...Anti discriminatory practices in health and social care What is an anti-discriminatory practice? This is an action that is taken for the prevention of discrimination on the grounds of race, class, gender, and disability. It takes into account our behaviour in society towards other people and it is very important that all employees in the health and social care setting promote this in the work place and this is so that they overcome any prejudice. By doing this they are promoting equality for all the service users and the staff who are providing this service. What is a National Initiative? There are three main national initiatives that come under the sector of anti-discriminatory practices. There are legislation, convention and regulations. There are also codes of practice, charters and organisational policies and procedures. These initiatives are important in today’s society in the health and social care sector as it ensures that every individual is treated equally and there is no inequality being created between individuals and this is in regard to their race, colour, gender, disabilities, social class, and culture or health status. Codes of conduct are a guide to service providers and what is expected of them in their roles, rights and responsibilities. The codes also help the service users to understand what kind of service they should expect and how they should be treated by staff. For example; The General Social Care Council helps social workers by providing them...
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...initiatives promote anti discriminatory practices. Legislation is set by the government to regulate how care services are run nationally. Each service has a different charter or set of responsibilities that enable it to understand its roles and responsibilities. The client’s rights are also set in law. This way the client knows his/her rights and can complain if services are not up to standard. General Social Care Council The council has codes of practice that are written in law to help those in need of care understand the way that social care workers need to perform their tasks. These are rules that regulate conduct and training for the care worker. The same rules educate the clients to know what to expect from the care worker. This way the client has a right to complain about services if needed. The GSCC has rules that apply to England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Rules and guidelines are set out and organised as follows: Legislation The law of the governing country set by convention Conventions These are usually legal standards drawn up by governing bodies that set out principles and rights in the HSC setting. These are international in nature and are binding to countries. For example UNICEF is the worldwide body that governs conventions on the rights of a child. (Ref Unicef.org.uk) Charters These are documents defining the formal organisation of a formal body, for example The United Nations has a charter. (Ref Dictionary.com) Codes of Practice A written set of rules...
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...The Children’s Act – How does it promote anti discriminatory practice? The Act, which brings together all existing child protection legislation and extends protection from unfair treatment, explicitly excludes children and young people from legal protection from unfair discrimination. The Children Act 1989 recognised that the welfare of the child is paramount and set out an overarching system for safeguarding children and the roles different agencies play. It introduced the concept of parental responsibility rather than parental rights. A key principle is that Local Authorities have a duty to provide services for children and their families and all children and young people should have access to the same range of services. In 2003, the Government published a green paper called Every Child Matters. This was published alongside the formal response to the report into the death of Victoria Climbié. There was a wide consultation with people working in children's services, and with parents, children and young people. Following the consultation, the Government published Every Child Matters: the Next Steps, and passed the Children Act 2004, providing the legislative spine for developing more effective and accessible services focused around the needs of children, young people and families under the five Every Child Matters outcomes • Be healthy • Stay safe • Enjoy and achieve • Make a positive contribution • Achieve economic well-being The stay safe point underneath the...
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...how anti-discriminatory practice is promoted in health and social care settings It is important for workers who work for a health and social sector to promote equality, value diversity and respect the rights of service users. There are various ways of how they can challenge discriminatory issues and practices in health and social care. One of the ways in which care worker can promote equality, value diversity and respect the rights of service users is to always put the patient/service user at the heart of the service provision. This means that the patients' individual needs will be met and achieved for example; a personal eating plan to a specific individual. Putting the service user at the centre of the provision generally makes a happier and healthier patient in all areas. Care workers can help achieve this by: • Understanding what it is like to use those services • Involving those who use the services in all aspects of their care and development at all levels • Providing people with the information they need to make informed choices about their own care and making decisions about the way services are run. • Asking service what they would like and prefer instead of making decisions for them This also means that by providing them with support consistent of their beliefs, culture and preferences, service providers will not treat service users less fairly because they have different views and preferences to themselves. Also, if service providers do not agree...
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...Ways to overcome difficulties that may arise when implementing anti-discriminatory practice In health and social care it is likely that you are going to come across other workers and professionals that are showing discrimination to certain service users. This can make service users feel unworthy and can really lower their confidence and self-esteem. As a professional, if you see this happening, it is your duty to challenge the worker. This can be done in a number of ways. Firstly, you can directly challenge colleagues or other professionals who you believe are showing discriminatory practice. This can sometimes be difficult as it can cause conflict. It is important that you remain calm and simply say to your colleague that you believe what they did was wrong. They might agree with you and apologize to the service user. This means that this difficulty has been overcome, however on the hand; the colleague might become aggressive and demand that they were not being discriminative. If this happens, you should tell them your side and express your ways of which they can do it better. Staff development and training The problems that can be encountered within staff training and development is that Betty may want the training to take place on a Saturday but the carers who have the day off on Saturdays may not want to go because it may be the only day off they have in a week. Betty could then rearrange the day and have staff training during the week but the downside of that is...
