SOCIAL EFFECTS: if people are avoiding walking, talking, caring for them because of the way they are and the person finds out that has just being discriminated against by people around her/him, it will affect their social well-being by not mixing with people or making friends and she/he might end up being lonely without socialising with anyone, e.g. exclusion, withdrawing from public events, and they will not able to form relationships. Also the service user will become isolated, will affect the service user by becoming violence, dependant, bored and she will develop anti-social behaviours.
LANGUAGE EFFECTS: when a person or service user is being discriminated against it affects their stages of well-being in ways of language speak. For example services user who as just being discriminated against they will lose the confidential of speaking with other and will going to affect them in many ways such as loose of speech, pronoun, affect their language by developing poor communication and they will prefer to be silent instead communicating with others around them.
P4) Describe how legislation, code of practice, rules of conduct, charters and organisational policies are used to promote anti-discriminatory practice.
Within the health care sector there is a wide range of policies and procedures in place in different organisation to support equality, diversity and rights. The policies of organisational are that care workers have a duty to promote non-discriminatory work training in their day to day work. They can do this by following non-discrimination work procedures and codes of practice by being friendly and approachable with everyone, regardless of their differences. Care workers responsibility to support people’s rights to fair and equal treatment, having a positive approach and understanding why people think, feel and behave as they do ensure that everyone feels valued and respected, and ensuring that services users are cared for in ways that meet their individual needs.
Many organisation policy and procedure that help to promote individual right, for example charter is set out by the government and informs people of their rights and what they can expect from statutory services that the government provides. It informs services users of the treatments, how long it will take to receive the treatment and what to do if they do not receive the level of care they were expecting. Charter supports the rights of patients in ways of making decisions of their own and helping people to provide a good care for each service users. Charter help information of services users to be kept with confidentially that no one can be access to it or though just carers and doctors that works there they are allowed to access to those filer. By following the guidelines of chart its help care workers to promote anti-discriminatory practice on work in ways of giving service user
The purpose of the code of practice is to set out the conduct that is expected of all health and social care service. It’s also informs service users and the public about the standards of conduct they can expect from health care. It forms part of the wider package of legislation, practice standards and employers’ policies and procedures that health and social care must meet. Health care worker are responsible for making sure that their conduct does not fall below the standards set out in this code and that no action or exclusion on their problems of well being of service users. For example the disability discrimination act was set up to promote the equality of people with disability to gain access on health care. Health care worker have the responsibilities of protect the rights and promote the interests of service users because to set up and maintain the trust and confidence of service users and carers. They also have to promote the independence of service users while protecting them as far as possible from danger or harm and respect the right of services users while seeking to ensure that their behaviour does not harm themselves or other people. “According to BTEC National health and social care book1” the law provides service users, individuals and health care professionals with the basic principles and guidelines which must be followed when dealing with individuals in any given situation.
P5) Explain how those working in health and social care settings can actively promote anti-discriminatory practice.
Within health and social care setting it is important that care workers to promote anti-discriminatory practice in health care sector. Every care worker should have an understanding of the bases of discrimination within society. For example discrimination often applied to older people is to suggest that this should be done to them against their will if it is for their own good. Client choice should always be respected unless there are very good reasons for doing other wise the care has got the right to complete confidentiality to the client’s right. Care workers have a duty to promote non-discriminatory work training in their day to day work. They can do this by following non-discrimination work procedures and codes of practice by being friendly and approachable with everyone, regardless of their differences. Care workers responsibility to support people’s rights to fair and equal treatment, having a positive approach and understanding why people think, feel and behave as they do ensure that everyone feels valued and respected, and ensuring that services users are cared for in ways that meet their individual needs. The carers can promote ant-discriminatory practice by knowing each person religious and culture background knowing. It’s also good for care worker to go through to the patient’s files to find out what is the diet she/ he is on it and to take them on their religion activities so they can feel more motivated. The care standard Act 2000 was set out for care workers to promote equal opportunity toward service users, to being given equal opportunity on access to the health care, housing and so on. For example when a service user/ patient is being discriminating against it always important to report straightway to the manager so they can take action of it. Promoting anti-discriminatory practice in health and social care setting is that care workers must to follow the principle of the care value base by treating every one equally according to individual needs. Knowing what the service user needs is part of care workers responsibility of promoting anti-discriminatory practice at work. For example a carer must acknowledge personal beliefs, preferences and working to provide care in ways that best suits the individual needs of each person. Because each person has right to make their own decision and respect the right and dignity of care service users as individuals and as people. “According to the BTEC National in health and social care” health care worker have a responsibility to promote anti-discriminatory practices.
