...Unit 2 Assignment 2 P4 There are many pieces of legislation that are put in place to protect and safeguard vulnerable people; like Mrs Naidoo. I am going describe five pieces of legislation and regulations, and explain how they safeguard vulnerable adults. The Care Standard Act 2002 The Care Standard Act is in place for anyone who receives care. These are the minimum standards by which every care provider must adhere to and are inspected on a regular basis. Its policies include giving patients the right to a choice of home, everyday living, activities, protection and administration of medicine. This legislation helps to direct care organisations regarding the protection of vulnerable adults. It does this by giving vulnerable individuals the right to a social life and to make sure all their needs are met, which will really help with their health and well being. For example this regulation could really help someone like Mrs Naidoo, who is not joining in social activities. She is being left out of social activities, which she has a right to and this means she is not getting any social life. Therefore, this piece of legislation really would help her. The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 The Disability Discrimination Act aims to end the discrimination that faces many people with disabilities. It gives people with disabilities rights in the areas of: • employment • education • access to goods, facilities and services, including larger private clubs...
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...legislation and regulations which govern safeguarding adults at work Legislation | Main Points | Application | Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006Protection of Vulnerable Groups Act 2007 Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) 2010 | * Set for individuals who work with children and vulnerable adults to be registered * The independent safeguarding authority to be able to decide who should be barred from working with people that are vulnerable | * Applies to employed individuals and volunteers * They are separate, but like barred lists for those working with children and adults * Checks must take place before an individual can work with vulnerable people | The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 | * Allows for convictions to become 'spent' after a certain period of time of rehabilitation or non-offending | * All healthcare employment is usually exempt from this act and requires full disclosure of prior convictions. | The Police Act 1997 | * CRB checks (now known as a DBS) have to be done under this act, and are the norm in health and social care settings. | * CRB checks work alongside the ISA to ensure that more detailed checks are carried out | The Sexual Offences Act 2003 | * This act was created for sex offenders registered for identification and tracking purposes | * Enables sex offenders to be monitored and vulnerable adults to be protected | Care Standards Act 2000 | * This was set for national...
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...rights of children and the expenses now compared to the past. Jane Pilcher (1995) said that the most important feature of the modern idea of childhood is separateness, this is emphasised in many ways e.g. through laws saying what children can or can’t do, another example would be through the way they are dressed, toys, food, books leisure activities etc. related to this is the idea of childhood as the ‘golden age’ of happiness and innocence, innocence could be referred to as being vulnerable and so must be protected from all the dangers from the adult world. So with this idea of separation and vulnerability many people would say that the modern family is child centred as extra precautions will be taken to make sure that the ‘vulnerable’ children are safe and sound, furthermore as the law has drawn a clear line of what children are allowed to do what they are required to do and what they are prohibited to do- this has had an impact on how the modern family is becoming more child centred than in the past as children are being portrayed as vulnerable and in need of protection, however many people would disagree and say that even though there is separation between children and adults it doesn’t mean that the modern family has become child centred, it just means there are more precautions which are being taken to ensure safety for children. A historian Philippe Aries (1960) argued that in the Middle Ages (10th to 13th century) childhood didn’t exist, children were not seen as having...
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...What Is A Family? Nichole Ziegler University of Phoenix Health Assessment & Promotion of Vulnerable Population NUR/440 Dr. Carrillio October 29, 2011 What Is A Family? According to de Chesney (2008), "the notion of a vulnerable population is a public health concept that refers to vulnerability by virtue of status; that is, some groups are at risk at any given point in time relative to other individuals or groups." This could mean status of income, to health status, to relationship status and to cultural status. A diverse population is a population that does not necessarily mean you are vulnerable it could just mean that you are not the highest of population regarding the factors that make you unique. " Because of lack of legal recognition for their unions, gay and lesbian parents can face heavier tax burdens, higher costs for health insurance, and diminished financial protections in the event of death or disability "(Crary, 2011). Same-sex marriages who are only recognized in 6 states, do not get the status of being married, which means that when same-sex marriages are not classified as a "family" which means they cannot receive assistance through government agencies like healthy start, WIC, or any other service that Job and Family Services can offer heterosexual couples. " Broadening the definition of "family" to allow LGBT families to benefit fully from government safety-net programs, and revise the tax code to provide equitable treatment for these families...
