PRINCIPLES FOR IMPLEMENTING DUTY OF CARE IN HEALTH‚ SOCIAL CARE OR CHILDREN`S AND YOUNG PEOPLE`S SETTINGS UNIT: SHC34 EXPLAIN WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE A DUTY OF CARE IN YOUR OWN WORK ROLE I and my employers have a “Duty of Care” when delivering services to the individuals in our care. We must follow the General Social Care Council’s (GSCC) Codes of Practice‚ our organisational policies and procedures and also Legislations and Acts‚ all of which set out the standards I am to follow. The GSCC regulates
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at the Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW) to determine who was negligent and in specific‚ we use s 5B(1)‚ s 5B(2) and s 5R of the Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW); s 5B(1) for the reasonable foreseeability test‚ s 5B(2) for determining if the standard of reasonable care has been breached and s 5R for contributory negligence. * Where both the parties seem to have been negligent‚ it is important to determine who is more at fault and for this purpose we need to use the ‘but for’ test as in the case of
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TASK 1 As an experienced care worker you have been asked to mentor a new care worker. You plan to use a supervision session to explain about the duty of care and how this helps to protect individuals from harm and abuse. 1. Prepare a set of notes to help you in this supervision session. In these notes‚ you must include an explanation of: What is meant by duty of care? Health and social care organisations have what is called a duty of care towards the people they look after. That means that they
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Assignment 304 Principles for implementing duty of care in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings Assignment composition Assignment overview In this assignment you will consider how your duty of care can conflict with the rights of an individual and what you can do to manage any resultant risk. You will demonstrate an understanding of the complaint procedures and how best to respond to complaints. Tasks There are three tasks to this assignment. A Supervision notes
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THE DUTY OF CARE OWED BY TEACHERS TO STUDENTS For a student to succeed in an action in negligence against a teacher or school authority it is necessary for the student to establish: that the defendant owed a duty of care to the student; that the standard of care was breached; and that this breach has caused the student to suffer some form of damage. The duty of care owed to a student by a teacher is that of a ’reasonable’ teacher. This means that the duty of care owed is the duty one would
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thought it would be useful to keep Tan on Achem’s board as he had many business contacts. He agreed to remain as director of Achem on account of his friendship with Heng and received nly a nominal director’s fees per annum. [Tan – non-exec Dir‚ diff standard expected] Union was‚ at the time it was negotiating with Tan on the purchase of his shares‚ a company in expansion phase. Its investment in Achem was only a small part of its expansion plan. Union was also deliberating on whether to expand its
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Assignment 055 Principles for implementing duty of care in health‚ social care or children and young people’s settings. Task A Duty of care in children or young people’s settings means to apply responsibility to ensure the safe guarding of each individual child. Any organisation or person working with the young person is considered legally and morally to owe them a duty of care. This prevents any harm caused to a child or young person. The law does not require you to be perfect‚ but reasonable
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Question 6‚ April 2006: Solution to fe1 question Bell Computers could attach liability to either Chemical Supply or Industrial Estates under the tort of Rylands v Fletcher. Chemical Supply’s Liability Rylands v Fletcher established that a person who “for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes‚ must keep it in at his peril‚ and if he does not do so ‚ is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence
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meaning of duty of care. 1.1) Define the term duty of care: this is the responsiablelty of an individual under the employment of an care institution to adhere to as well as an legal obligation. This will affect attitudes to the appropriate duty of care towards adult using services also you can include your work colleges and yourself within this. Furthermore this requires work to be based towards the best interests of the individuals using the service so therefore ensuring that care practice isn’t detrimental
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problem deals with the tort of ordinary negligence‚ concerning whether InterUrban is liable in damages to Jim and Betty. Jim’s claim: To prove InterUrban was negligent‚ Jim must‚ on a balance of probabilities‚ show the following: 1) a duty of care was owed to him. Under Donoghue v Stevenson‚ this is shown by fulfilment of the ‘neighbour test’ that it was reasonably foreseeable that InterUrban’s omission to effectively warn of the
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