LO1 Flashcards
What is meant by the term ‘Equality’?
- To ensure people are treated equally and fairly
- Give everyone the same opportunities regardless of their differences
- Don’t discriminate against due to peoples differences
What is meant by the term ‘Diversity’?
- Recognising and respecting individuals differences
- Value peoples diversities by accepting and respecting differences
What is meant by the term ‘Rights’?
- this is what everyone is entitled to and it is a legal requirement as they are set out by legislation
Name the different types of diversities
- Race
- Age
- Religion
- Social class
- Disability (Mental and physical impairment)
- Sexuality
- Gender
Name the different rights
- Choice
- Confidentiality
- Protection from harm and abuse
- Equal and fair treatment
- Consultation
- Right to life
What do the different rights mean?
- Choice: gives people control over their lives and promotes independence and empowerment
- Confidentiality: Private information should only be shared on a need to know basis or should only be shared with the individuals involved
- Protection from harm and abuse: Care settings should have safeguarding procedures put in place that should follow health and safety legislations
- Equal and fair treatment: Individuals should be treated the same and within the law
- Consultation: Individuals using HSC services should be asked for their opinions about their care and treatment
- Right to life: Individual lives should be protected by human right laws
What are the benefits of understanding diversity?
- Empowerment
- Independence
- Inclusion
- Opportunity
- Dignity
- Access and participation
What are the values of care?
- Promoting equality and diversity
- Promoting individuals rights and beliefs
- Maintaining confidentiality
What does ‘Promoting Equality and Diversity’ include?
- Setting equal opportunities and damage discriminatory behaviour
- Having access to all meal options e.g. halal, kosher, vegan, vegetarian
- Installing ramps, hearing loop, large formats, braille
What does ‘Promoting individuals rights and beliefs’ include?
- All areas are accessible for everyone
- Celebrate different festivals e.g. Chinese New Year
- Mobility, dietary and communication needs are met
What does ‘Maintaining confidentiality’ include?
- Share a patients private information only on a ‘need-to-know’ basis
- Patient files must kept in a safe and secure was e.g. filing cabinet
What are the different care values in childcare?
- Making the welfare of the child paramount
- Keeping children safe and maintaining a healthy environment
- Working in partnership with parents/guardians and families
- Encouraging children learning and development
- Valuing diversity
- Ensuring equality of opportunity
- Anti-discriminatory practice
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Working with other professionals
What does ‘Making the welfare of the child paramount’ include?
- Ensuring safe guarding procedures are in place
- Staff must have DBS checks
- Children should never be humiliated, abused or smacked
What does ‘Keeping children safe and maintaining a healthy environment’ include?
- Staff members wear lanyards
- Visitors wear visitor lanyards
- Ensuring CCTV is in place
- PAT testing on equipment
- Risk assessment are in place
What does ‘working in partnership with parents/guardians and families’ include?
- Praise certificate
- Daily diary of children outcome
- Parents evening
What does ‘encouraging children learning and development’ include?
- Providing a range of activities
- Learning/ teaching about different festivals
- Games and toys should be accessible
What does ‘Valuing diversity’ include?
- Display toys and resources in nurseries to reflect on different cultures and beliefs
- Wide range of food choices from a range of cultures
- Wide range of festivals should be celebrated e.g. Diwali, Christmas, Eid
What does ‘Ensuring equality and diversity’ include?
- Activities should be differentiated to meet children needs
- Ensure all activities and setting are accessible to all children
- Ensure all children are able to take part the activities
What does ‘Anti-discriminatory practice’ include?
- Children are treated fairly
- Staff shouldn’t have favourites
- Any discriminatory actions by staff, children or parents/ guardians should be challenged
- Staff should show inclusive behaviour
What does ‘Maintaining confidentiality’ include?
- Private information should only be shared on a need-to-know basis
- private information should placed somewhere safe and secure e.g. a filing cabinet
What does ‘Working with other professionals’ include?
- Sharing information sensitively to police, GP, social workers
- Example: staff members may have safeguarding concerns of a child at home so the school may have to work with police, social workers to ensure the child is safe
What are support networks?
- There are a range of support which is available to help individuals by providing advice, information and practical support
What are the 3 types of support networks?
- Advocacy Services
- Support groups
- Informal support
What are ‘Advocacy services’?
- These are people who can speak on behalf of an individuals who is unable to make decisions for themselves e.g. a child, a patient with dementia
Who may need an advocate?
- Young children
- Learning disability
- Physical disability
- Dementia
- Alzheimers
What are some examples of Advocacy service organisations?
- SEAP
- Mencap
- Empower Me
- British Institute of learning disabilities
What are Support groups?
- They provide local and national support groups where people with common experiences or common concerns will meet up and discuss them with each other
- They allow people to understand that they aren’t alone and that other people are having the same emotions
What are some examples of support groups?
- Mind
- Age UK
- Headway
- Rethink Mental Illness and Macmillan Cancer Support
What is informal support?
- This is support that others give to people when they aren’t paid and they do it out of love for someone
- People who provide informal support are usually friends, family and neighbours
What kind of support does informal support provide?
- Personal care (showering, getting dressed)
- Shopping
- Collecting prescriptions
- Doing laundry
- Keeping someone company
- Mowing the lawn
