Residents rights.

This Legal policy was made in 1995 and was updated in 2005. This aim of this act is to end the discrimination, it gives rights to people with disabilities. This act gives rights to disabled people in many areas such as employment, education, access to merchandise and many more.
The legislation requires public representatives to promote equality of opportunity for people with disabilities. It also allows the government to set minimum standards so that people with disabilities can use public transport easily.

The Residents rights define discrimination in a number of ways and outlines four specific types of discrimination: direct discrimination, failure to make reasonable adjustments, disability-related discrimination and victimisation.

The Residents rights prevents anyone from the risk of harm or discrimination over them being disabled. For example, if there is a disabled elderly person in the care home then they would need to be given special treatment and should be tended to more than some of the other residents. The care home that they are staying in their staff should be checked on regularly because the staff could be violently assaulting residents and not be caught so regular checks should be done to prevent this.

The Residents rights stops anyone from being mistreated or thought of as being different or lower in status etc. so they should be thought of as being able to things for themselves but only to an extent. For example, if someone receives domiciliary care and the nurse is changing the child (between age 10-15) and the child is feeling like he is being treated like a baby and is being made to feel like he is not able to do anything for himself.

The Residents rights lets disabled people be their own individual and be able to make their own decisions, it also stops people from the staff etc. from obtaining information or discussing someone’s information. For example, if you are a resident at an elderly care home then you should be allowed to be your own individual and have your own rights.

Residents rights act lets people have their own rights and to have basic living situations such as their own rooms, their right to privacy and to have your own personal security. For example, in a residential care home people should be able to have their own rooms, be able to have a peace of mind and be able to have a sense of privacy.

The Residents rights act lets you be able to eat meals, to bathe etc. this lets them have basic rights. For example, if you are receiving domiciliary care then you should have basic rights and be able to be your own individual.

The Residents rights enable you to be able to maintain and act on your religion, traditions and religions etc. also it enables you to have your spiritual and emotional need respected and valued. They should also be helped and be treated with dignity and be helped to meet this target.

The residents have a right to be able to be kept informed about what is happening to them such as they could be putting chemicals in their body which could be harmful this could be out of anger etc. the residents deserved to be treated fairly and should make the residents understand what they are being treated with and why.

Part 2
Advocacy is for people who are not confident or are vulnerable and cannot speak for themselves, a trained person would speak on behalf of the person. To have an advocate is a person’s own right to which they are entitled to. Advocacy is to have a person speak for you and this can be a professional worker or a friend or even a relative. For example, if you are receiving domiciliary care and you speak a different language to the nurse then you would need an advocate to speak for you and translate etc. or another example would be if you were in court and you are unable to speak in the language that they speak in then you would need an advocate to translate and help you.

Work practices are when H & S care settings have to follow policies and procedures so they can maintain their quality of service and also so the staff is aware of any legalisations and rules etc. so they do not break any laws or acts. The staff has to follow the policies and procedures otherwise it can either be a breach of the contract or can be considered misleading and unprofessional. For example, if you are in an elderly care home then the charters and code of practice should be in clear view so they can be viewed from time to time so that the staff and residents know their rights and the staff knows how they should act and do it professionally.

Staff development and training is made so the staff keeps updated and is able to follow and act on any new changes within the workplace. Additionally, updates of technology and procedures of each process are constantly changing nowadays. For example, if you are a nurse providing domiciliary care then you will need to be checking for updates and recent developments with any legislations or acts etc. with your company because if you do not do this then this can cause a violation of specific laws or regulations.

Confidentiality is something which should be an attribute in every H & S care environment because it is a violation of the Data protection data, confidentiality is a must as it is vital that anyone’s personal information is not leaked or given to anyone to use for illegal or for self-purposes. Confidentiality, is something which should be promoted in H & S care settings because letting information out is not only illegal but doing so means that you generally have bad intentions and by doing so will mean that someone’s dignity will be in danger or their personal information could be exploited and they could be receiving threats etc. for example, if you are using a dental surgery and one of the nurses takes down your personal details and information then they could then leak this information by accident by maybe misplacing it in the office or gives it to an assistant then they could expose this information and misuse it.

Human rights is something should everyone have and should be put in place and people should act on these rights because doing otherwise is inappropriate and disrespectful, this also shows that you have a complete disregard for human rights and your own rights. If anyone within a H & S care environment does violates another person’s human rights then you can report the incident and the situation would be assessed and then action would be taken. For example, if a nurse in an elderly care home slaps a resident out of anger then this matter would be reported and then further action would be taken as she is violating the resident’s human rights.

Anti-harassment is when you put in rules/policies and procedures and promote anti-harassment in the workplace, every organisation should have this because it is their right to be respected and not be harassed. People can be harassed based on various reasons such as sexual preferences, race, ethnicity, gender and beliefs, sexual orientation, marital status etc. for example, if you are working in hospital and you are a female nurse and you are with a patient and he tries sexually harassing you then you would need to report this and inform them of the rules and policies, additionally if you are being sexually harassed then you could inform a higher authority to deal with this matter if you wish to take the matter further.