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...What is safeguarding? Safeguarding is protecting vulnerable adults or children from abuse or neglect. It means making sure people are supported to get good access to health care and stay well. It is wrong if vulnerable people are not treated by professionals with the same respect as other patients. It is making sure that people are supported to have full and happy lives. It is making sure that people get safe and empowering care. Safeguarding should make sure that people get the support they need to make the most of their lives and get their full equal rights. Employers must still make sure they do not employ bad staff or volunteers to care for vulnerable adults and children. They should make sure that staff and volunteers have a Police Check before they are left to work alone with vulnerable adults and children. If an organisation has sacked or planned to sack a member of staff or volunteer who has left because they have harmed a child or vulnerable adult, they must tell the Independent Safeguarding Authority. A person who is or may be unable to take care of him or herself. A person who is unable to protect him or herself against serious harm or being taken advantage of. All organizations that work with or come into contact with children should have safeguarding policies and procedures to ensure that every child, regardless of their age, gender, religion or ethnicity, can be protected from harm. Setting up and following good safeguarding policies and procedures means...
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...procedures which reduce the risk of abuse Hand In Deadline: 19th November 2014 Task 1: You must write a report that covers: * Legislation * Recruitment practices * Sector Guidance * Strategies and * Procedures that are used to safeguard vulnerable adults. In addition you must say how these can be used to help reduce 2 different types of abuse. This report will be looking at how legislation, policies and workplace procedures reduce the risk of abuse. Legislations are put in place to reduce the risk of abuse in certain environments and workplaces that are targeted by abusers. The definition for legislation is the act or process of making or enacting laws. In this report I will be covering the six legislations that are most known to us these are; The Sexual Offences act, The Care Standards Act, The Mental health Act, The Equality Act, The Human Rights and The Data Protection Act. The first one I will be covering is The Sexual Offences Act 2003. This Act lists the different types of sex offences. How sex offenders are monitored, how the police have to be informed if the sex offender has changed address or been away from home for more than seven days and it also covers sexual abuse of vulnerable people with mental disorder. This can help spot abuse within different environments, prevent abuse from occurring and stops sex offenders from abusing again within a matter of weeks. The second act I wanted and had to mention which I think is the most important...
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...of supportive relationships in reducing the risks of abuse and neglect, using examples In order for a vulnerable individual to feel confident and feel as though their needs are being met, a supportive relationship is essential. A supportive relationship is a relation based on empathy and encouragement and involves the care and support from those around them such as, friends, and family and care workers. Supportive relationships can affect an individual’s health and well-being in a positive way and by having the support of others around them can give the individual confidence and make the individual feel better about themselves. It also means that trust is built between the carer and the cared for, and when something goes wrong, the individual feels that they can go and report it someone who is close to them, who can then go on to resolve the situation. For a new care worker this could prove difficult for them to create any kind of relationship with a client or service user, but they would need to consider both the nature of themselves, and the individual they are supporting’s role. Being a vulnerable adult leads them to being susceptible to various forms of abuse and/or neglect, and because of the very nature of what is happening they may have no idea as to how to respond to the abuse – finding it far easier to just let it continue, than fight it off. The vulnerable individual needs to know there is somebody out there who is willing to support them, as not only does this...
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... love was only described through the intensity of the feeling. It does not explain fully what to experience inside ‘love’. Nevertheless, it all arrives in some point. Love is vulnerable, unconditional and a decision. Love means to embrace vulnerability. Vulnerability means capable of being hurt physically or emotionally. Love involves both but often times, it is the feelings that is involve. Usually, when a person loves someone, he or she tends to do everything for him or her. Even if it means getting hurt, they will still continue. Being vulnerable means accepting everything is going to happen, anything is going to happen. It sounds scary but people become this kind of people because of love without even them knowing. It won’t be a weakness because this will be their strength, they will gain courage. They will face obstacles even if it looks like they are not going to survive. It is what makes them strong. Vulnerability makes its beauty visible. It is like a balloon, it is fragile but it looks so much better if it is seen and not hidden and if it is felt and not absent. It exhibits its beauty in its own way. That’s what love becomes when it’s vulnerable. The beauty of the relationship becomes noticeable. Love means to give everything unconditionally. It means it sees no limitations in love. They always give what they have but never looked if they will receive the same amount of what they gave. They never expect but they hope that you will be able to feel their love. They...
