What do you think? an advert in the KM reads “Childminder required: preferably a young Spanish woman, must be qualified and bilingual.” * is the employer

What do you think?an advert in the KM reads “Childminder required: preferably a young Spanish woman, must be qualified and bilingual.”

* is the employer discriminating against any groups in the search?* are any laws being broken?

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Health & Social Care • Unit 2

Health and social care services will then use these policies to create their own specific codes of practice and procedures, which are more detailed and focused on their particular organisation.Codes of practice and procedures in the setting are the ‘hands on’ tools for ensuring ‘good practice’ within the legal framework.

3.1 Conventions, legislations & regulations.3.2 Codes of practice & charters3.3 Organisational polices & procedures


3.1 Health and social care services must operate within the legal framework of conventions, legislation and regulations to include relevant sections from:e.g.

European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950Sex Discrimination Act 1975Mental Health Act 1983Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986The Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989The Children Act 1989, Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000Disability Discrimination Act 2005Human Rights Act 1998Data Protection Act 1998Nursing and Residential Care Homes Regulations 1984 (amended 2002)Care Standards Act 2000The Children Act 2004Disability Discrimination Act 2005Mental Capacity Act 2005Age Discrimination Act 2006.


3.1 Health and social care services must operate within the code of conduct established by the relevant professional body:

Codes of Practice and Rules of Conduct e.g The Nursing & Midwifery Council Code of Conduct.General Social Care Council

* General Social Care Council in England* Care Council for Wales* Northern Ireland Social Care Council

Charters e.g. The Patients Charter


3.3 Health and social care services will also create their own organisational policies and procedures based on the national conventions, legislation, regulations and professional bodies' codes of practice. These policies positively promotes

* individual rights* advocacy* work practices* staff development and training* quality issues* complaints procedures* affirmative action* anti-harassment* confidentiality* human rights


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Legislation, Policies & Codes of Practices Compare and contrast:•What is a Legislation? What is a Guideline?•What is a Policy? What is a Procedure?•What is a Code of Practice? What is a Charter?•What is a Convention? What is a Regulation?

You are now going to research one of the following Codes of Practice to produce a one page summary to share with others in your group.•Nursing & Midwifery•Social Care & Social Work•Teaching•Nursery

Which values can be found in all Codes of Practice?Which values are unique to certain professions?

Plenary: Assess how do you think these rules and regulations influence the provision of care?

Vocational Context:Since September you have been volunteering in a health and social care setting of your choice. It is now necessary for you to reflect on the services provided your chosen establishment. In this scenario you have been appointed as your workplace’s equal opportunities officer and have been asked to put together a presentation and information booklet to help train staff at your workplace. This will form part of the establishment’s ongoing CPD programme, regarding equality, diversity, rights and anti-discriminatory practice. You will be required to critically evaluate how your chosen provider promotes equality, diversity and rights in line with current UK legislation. You will be required to make realistic suggestions on how the issues identified may be addressed.

Assignment 2: National initiatives and anti-discriminatory practice (P4, P5, M2, M3, D1 and D2)

Produce an information booklet for your chosen placement In your booklet, you should include an explanation of how national initiatives promote anti-discriminatory. (P4)

Your work should cover - conventions, legislation and regulations- codes of practice and charters- organisational policies and procedures

Remember to only make reference to those relevant to your chosen setting.


• Extend your booklet to include an assessment of the influence of a recent national policy initiative promoting anti-discriminatory practice.(M2)

You need to identify, describe and explain one recent initiative, that is a Law or Regulation (see table 2.2 p72/73) that is relevant to your chosen setting. You need to provide detailed reasons as to how and why your chosen initiative provides this piece of anti-discriminatory practice. Consider in detail the different aspects of the initiative, identifying which aspect is most important and relevant to your service users and the staff that are employed there.

•To extend your work to a distinction you need to add an evaluation of the success of the recent initiative in promoting anti-discriminatory practice. Evaluation requires you to critically consider how successful the initiative has been at promoting equality for all at your placement. At distinction level you are required to present clear reasoned arguments based on referenced research in a vocational context. (D1)


Extend your booklet to include a description of how anti-discriminatory practice is promoted in your chosen health and social care setting. (P5)

Your work should cover- Active promotion of anti-discriminatory practice.- Personal beliefs and values.

Remember to only make reference to those relevant to your chosen setting.


For the merit level task, you must include a discussion of the difficulties that may arise when implementing anti-discriminatory practice in your chosen health and social care setting. You should then consider how and why these difficulties may differ in different settings. You may wish to consider such issues as the role of the CVB, the multicultural nature of the service users/providers, the effect of prejudice and unfair discrimination, barriers to access, making complaints and enforcing rights. (M3)

For the distinction level task you must include a justification of ways of overcoming difficulties that may arise when implementing anti-discriminatory practices in health and social care settings. You should also consider how making complaints, enforcing rights, the legal context of care and organisational policies/procedures can promote equality, diversity and rights in both your chosen setting and in a range of other Health & Social Care providers. (D2)

Your work must cover the range as outlined in the outcome criteria as listed above.Work must be referenced using the Harvard System

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What do you think? an advert in the KM reads “Childminder required: preferably a young Spanish woman, must be qualified and bilingual.” * is the employer