This can include information service users of their rights, challenging discriminatory practice and keeping themselves up to date with current legislation and policy guidelines to help the best possible service is provided. It is could also be providing by encouraging choices and decision making and working with the service users. For example if a care worker follow the care value base guidelines their will promote a better service by encouraging independent activities and also offering opportunities and strategies for improvements in physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual well-being
P6) Describe ways of reflecting on and challenging discriminatory issues in health and social care.
Care settings must provide service in such a way that all service users get equal benefit for them. For example in care home a carer sees her colleague mistreating the elderly woman saying to the woman to go have a bath because she smells. When another carer worker sees that her/his colleague as being used anti-discriminatory practice in work place, the best way of dealing with it is by reporting to the supervisor or if the care worker knows about the complaints procedure to make the complain. The one of the most beneficial ways in which as social care setting can challenge anti-discriminatory is through staff development and training this may be done properly through supervision sessions or more easily in the course of day to day working.
The most important way of challenging discriminatory issues in health and social care is by ignoring problems. For example it is important to challenge oppressive and discriminatory behaviour whenever it happens. “According to this book of (BTEC National Health Studies)” it is also necessary to have an assertive approach, as challenging people over discriminatory behaviour may lead to defensiveness and possibly even aggression. It is important for the care workers challenging discriminatory behaviour to know how to get support from colleagues and from within the manager structure of their organisation. Care workers have a duty to promote non-discriminatory work training in their day to day work. They can do this by following non-discrimination work procedures and codes of practice by being friendly and approachable with everyone, regardless of their differences. Care workers responsibility to support people’s rights to fair and equal treatment, having a positive approach and understanding why people think, feel and behave as they do ensure that everyone feels valued and respected, and ensuring that services users are cared for in ways that meet their individual needs. For care worker to challenge discriminatory practice in health and social care, a worker must be aware of their beliefs and prejudices, and have to examine them. They also have to be confident in their knowledge of the rights of service users, and of the value, laws, and codes of practice and procedures which support them.
M1) Explain the influences of a recent or emerging national policy development on organisation policy with regard to anti-discriminatory practice.
The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 aims to end the discrimination that many disabled people face. This Act has been significantly extended, and amended by the Disability Discrimination Act 2005. the come to change when people with disability were facing discrimination. The new act now gives disabled people rights in areas of employment, education and access to goods facilities and services etc. disability discrimination act now require public bodies to promote equality of opportunity for disable people. For example before was when a person have physical disability, there where no chance of them to get access to the services because of their mobility. When the act came up in 1995 it aimed to end the discrimination that many people with disability were facing, the policy of orgasinations was to give people with disability the opportunity of access to the services and to have equal opportunity like other people in way of education, employment and also allow the government to set minimum standards so that disable people can use public transport easily and also health centre like GPs, medical centre etc. legislation such as disability discrimination Act has given health and social care provider legal responsibility to positively promote equality to disable client to access to the health and care centre. It’s also gives the giudeline to promote equal opportunity by treating them with respect and dignety. For example conparing disability and sex discrimination both are equal, why I said both are equal because back to the day woman where discriminated against in area of employment for the reason their gender, they used to consider them as house wife to stay at home to look after children, their housband and to take care of their home when man use to go work. When sex discrimination was set out the aim of it was to stop the sex discrimination at work. Even now woman’s are employed at work but there still a bit of discrimination going on because if you will see the majority of people that works part time are women and the most people that gets higher salary are man. Within in health and social care this is called anti-discriminatory practice. When the discrimination act came up woman had opportunity of doing same job with man or though women are less paid than man and the majority of part-time workers are women (81% across Europe, 82% in the UK). In 2003 women working part-time earned just 60% of the average hourly earnings of men who worked full-time. Because the societies are considering them as woman should be at home looking after kids, husband and doing house work. There are many acts that I haven’t mention on, for example equal pay 1970 and age regulation 2006 etc.
