UNIT 2: LO1 Flashcards
What is equality?
Treating people differently to meet their individual needs. It ensures that everyone is treated fairly and given the same opportunities regardless of their differences.
What is diversity?
Respecting and accepting people’s differences, recognising and valuing that every individual is unique.
What are rights?
What everyone is legally entitled to and in included in legislation.
What does PRECCC stand for?
- Protection from harm and abuse
- Right to life
- Equal and fair treatment
- Choice
- Confidentiality
- Consultation
What are the 3 care values for adults?
- Promoting equality and diversity
- Promoting individual rights and beliefs
- Maintaining confidentiality
What are the 9 care values for children?
- Making the welfare of the child paramount
- Keeping children safe and maintaining a healthy environment
- Working in partnership with parents
- Encouraging children’s learning and development
- Valuing diversity
- Ensuring equality of opportunity
- Anti-discriminatory practice
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Working with other professionals
What are support networks (examples) and what do they do?
- Advocacy services, support groups and informal support.
- Ensures that equality, diversity and rights are promoted in care settings.
What are some examples of organisations that provide advocacy services?
SEAP, Mencap, Empower Me and British Institute of Learning Disabilities.
What are some examples of support groups?
Mind, Age UK and Headway.
What is informal support?
When individuals offer support without pay (volunteer). May be professionally trained. E.g. family, friends
What is included with informal support?
- Personal care
- Shopping
- Collecting prescriptions
- Doing laundry
- Preparing meals
- Cleaning
- Driving
What is an advocate?
Someone who speaks on behalf of an individual who is unable to speak for themselves.
Who are people who may need an advocate?
- Young children
- Individuals with Alzheimer’s
- Individual lacking mental capacity, unable to make decisions for themselves as do not always understand what is going on.
- Individuals with mental health problems
How can an advocate help an individual?
- Going to meetings with them or attending for them
- Helping individual find/access information.
- Writing letters/messages on individual’s behalf
- Speaking on behalf of an individual at a case conference
What will an advocate do?
- Be completely independent and represent individual’s views
- Ensure individual’s rights and needs recognised
- Respect individual’s wishes and views
- Speak on behalf of an individual who cant speak for themselves
- Act in best interests of person who they are representing
What will an advocate not do?
- Give own personal opinion
- Speak for individual
- Judge individual
- Make decisions for individual
What is inclusion?
Ways of working that provide equal opportunities so that people are involved and feel like they belong.
What is independence?
Not relying on others and having the freedom to make your own choices.
What is empowerment?
A service provider enabling and supporting individuals to be in control of their own lives.
What is respect?
Having regard for the feelings, wishes and rights of others.
What is dignity?
Care that promotes and does not undermine a person’s self respect.
What is safeguarding?
- Reporting concerns to prevent harm/danger
- Duty of care to report any concerns
- Must be escalated quickly and efficiently
What is PAT testing?
Portable appliance testing - checking of electrical appliances and equipment to ensure they are safe to use.
What is need-to-know basis?
Only passing on information to other professionals if they need to know the information to support the service user.
All information is kept private unless care giver/parent needs to be updated about service user.
