UNIT 9, P3: Explain how one piece of legislation, one policy and one code of practice could be applied to planning support for an individual

Confidentiality policy: In a health and social care setting confidentiality is very important, no worker are allowed to share service’s user personal information because it is very essential part of the provision of health and social care as it benefits the individuals  and also allow the workers to be able to do their work effectively.  But it is crucial to keep the service’s user personal information in a total confidentiality for numerous reasons. Furthermore in health and social organisation it is the policy that every care worker should protect their service users as a relationship between their selves and their client, and professionals should be one of trusted and loyalty. The service users’ have the right and expectations that their personal information’s should not be disclosed to any strangers without their consent and agreement to do it. However for this reasons the professionals in health and social care settings have their legal duty and ethnic obligation to safeguard their services users’ confidentiality. In addition the right to confidentiality is guaranteed in several legislation and bleaching this policy with appropriate reason can lead to disciplinary legal action to take place against the health and social care professional.

General social care council codes of practice: in a health and social care setting, the organisation need to make sure that a social work code need to be implemented in the care settings.  Code of practice is applied in organisation to give guidance to workers of the setting. Code of practice state what is important and expected from the workers and how to perform their duties. And also it ensures that all employees should carry themselves with positive attitudes and mind set considering that code of practice are guidelines that influence professionals decision making on daily basis. However this applied in the support plan of individual through health and social care professional behaviour for example nurses should not be judgemental toward their patients lifestyle or choices they make, regarding their religious status.