Current Legislation & national initiatives Flashcards
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what does legislation mean?
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protect the rights of both individuals receiving care and providers of care and support
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The Care Act 2014?
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- promotes well-being, independence, and choice for adults needing care and support
- emphasises advocacy for those unable to communicate their needs.
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how does The Care Act 2014 support individual’s rights?
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- ensures access to services that promote dignity, respect, and independence
- safeguards vulnerable adults from harm, abuse, and neglect, reinforcing their right to safety
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The Health & Social Care Act 2012?
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- restructures the health service by introducing Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) led by general practitioners to prioritise local health needs
- places a duty on organizations to reduce health inequalities
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how does The Health & Social Care Act 2012 support individual’s rights?
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- promotes patient choice, allowing individuals to have a say in their treatment and care
- supports the right to equal access to healthcare services, helping to address disparities and reduce inequalities
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The Equality Act 2010?
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- consolidates previous anti-discrimination laws into one act, covering protected characteristics such as age, disability, race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation
- outlaws direct and indirect discrimination, harassment, and victimization
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how does The Equality Act 2010 support individual’s needs?
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- protects individuals from discrimination, ensuring equal treatment and opportunities
- encourages inclusive services where everyone can access support without prejudice
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The Mental Capacity Act 2005?
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- provides a framework for supporting individuals who may lack the mental capacity to make
their own decisions - introduces guidelines for consent and protects individuals from coercion
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how does The Mental Capacity Act 2005 support individual’s needs?
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- ensures that individuals’ autonomy is respected whenever possible and supports their right to
make decisions - ensures that decisions made on someone’s behalf are in their best interest
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The Children Act 2004?
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- establishes duties to safeguard children and promote their well-being
- encourages the participation of children and families in decisions affecting them
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how does The Children Act 2004 support individual’s needs?
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- supports children’s involvement in decisions that impact their lives, respecting their views and preferences
- promotes the welfare of children, reinforcing the principle of ‘best interests’ in care planning
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The Data Protection Act 1998?
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- introduces principles for data collection, storage, and processing
- provides individuals with the right to access their personal data
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how does The Data Protection Act 1998 support individual’s rights?
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- protects individuals’ right to privacy, ensuring their personal information is handled responsibly
- empowers individuals to access their data and request corrections to inaccurate information
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Human Rights Act 1998?
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- enshrines fundamental rights such as the right to life, freedom from torture, right to liberty, and respect for private and family life
- allows individuals to seek legal redress if their rights are breached
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how does the Human Rights Act 1998 support individual’s rights?
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- upholds dignity and respect for all individuals, reinforcing protections against abuse or inhumane treatment
- provides legal backing for individuals
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how does the Human Rights Act 1998 support ‘right to life’?
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- administering medication accurately and safely
- following care plans
- work in a person-centred way
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Children and Families Act 2014?
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- addresses the needs of children and families, focusing on vulnerable groups
- emphasizes family support, parental leave, and adoption processes
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how does the Children and Families Act 2014 support individual’s rights?
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- protects the rights of children with additional needs by ensuring tailored support
- empowers parents through support and choice, promoting family stability and well-being
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The Care Certificate 2014?
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- sets out the standards and skills required for new
healthcare and social care workers, covering 15 core standards - includes fundamental skills and knowledge areas like safeguarding, communication, health
and safety, infection control, and understanding equality and diversity
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how does The Care Certificate 2014 improve quality of care?
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ensures that all care workers have a consistent foundation of skills and knowledge, helping them provide safe, compassionate, and person-centered care
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how does The Care Certificate 2014 support rights to safety and respect?
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through training in safeguarding, infection control, and equality, the Care Certificate protects individuals’ rights to safety and dignified treatment
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how does The Care Certificate 2014 promote accountability?
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by setting clear standards, the Care Certificate makes it easier to monitor and maintain staff accountability in meeting basic care expectations
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what are quality assurance bodies?
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inspect, regulate, and set standards for healthcare and social care services,
contributing to accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement in service quality
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Ofsted?
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- inspects and regulates services that care for children and young people, as well as educational
institutions - assess the quality of care, safeguarding standards, and outcomes for children and young people
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how does Ofsted promote safe and effective care for children?
ensures that children in care and educational settings receive quality care, are safeguarded, and experience positive outcomes
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how does Ofsted inform famlies and support transparency?
reports provide families with essential information, allowing them to make informed decisions about services
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how does Ofsted support children's rights to education and well-being?
by setting high standards for educational settings
and children’s services, Ofsted ensures that children’s rights to learning, safety, and development are protected
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Care Quality Commission (CQC)?