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...The Competition Act 89 of 1998 (“the Act”) was used as reference Caption: Momentum Group Limited v African Life Health (Pty) Ltd (CAC) 58/CAC/Dec05 Heard in the Competition Appeal Court Decided 14 February 2006. Judgment written by Malan AJA. Davis JP and Mailula AJA concurring. Facts: This case dealt with the review and appeal of the decision of the Competition Tribunal. The applicants in the case are Momentum Group Limited (“MGL”) and two non-executive directors, L. Dippenaar and J Burger, who are the CEO and CFO of First Rand Limited (“FRL”), respectively. The Chairperson of the Competition Tribunal, the Acting Commissioner of the Competition Commission and African Life Health (Pty) Ltd (“ALH”) were respondents. The case concerned a large merger between MGL and ALH, MGL being the acquiring firm and ALH the target firm. The Competition Tribunal (“the Tribunal”) raised concern about the dual directorship held at operating and holding company level between the acquiring firm, MGL, and its parent firm, FRL, and one of FRL’s subsidiary’s, Discovery Holdings. FRL holds 65.6% shares in Discovery and wholly owns MGL. MGL and ALH operate in the medical scheme administration sector. The Competition Commission recommended that the merger be approved unconditionally after which it was referred to the Tribunal in terms of s 14A of the Act for approval. The Tribunal imposed a condition on the merger that prohibited cross directorship between Discovery and MGL. The Tribunal...
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...WEEK 3 Research Paper The United States has several laws that are intended to further fair, balanced, and competitive business practices. Do you think that such laws are effective? Competition Law I do believe that the competition law is effective because it helps businesses because it can protect the company’s position in the marketplace due to anticompetitive mergers and business practices. This enables markets to work more for the interest of the consumer and in return expand their profits. Businesses that practice unfairly, like offering discounts at a predatory level, abusing a position, unfair trading conditions or involving themselves in an anti-competitive behavior will face a fine based on their annual turnover. What they are doing is exposing themselves to damaging actions. In an open market you have aggressive competition by both the individuals and the businesses. The benefits of lower prices, high quality and greater innovation. So you need to be able to stay up to date with the laws policies. Some of the benefits of the competition law are for starters enables you to identify and new changes and opportunities and you business. Also helps you in return to make sure that you are complying with the latest rules. Some other benefits are trademark policies. One could be looking at infringement by unfair use of the rights the trademark is attached to. Trade defamation is another example as to how this law protects a business. This charge can either be civil or...
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...mICROECONOMICSMBM1010 Economics for Managers Coursework Submission Deadline: 3 p.m., Wednesday 7th December 2010 Name | email | Phone | Akhil | aas12@aber.ac.uk | 07424637952 | Subin | sub19@aber.ac.uk | 07438887215 | Tia | alp29@ aber.ac.uk | 07966523032 | Nagesh | nam15@aber.ac.uk | 07466838654 | Gavin | gaa@ aber.ac.uk | 07814767239 | | Date | Time | Venue | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The coursework is a teamwork project, each team submitting a combined report. An important part of the exercise is, in meeting as a team, to choose an industry or market for the topic (see below); to decide on and allocate the research work needed; and to organize the drafting of individual sections of the report, and their integration into a cohesive final product. Your report should include an executive summary, introduction and background information in addition to your analysis and conclusions. All references and data sources should be clearly cited within the text. Also, as an Appendix to the report, you should include a contract, to which each member of the group has agreed, detailing the allocation of work. Each member of the group should also separately...
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...certain manufacturers and thereby impairing competition that otherwise would take place. Defenders of slotting allowances have asserted that, among other things, they cover the cost of introducing new products to the marketplace and thereby tend to foster entry and innovation”. (ftc.gov 2001) While the Department of Justice concludes that the practice of slotting allowance is not an antitrust issue there is a possibility that there may be issues in the future with anticompetitive exclusion. Slotting allowance is a practice used by manufacturers and retailer to stock certain products on the shelves. It was most prevalent in supermarkets but spread to other store i.e. electronic stores and computer stores. For example, Microsoft pays a fee to have an end cap (spot at the end of an aisle) to display their product only. Some feel that it is an exclusivity practice that leaves out smaller businesses that cannot compete with the fees required by retailers. The process was for manufactures to introduce new product to customers. But it is now a wide spread practice to charge a fee to keep their mature (older) products on the shelf. The practice allows for retailers to build their market power. Pros and cons of slotting allowances: 1) Pros a) It helps to improve distribution efficiency b) Signals the quality of new product c) Retailers are able to screen the product for their stock d) Better use of limited space e) Increase the number of new...
