Title: What makes for good quality care in residential settings? What actually is residential care and who we care for? Residential care is for people who can not continue living in their own home‚ even with support from home care services. You can stay in residential care for a short time known as respite care‚ over a longer period or permanently. There is a wide range of reasons for needing this type of support‚ for example‚ if a person has significant physical disabilities‚ learning disabilities
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place while working in a Residential Care setting. Child and Youth Care (CYC) is an up and coming field that has been around for many years. Like all things in life there are negatives and positives to every job in the field. Most profession out there is a regulated profession. Unlike the Child Youth Care Practitioners profession we are still unregulated. Being unregulated doesn’t do our field any good. In order to be taken seriously we need to be regulated. CYC’s have a variety of roles in the
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explanation of: * what it means to have a duty of care in your own work role 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 forseeably harm others. It’s a requirement to exercise a reasonable degree of attention and caution to avoid negligence which could lead to harm to others. For me as a childminder it basically means I have a duty of care to protect any children in my care from significant
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The current legislation for home based childcare ensures children are cared for in a safe environment by carers who are committed to providing each child with the skills for their future. The Law The Childcare Act 2006‚ all childcare providers must promote the 5 outcomes for children. They are considered to be essential to children becoming happy and successful adults. 1. Help us achieve well and enjoy what we do. 2. Protect us from harm or neglect and help us stay safe. 3. Help us
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Legislation and Policy Research Assignment Health and Safety – 334/1.4:- Explain how current health and safety legislation‚ policies and procedures are implemented in own work setting or service. The current health and safety legislation are implemented into the work setting by the following procedures:- Always following the health and safety policy in our school. We have a first aid procedure that all staff adhere to‚ in all classrooms there is a first aid box‚ used if any accidents occur in the
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E1 The five pieces of current legislation I have chosen are; Children Act (2004)‚ Childcare Act (2006)‚ Disability Discrimination Act (1995)‚ Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) and United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). E2 Children Act (2004) This legislation links in with the every child matters policy. This means that in a setting the practitioner will make sure the child is healthy. They will do this by promoting 5 a day and at snack time have fruit. The practitioner
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community know nothing about it (their family problems are kept private) this becomes a public issue which may require the creation of a “policy for dealing with social issues”‚ when we see young people sleeping rough or the crime rate increases as the homeless person steals to feed them self. Over the years there has been significant research and development of policies which are aimed at combating homelessness among the 16-25 year olds and in 2002 the homelessness Act was endorsed by the Scottish parliament
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Assignment 2 Outline the current policies and legislation relating to children and how these affect your practise. There are many policies and procedures within the UK that outline the current legislation and guidelines to help with safeguarding children:- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989. This law ensures that children are safe and looked after. It states that children have the right to be protected from all forms of physical or mental violence‚ injury
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legislation is the process of making or enacting laws which has been implemented by a legislature or another governing body of the process of making it by the acts of Parliament. Legislation in health and social care is health and safety. You need to ensure that there is always safe practice when providing care or help. There are policies and regulations that you have to follow to make sure you are safe at work as well as service users and others around you‚ this is to help protect the public. An
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What Is delegated legislation? • Delegated (or subordinate or subsidiary) legislation refers to those laws made by persons or bodies to whom parliament has delegated law-making authority • Where acts are made by parliament‚ each principal act makes provision for subsidiary legislation to be made‚ and will specify who has the power to do so under that act • Delegated legislation can only exist in relation to an enabling act • Delegated legislation contains the many administrative details
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