GSCC Promote Anti-Discriminatory Practice

Codes of practice for nursing and social work: In addition to organisational guidelines, professional codes of practice you require a professional to work in high level of standards. You need to respect people when using services as individual and minimise

2.1 Identify which legislation and codes of practice relating to equality, diversity and discrimination apply to own role-

As a service we have to comply with these regulations and by having regular meetings such as health and safety, infection control, checks being carried out such as fire compliance, having designated first aiders, file audits, medication audits, live staff observations and regular supervisions to not only provide support to staff and identify any training or support needs but also to highlight any areas that are of concern that could have a detrimental impact on our service

In health and social care, we tend to label individuals without knowing it and the outcome of it can be difficult for individuals to understand. However, labelling can be calling people names which can be offensive to the person and this can be referring to someone as be fat, uneducated, mean and weak. However, labelling people in health and social care setting can affect both the discriminator and the victims in a way that limit communication and appropriate services for the service users. In relation to labelling, if some discriminated against the other, the outcome could be that the individual can end up disrespecting the victim or causing an harm to the victim and the effects is that it can limit the the idea of seeing the real person behind the scene. For example, in a care home if someone refers to an individual of be fat this can be a form of labelling and this can affect the way the individual feels about his or herself. In relation to discriminatory practices some of the reason why discrimination happens in health and social care are because of culture, disability, age, gender, social class, sexuality, health status and family

Analyse how policies, procedures and practices in your own setting meet health, safety and risk management requirements. Presious Healthcare have policies and procedure in their organisation which protects the service users and staff. We receive regular updates regarding changes that are reviewed to support the standards of legislation and comply with CQC regulations and recommendations. Staff are informed of any changes make to policies and procedures and given regular training to update their knowledge. Doing so enables us to do a have a better outlook on the job of caring for the service users and to maintain their safety. The Care Quality Commission(CQC) was established in 2009 to help maintain and regulate services that work in Health and social care establishments. Presious Health care provide the adequate staff to provide the care that’s required for the individual whilst promoting there independent, ensuring they are involved in the decision making, safeguarding staff and service

An ethical dilemma happens when two or more ethical principles conflict with one another. Ethical dilemmas are problematic situations in which it is not clear which choice will be the right one. The CP is stuck as to what to do next because there is not just one outcome that will satisfy the ethical principles as stated in the Singapore Association of Social Workers (SASW) Code of Ethics (Kirst-Ashman & Hull, 2012).

In this assignment I will be discussing the ways that health and social care settings use national initiatives to promote anti-discriminatory practice. An anti-discriminatory practice is preventing discriminations by taking action against this, and this includes race, class, gender, and behaviour towards each other. All employees promote this because it promotes equality for service users and staff by removing discrimination. National initiatives are a legal and an official document and is also a part of anti-discriminatory practice to prevent discrimination and there are policies and legislations that are used to protect people from discrimination in their daily lives, and health and social care settings use national initiatives to ensure

The policy, legislation, regulation and Codes of Practice will assure the protection of the health and social workers and service users at all times form any injury, harm or abuse.

It is important that children and young people are educated and encouraged to learn about cultures and beliefs different to their own. This will promote an anti-discriminatory practice. There are many multi-cultural festivals and celebrations that happen in the UK. In school it is important that all children learn about these celebrations to educate them on other individual’s cultures, for example, Diwali, Hanukah, Christmas and Ramadan. This will give children an insight on others cultures and how they celebrate within their religion. It allows children to realise people can have different faiths and values to their own.

Another Law that Balfour Beatty follow is the Race Discrimination law. Research shows that in 2007, 9% of Balfour Beatty’s employees were of an ethnic origin. Mick (2015) said that Balfour Beatty are aiming for a more diverse culture in the future. This shows that If they do discriminate against workers then they will ruin all their good reputation into bad reputation and their customers will not want them to come which will make an effect on their business sales and profits also they will have less workers. If people start leaving then there will be less workers and workers will not want to come and work there. Discrimination legislation makes it illegal to discriminate against any person in the workplace on grounds of age, sex and disability.

As I have previously mentioned, communication forms the basis of all relationships. Even the very first exchanges of communication between people can determine whether meaningful and trusting relationships will be created or if potential conflicts may rise.

What is the NASW? Why did the NASW create a Code of Ethics for social workers?

Discrimination is behaviour or action that is motivated by unfair beliefs. This can take a range of forms and can take place for a multitude of reasons and usually occurs through lack of knowledge and an understanding of diversity, every childcare professional must be conscious of the fact that a child or young person will experience some form of discrimination against them throughout their time in school, a child may be discriminated against for any reason; because

Age is how old you are determined by year. An example of who may be discriminated against because of their age would be the elderly and the young. For example in a health and social care setting would be if an individual goes to the hospital and they are told their injury isn’t as important as an elderly persons injury because they are more vulnerable. Individuals shouldn’t discriminate against these people because the Equality Act 2010 is in place.

Juvenile Cancer affects those under the age of eighteen. This chronic illness is difficult for the child and parents; however, it becomes even more problematic when ethical disputes are involved. These disputes can cause an uprising amongst social workers and physicians. These disputes can cause dilemmas with social workers ethically and morally. One of the biggest disputes is giving these juvenile cancer patients the ability to decide on their own care. Morally, social workers understand that the child is tired; however, ethically they are unable to allow the patient to stop the treatments without the parents or guardians’ consent. This is where these ethical disputes come into play.