M2) Explain difficulties that may be encountered when implementing anti-discriminatory practice.
The difficulties that may be encountered when implementing anti-discriminatory practice in work place is that, for example many people comes across of seeing someone being discrimination against or using anti-discriminatory behaviour in health care setter because they don’t know the method of making complain and it’s becomes a barriers. The different barrier that makes people not to complain when sees something like a service user being mistreated or discriminated to carer are such as being faired of being sacked at work or may be the care work don’t know the complain procedure. For example language can be another barrier as well which can stop elderly woman from making some complain if she being mistreated by care worker, because English is not her first language she might need interpreter to translate for her. Culture it barrier because every one is not the same and not every one gets same treatment. Anti-discriminatory practice can be promoted by treating service user with respect and dignity. As a health or social care worker you must give especial care to make certain that your personal culture and your beliefs do not interfere with the caring service you provide to others. As a care worker you have the responsibility to know about your client’s belief because Britain is a multicultural country which people comes different background. Going back on my P5 I talked about belief how care worker can treat a patient with respect no matter what the person looks like, and what can be done to promote anti-discriminatory practice in their day to day work. Care workers have the responsibility of taking care of their service user/ patient. For example an elderly woman in care home was being discriminated against because of what she beliefs on and care worker as refuses to provide food of her culture. Workers have an obligation to ensure that everyone who can benefit from their service has an opportunity to access it, to be treated in a way
that accords their need for decency and self respect and to practice their own believes. “According to this website ’’ discriminatory language often betrays assumptions that have not been based on accurate knowledge on cultural stereotypes. Non discriminatory language promotes inclusively by the deliberate attempt to ensure that the language used promotes the equality of all people. The human right law gives people the right to practice their own beliefs and religion also gives people the right of not being discriminated, stereotyping or labelling. For example care workers responsibility is to acknowledge service users beliefs and identity. This means that care workers should try to communicate with services users and accept people for who they are and what they believe. Care workers should not discriminate against other people’s religious or culture, e.g. when you are caring for people who have different religious beliefs and lifestyle give them the opportunity to practise their faith and celebrate their religious festival at time when it is important to them.
M3) Analyse how personal beliefs and value systems may influence own anti-discriminatory practice.
On my point of view our personal believe and value systems makes us as individuals to act and behave in certain ways. This could influence culture, environmental and our health well being. “According to this website “Personal beliefs and value systems may influence own anti-discriminatory practice. Everyone has their own values, beliefs and preferences. They are essential to making you who you are. What you believe in, what you see as important and what you see as acceptable or desirable are as much a part of your personality as whether you are shy, outgoing, funny, serious, friendly or reserved. There are several factors that affect everyone's values and beliefs. Although everyone's beliefs are affected to different degrees by a range of factors. These factors can include physical, emotional and social development, environment, relationships, education, religious beliefs and values, cultural background, employment and even social econmic circumstances. In terms of someone's beliefs and values in a health and social care setting, they can play a vital role in the interaction between service users and providers. For example we all have personal values and beliefs and they influence how people lead their lives. A care worker in residential care home has multicultural service user/ patient which each of the service users have different needs and cultures values and beliefs. Because a care worker is Christian in dinner time she provides everyone with same food and did come across realising that not everyone eats pork or meat. This means that care worker is not value service user’s cultures and belief, because a good anti-discriminatory practice is about promoting and supporting service users right and beliefs even you don’t like the religion of the patient you must provide the right service for them so they can feel secure and safe. The principle of the care value base gives the care workers a wide range standard guideline or explains on how they can promote batter health service and how the care workers can respect each patient value and beliefs all the time. Because Britain its multicultural county therefore code of practice and human right legislation to support each person’s right and values in health care services.
D1) Evaluate how a recent emerging policy development influences organisational and personal practice in relation to anti-discriminatory practice.
