and
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Employer’s Duty of Care To what extent are employees required to perform their job with a duty of care? We all know that corporate officers have a duty of care to the corporation that they are employed by. They have an obligation to perform their duties with the care that a person in a like position would reasonably exercise under similar circumstances (Halbert & Ingulli‚ 2010‚ p 52). As a fellow employee down on the totem pole‚ we are held to the same standard to act in good faith in
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in Health and Social Care‚ Children and Young People (Also see additional guidance notes for individual units) Unit 4222-304 Principles for implementing duty of care in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings. Assignment – Short Answer Questions LO 1 1.1 Explain what it means to have a duty of care in your work role. Duty of care is defined as ‘legal obligation to take reasonable care to avoid causing damage’. Duty of care in my role at work includes
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responsibilities of others‚ relating to health and safety in the work setting 1. Identify legislation relating to general health and safety in a health or social care work setting. Legislations/codes of practice relating to general health and safety in a health or social care work setting are: The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974; Riddor 1995‚ COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health); Manual Handling operations regulations 1992; Health And Safety (First aid regulations 1981); Fire protection
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Emotional and physical abuse have many similarities and differences with the long term effects of someone who wants to be in control and noticing the signs of abuse. “Someone may think that physical abuse is far worse than emotional abuse‚ since physical violence can send someone to the hospital and leave a person with scars. The scars of emotional abuse are very real though‚ and they run deep. In fact‚ emotional abuse can be just as damaging as physical abuse—sometimes even more so” says ("Domestic
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