- regulates and inspects health and social care services in England
- inspections focus on five key areas: safety, effectiveness, caring, responsiveness, and
leadership
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how does CQC ensure high stadards of care and safety?
help maintain high
standards, ensuring services are safe, effective, and respectful of individual rights
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how does CQC promote accountability and transparency?
ratings allow individuals to make informed decisions about their care providers
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how does CQC support individual rights to dignity and compassionate care?
focus on person-centered care ensures that care providers treat people with dignity and respect
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Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)?
- regulatory body that upholds equality and human rights laws in the UK
- enforcement powers to challenge discrimination and promote equality and human rights in public services, including health and social care
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how does EHRC protect against discrimination?
ensures individuals
in health and social care are treated fairly, regardless of age, race, disability, gender, etc
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how does EHRC support inclusive practices and policies?
provides guidance to health and social care providers, helping them create environments that respect and support diversity
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how does EHRC advocate for human rights in care?
helps ensure that people’s rights to dignity, respect, and equal treatment are prioritized in care settings
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National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)?
- provides evidence-based guidance and quality standards for health, public health, and social care in England
- creates guidelines on effective treatments and interventions, including cost-effective care
practices
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how does NICE promote evidence-based care?
ensure that individuals receive the most effective treatments and interventions available, supporting quality and safety in care
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how does NICE support the right to informed care?
helps to ensure that individuals receive care based on current knowledge and best practices
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how does NICE encourage consistency in standards?
create consistency across
healthcare and social care, ensuring that all individuals receive a high level of care regardless of where they are treated
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person-centred approach to care and provision and individual needs met?
- promoting and protecting individual's rights
- gives individual's more control and improves quality of life
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empowerment?
how a carer encourages an individual to make informed choices and decisions
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how does The Mental Capacity Act 2005 empower individuals?
have the right to make their own decisions when able, and it requires others to act in their best interest if they
lack capacity
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how does The Health and Social Care Act 2012 empower individuals?
empowers individuals to make informed decisions about their own care
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how do organisations like Healthwatch empower individuals?
giving individuals a platform to express concerns or suggest improvements
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accessible services?
reasonable adaptations have to be made to accommodate disabilities
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how does The Equality Act 2010 promote accessible services?
requires reasonable adjustments to make services accessible to people with disabilities
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how does NICE promote accessible services?
provides guidelines on service accessibility, ensuring health and social care organizations consider
physical access, communication, and support needs to provide equal access
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how do inspection bodies like CQC promote accessible services?
ensure that organizations
address and adapt to various needs, including language barriers and physical disabilities
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provides a system of redress?
if individual's rights are breached, the law can be enforced by taking legal action through court
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how do the CQC and Ofsted provide a system of redress?
provide mechanisms for complaints and investigations, allowing individuals to seek redress when care standards are not met
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how does the EHRC provide a system of redress?
enforce compliance with equality laws, enabling individuals who experience discrimination to seek justice
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how does The Human Rights Act 1998 provide a system of redress?
allows individuals to challenge any infringement of their human rights in court
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how does The Mental Capacity Act 2005 provide clear guidelines for practitioners to follow?
makes it clear who can take decisions, in which situations, and how they should go about it
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how does The Data Protection Act 1998 provide clear guidelines for practitioners to follow?
provides detailed regulations about how to handle information about individuals
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how does The Care Certificate 2014 provide clear guidelines for practitioners to follow?
demonstrates that the care worker knows exactly how to carry out their work to the highest standard
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how do NICE guidelines and CQC standards provide clear guidelines for practitioners to follow?
offer practitioners evidence-based best practices, which help ensure that care is effective, safe, and aligned with the latest medical and social care research
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how does Ofsted raise stabdards of care?
- promote service improvement
- ensures services focus on the interests of the users
- ensures that services are efficient and effective
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how does CQC raise standards of care?
- monitors and inspects services
- sets out the standards of care required
- checks that services meet the required standard of quality and safety
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how does staff selection and interview procedures must comply with The
Equality Act 2010?
- questions asked at interview must be non-discriminatory, the same for all candidates and cannot be personal questions
- interview panel should be trained inequality and diversity
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organisational policies?
ensure that health, social care or childcare environments have attended to how they will provide the best quality of care in a way that promotes equality and supports individuals rights
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what are benefits to organisational policies?
- help to prevent an individual being discriminated against
- ensure they are treated according to their needs
- help to service user feel safe and secure
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what are benefits of organisational policies for the care worker?
- help them do their job more effectively
- guide them on good practice and help them to provide quality care at all times
- ensure that all staff are working to the same high standards and consistency of care
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what are benefits of organisational policies for the organisation?
- help them to provide a quality service to children/parents /patients
- help the organisation run smoothie/effectively
- protect the organisation against complaints