The disability rights commission was set up to promote the rights of disable people and works to eliminate discrimination against disable people. The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 aims to end the discrimination that many disabled people face. This Act has been significantly extended, and amended by the Disability Discrimination Act 2005. It now gives disabled people rights in the areas of; employment, education, access to goods, facilities and services, buying or renting land or property, including making it easier for disabled people to rent property and for tenants to make disability-related adaptations.
Many disabled people feel that one of the worst aspects of being disabled is the way other people see them. People with disability were discriminated against in areas of: education, employment and so on. For example these limits people with disability socially and in connection with employment. It is a similar account with housing. If a disabled person has an adapted home, which they can manage, this increases their independence. The care workers responsibility in the centre is to treat people with respect and dignity no matter what the person is. The duty of the care worker is to promote and treat each person with dignity according to their individual needs.
They also have to support the rights of individual no matter if hi/she is disabled or not. Everyone have right to make their own choices of life, and service users right must be respected. The code of practice supports the right of individuals in ways of care workers having responsibility of promoting and supporting individuals’ rights. The relationship that a care worker develops with services user is on the basis of all the work that they do as a care provider. Responsibility of care workers at work place is to protect clients from danger and harm, ensure that everyone is to be treated with care that meets their individual needs and allowing services users to communicate in the ways they choose. For example care workers must give service users’ choices about their care and to encourage them to make decisions about themselves. Care workers and service users have to develop partnership in which the service users’ feels equally involved. For example the government changes law when something as happen or when the media shows something on television that someone as being discriminated against. My point of view is why the law changes when something happens or when a person is being discriminated against in health and social care setter. Going back to my M1 the government changes the law when something happens. For example I believe that the government will change the child protection act because of what as happen to the babe P. children’s act I didn’t mention on my assessment but I am just saying because seems like is wrong waiting until something happens. For example last time I was talking with my aunt and she was telling me how much she gets on her salary comparing with what the man gets on her workplace, I asked her why your organisation pay you less then males she told me is the police of the organisation is. If you really see there still a bit of sex discrimination on work placements, when comes in terms of equal payment act there are some organisation that pays woman less than man when both gender are doing same job.
D2) Evaluate practical strategies to reconcile own beliefs and values with anti-discriminatory practice in health and social care.
Values and beliefs are an important reflection in care work. A belief is an understanding that is supposed with strong convection personal beliefs may be connected with a religious faith. Valuing personal belief means that the care worker must respect the religion of service user no matter where the person is from. The strategies to reconcile own beliefs and value its starts from care worker it self, the worker can not promote a batter health service if she or he does not reconcile her or his own personal beliefs and values. Because Britain it self is multicultural county which every one are from different background, culture, beliefs, and religions and so on. So for care worker to promote anti-discriminatory practice in health care on day to day work, the care worker must value the beliefs of service user. For example how the care worker could do that, she or he could do that by finding out where the patient is from, which religion that he or she believes on, what type of food that he eats if she eats pork or not, if the patient speaks English or doesn’t speak English. Like I said on my P5 every care worker should have an understanding of the bases of discrimination within society, it’s also important for care worker to have an understanding of values and beliefs of their patient in health care. This could happen if the care worker follows the principle of care value base guidelines which is to acknowledging individual’s personal beliefs and identity, and there she or he will have some understanding of valuing service user’s beliefs and respecting their choices at all the time and this will promote anti-discriminatory practice on their work. If for instant care worker follows the code of practice, legislation and code of conduct that applies to them and follow what the law says I think they will provide better service in ways of there want be discrimination, stereotype, verbal abuse or labelling to their service users. For example GSCC code of conduct describes ways of care worker should deliver and promote their service in such way, as care worker who works in health care sector have big role to play in their day to day work for the reason they have the responsibility to make sure that no client/patient gates hurt by their colleagues or by anyone. As a care worker they have criteria to guide their practice and be clear about what standards of conduct which are expected to meet. They are encouraged to use the codes to examine their own practice and to look for areas in which they can improve so they can reconcile own belief and values before judging, stereotyping and labelling a service user.
BTEC National Certificate in health and social care book1
BTEC National Health Studies