Paper 1 Flashcards
What is the meaning of equality?
To ensure that a person is treated fairly, given the same opportunities regardless of differences and treated according to their individual needs.
Define diversity:
Respecting and recognising individual differences.
Define empowerment:
Care workers enabling and supporting individuals to be in control of their lives.
Define independence:
Not relying on others and having freedom to make your own decisions.
Define dignity:
Care that promotes and does not undermine a person’s self respect
What are the 6 normal rights that individuals have?
- Choice
- Confidentiality
- Protection from abuse and harm
- Equal and fair treatment
- Consultation
- Right to life
What are the values of care?
- promoting equality and diversity
- promoting individual rights and beliefs
- maintaining confidentiality
What are some ways that someone could promote equality and diversity?
Improve accessibility (wheel chair ramps and hearing loops)
Offer a variety of foods for different cultures (halal meat or kosher)
What are some ways that someone could promote individual rights and beliefs?
Mobility, dietary and communication needs are met
Cultural and religious dietary needs met
What are some ways that someone could promote maintaining confidentiality?
Work on a need to know basis
Keep all private info locked away in a file that is inside a locked room
Name 5 of the 9 child care values of care:
- 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’s learning and development
- Valuing diversity
- Ensuring equality and opportunity
- Anti-discriminatory practise
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Working with other professionals
Define what an advocate is:
Someone who speaks on behalf of an individual who in unable to speak up for themselves.
Who might need an advocate?
- young children
- individuals with a learning disability or physical disability
- people with a condition such as Alzheimer’s
- People who lack mental capacity
How can an advocate support an individual?
- Going with an individual to meetings or for them
- Helping them find info
- Writing letters on their behalf
- Speaking on behalf of the individual to express their best wishes
What are some things that an advocate will not do?
- Judge the individual
- Give their own personal opinion
- Make decisions for the individual
What are some of the main support groups?
Mind
Headway
Age UK
They all help empower individuals to take back control of their lives.
What is informal support?
Support by individuals who are not paid to do so and aren’t professionally trained.
What are some examples of informal support?
- Personal care
- Shopping
- Collecting prescriptions
- Preparing meals
- Doing laundry
- keeping someone company or having a chat
- Mowing the lawn
- Dusting and cleaning
Name some basis of discrimination:
- Race
- Culture
- Disability
- Social class
- Age
- Gender
- Sexual orientation
- Religion
What are types of discrimination?
Abuse
Direct discrimination
Indirect discrimination
Prejudice
Stereotyping
Labelling
Bullying
Name some possible affects that individuals may feel after being discriminated against:
Disempowerment
Low self esteem
Poor health and wellbeing
Unfair treatment
Effects on mental health
Define legislation:
A collection of laws passed by Parliament that protect rights and entitlements of individuals.
Describe the care act 2014:
Outlines the way that local authorities should carry out carer’s assessments.
- Continuity of care
- Duty on local authorities
- Advocates
- Adult safeguarding
Describe the health and social care act 2012 and give its two main principles:
- Enables patients to have more control over their care
- Those responsible for patient care have the freedom and power to commission care that meets local needs
- “No decision about me without me”
- health and wellbeing boards
Describe the equality act 2010:
- Makes discrimination against the 9 protected characteristics ilegal
- Prohibits discrimination
- Reasonable adjustments have to be made
- Women have the right to breastfeed in public places
Describe the mental capacity act:
- A presumption of capacity should be given
- Support to make own decisions
- Unwise decisions should be treated the same
- Best interests
- Less restrictive options
Describe the children act 2004:
- Aims to protect children at risk of harm
- Paramounty principle
- The child has the right to be consulted
- Children have the right to an advocate
- Encourages partnership working
- Created the childrens commissioner
Describe the data protection act 1998:
- Processed fairly and lawfully
- Used only for purposes for which it was intended
- Accurate and kept up - to - date
- Kept for no longer than necessary
- Secured
Describe the childrens and families act 2014:
- The commissioner has to focus on the rights of all children
- Allows parents to have time off to go to appointments
- Parental leave
Describe the human rights act 1998:
- Right to life
- Right to respect and privacy
- Right to liberty
- Right to freedom (of expression)
Explain the care certificate’s role:
Sets out the minimum standards that should be covered in induction training.
Name 5 of the 15 standards of the care certificate:
- Understand your role
- Your personal development
- Duty of care
- Equality and diversity
- Work in a person - centered way
- Communication
- Privacy and dignity
- Fluids and nutrition
- Awareness of mental health
- Safeguarding adults
- Safeguarding children
- Basic life support
- Handling information
- Health and safety
- Infection prevention and control
Where does Ofsted inspect?
In school settings
What aspects are inspected by Ofsted?
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare
- Outcomes for children and learners
- Effectiveness of safeguarding
What is the role of the CQC?
- Registers and licenses care services to ensure essential standards of quality and safety are met
- Carries out inspections of health and social care settings to monitor that the care provided supports
- Publishes inspection reports that rate care settings from outstanding to inadequate
- Can issue warning notices and fines if standards are not met
Describe the role of the EHRC:
Provides info and guidance about discrimination and what to do about it
Describe the role of NICE:
- Assess’s new drug treatments
- Provides guidance
- Improve’s NHS users outcomes
- Ensures that they are getting the correct value for money
What are 3 of the impacts of legislation and national initiatives?
- Person centered approach to care
- Individual needs are met
- Empowerment
- Accessible services
- Provides a system of redress
- Guidelines for practitioners
- Raises standards of care
What are some rules towards the interview procedures that comply with the equality act?
- Advertisements and interviews must not discriminate against any of the nine protected characteristics
- Interviewers should be trained in equality and diversity
- A mixed interview panel
Name 3 examples of best practise:
- Being non - judgemental
- Respecting the views and decisions of individuals
- Anti - discriminatory practise
- Valueing diversity
- Using effective communication
- Following agreed ways of working
Name 2 examples of discriminatory practice:
- Stereotyping, labelling and prejudice
- Inadequate care
- Abuse and neglect
- Breach of health and safety
- Being patronising
What are the 3 ways of challenging discriminatory practice?
1) Challenge at the time
2) Challenge afterwards through procedures
3) Challenge through long - term proactive campaigning