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...market power has the ability to individually affect either the total quantity or the prevailing price in the market. Price makers face a downward-sloping demand curve, such that price increases lead to a lower quantity demanded. The decrease in supply as a result of the exercise of market power creates an economic deadweight loss which is often viewed as socially undesirable. As a result, many countries have anti-trust or other legislation intended to limit the ability of firms to accrue market power. Such legislation often regulates mergers and sometimes introduces a judicial power to compel divestiture. A firm usually has market power by virtue of controlling a large portion of the market. In extreme cases—monopoly and monopsony—the firm controls the entire market. However, market size alone is not the only indicator of market power. Highly concentrated markets may be contestable if there are no barriers to entry or exit, limiting the incumbent firm's ability to raise its price above competitive levels. Market power gives firms the ability to engage in unilateral anti-competitive behavior.[1] Some of the behaviours that firms with market power are accused of engaging in include predatory pricing, product...
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...monopoly if it is the sole seller of its product. – its product does not have close substitutes. The key difference: A monopoly firm has market power, the ability to influence the market price of the product it sells. A competitive firm has no market power. WHY MONOPOLIES ARISE The fundamental cause of monopoly is barriers to entry. Barriers to entry have three sources: – Ownership of a key resource. The government gives a single firm the exclusive right to produce some good. Costs of production make a single producer more efficient than a large number of producers. Monopoly Resources Although exclusive ownership of a key resource is a potential source of monopoly, in practice monopolies rarely arise for this reason. Government-Created Monopolies Governments may restrict entry by giving a single firm the exclusive right to sell a particular good in certain markets. Patent and copyright laws are two important examples of how government creates a monopoly to serve the public interest. Natural Monopolies • An industry is a natural monopoly when a single firm can supply a good or service to an entire market at a smaller cost than could two or more firms. A natural monopoly arises when there are economies of scale over the relevant range of output. Example: 1000 homes need electricity. ATC is lower if one firm services all 1000 homes than if two firms each service 500...
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...For this piece of coursework I will be describing how anti-discriminatory practice is promoted in health and social care settings. I will also be discussing the difficulties that may arise when implementing anti-discriminatory practice There are many ways in which to promote anti-discriminatory practice that are effective and have minimal chance of failure, the first way is staff training. This can be effective as it gives the workers an insight in how this practice is shown and ways to identify it, it informs them of how to prevent it and stop it from happening again. Training gives them a clear structure to follow to deal with this practice and how to avoid breaking the law. Training also puts the worker in the client’s shoes and shows them the effects of discrimination in hope to deter them from doing it again. Another way health organizations promote anti-discriminatory practice is by making sure they are welcoming for everyone; they do this by commutating to people in their preferred way whether it be Arabic to sign language. If they are unable to provide this service they should find someone who can, i.e. a translator. They should also take in to consideration the different beliefs and values the service users may have, this would be beneficial as it makes the user feel valued and respected, and they are made to feel s if they are at the heart of service. For example a client who is Muslim, letting them practice their religion as it is a religious requirement to pray...
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...HOLTE VISUAL and PERFORMING ARTS COLLEGE Centre 20131 BTEC -- BTEC Level 3 National: Health & Social Care | | | |Unit 2: |Equality, Diversity and Rights in Health and Social Care | | | | |Learner Name: | | |Issue Date: |Completion Date: | |6TH September 2012 |18TH October 2012 | |Checklist: | |Task: | |Task 1: P1 | |Task 2: P2 | |Task 3: P3 ...
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...Assignment: Learner information OCR Level 3 Health and Social Care Unit 2: Equality, Diversity and Rights in Health and Social Care Assessor: Important Dates | |Assessment Criteria |Issue Date |Formative Assessment |Summative Assessment | |Task 1 |P1, M1 and D1 | | | | |Task 2 |P2 and P3 | | | | |Task 3 |P4, M2, D2 | | | | |Task 4 |P5 and M3 | | | | CANDIDATE NAME: General Information for Learners Q Do I have to pass this assignment? A Yes. You must pass this assignment to achieve the full qualification. Q What help will I get? A Your tutor will help you when completing the OCR assignment and will make sure that you know what resources/facilities you need and are allowed to use. Q What if I don’t understand something? A It is your responsibility to read the assignment carefully and make sure you understand what you...
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