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...P4- Outline key legislation and regulations, which govern safeguarding adult work. Key legislations and regulations which govern safeguarding adults workIn health and social care this means: | M2- Describe legislations and regulations in health and social care used to reduce the risk of two types of abuse. PHYSICAL ABUSE | M2- Describe legislations and regulations in health and social care used to reduce the risk of two types of abuse.SELF HARM | Safeguarding vulnerable groups Act 2006This legislation is to ensure that people who work with vulnerable people such as babies, children and elderly adults should be checked with the ISA to see who is not allowed to work with children this may be because they might have a criminal record in the past to do with abusing vulnerable people therefore they are barred from working with vulnerable people. | This ensures that staffs that have a previous conviction of harming others with convictions of such as GBH or ABH are reviewed before given a job. It prevents staffs that have harmed others before from harming more people at the residential care home. They may be banned from working with vulnerable people and unless checks are done the organisation will never know and someone could potentially be a victim of abuse. | | The rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974This legislation plays a role in health and social care because it takes into account the employees past criminal offences or to see if any offences have been seen as non-offending...
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...secure software life cycle process. Key Highlights of Term Paper * Software’s Vulnerability to Attack * The Challenge of Building Secure Software * Software Assurance * General Principles of Secure Software Development * What the Software Practitioner Needs to Know * Integrating Security into the Software Life Cycle ------------------------------------------------- Software’s Vulnerability to Attack What makes it so easy for attackers to target software is the virtually guaranteed presence of vulnerabilities, which can be exploited to violate one or more of the software’s security properties. According to CERT, most successful attacks result from targeting and exploiting known, non-patched software vulnerabilities and insecure software configurations, many of which are introduced during design and code. In their Report to the President titled Cyber Security: A Crisis of Prioritization, the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee summed up the problem of non-secure software as follows: Software development is not yet a science or a rigorous discipline, and the development process by and large is not controlled to minimize the vulnerabilities that attackers exploit. Today, as with cancer, vulnerable software can be invaded and modified to cause damage to previously healthy software, and infected software can replicate itself and be carried across networks to cause damage in other systems. Like cancer, these damaging processes may be invisible...
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...groups of people who appear to be more vulnerable to or at risk of abuse than others. They tend to be individuals with physical or learning difficulties or mental health problems. This can also include elder individuals who maybe suffering from dementia because they are in a confused state. Individuals in this group ten to be more accepting in what happens them, this could be because of their strong medication they may be taking. Individuals with a limited social networks and have low self-esteem as a result they would become dependent on their abusers or potential abusers being abused often see it as their fault and there’s nothing they can do about it, so they keep quiet and just put up with it. An example of an adult at risk of abuse id Sarah, she is 40 years old and has mild learning difficulties, she also lives alone but she has a career that comes to visit her at least 3 times a week. Her career often comes and calls her names and pushes her, Sarah hasn’t told anyone because she thinks it is her fault, because she is being annoying and this is why the career is being horrible to her. Contexts: People who are dependent on other for personal care sometimes live alone and depend on the career can make individuals very isolated and they find that their main contact with the outside world is through their career. Their career could be the person they see the most often in the day. This strong isolation and dependency can increase the vulnerable of the individual who may be confused...
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...These facilities are somewhat like overcrowded prison cells for the lack of a better term. Patients come in and out with little or no interaction from the staff. They are sometimes given drugs without any knowledge as to what the drug is for or proper drug dosage. Patients normally spent hours waiting to get medical attention due to the vast amount of people trying to access the services provided. There may be a visit with a psychiatrist, usually once during the person’s stay and may be a few group and individual therapy session before being discharged. The private mental health facilities are more structured to have adequate and quality time for patients and treat them professionally and provide them with coping skills before being discharged into the community. The public mental health facility however, provides a more basic care by bringing people in regardless of what their actual diagnosis is, and then send them out into the community without coping skills just to make room for more people. This leads to so many returning visits to the public mental health...
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...Philippine Institute for Development Studies Surian sa mga Pag-aaral Pangkaunlaran ng Pilipinas Toward Measuring Household Vulnerability to Income Poverty in the Philippines Jose Ramon G. Albert, Lilia V Elloso . and Andrei Philippe Ramos DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES NO. 2007-16 The PIDS Discussion Paper Series constitutes studies that are preliminary and subject to further revisions. They are being circulated in a limited number of copies only for purposes of soliciting comments and suggestions for further refinements. The studies under the Series are unedited and unreviewed. The views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute. Not for quotation without permission from the author(s) and the Institute. December 2007 For comments, suggestions or further inquiries please contact: The Research Information Staff, Philippine Institute for Development Studies 5th Floor, NEDA sa Makati Building, 106 Amorsolo Street, Legaspi Village, Makati City, Philippines Tel Nos: (63-2) 8942584 and 8935705; Fax No: (63-2) 8939589; E-mail: publications@pids.gov.ph Or visit our website at http://www.pids.gov.ph Toward Measuring Household Vulnerability to Income Poverty in the Philippines♦ Jose Ramon G. