Unit 5 Health And Social Care Case Study

When working within the care sector it is vital that services provide a reasonable quality of care to the individuals who require support, and to ensure that this is the case services have various policies, procedures, individuals and staff teams that must collaborate together in order produce a high quality of care and maintain it with the ability to evidence as to exactly how this is established and to whom is accountable.
The Quality of a service such as an early education and childcare provider can be detailed as the standard at which that service is at in comparison with other educational service providers and by the regulations set by regulating bodies such as the care inspectorate. Quality assurance of a service is defined by demonstrating the steps taken to maintain a high quality of service such as the self evaluation of a service based on internal and external views, strategies put in place to strive towards a positive outcome based on each individual child’s needs, these strategies provide assurance that services continuously strive to maintain a standard of excellence. ASN workers have a duty to adhere to legislation, policies and procedures set within their service and if at any point they are called upon to justify standard of their service then

. Although in theory these strategies appear to be effective in the protection of vulnerable individuals there are failures in the system where people have been the subject of abuse within a care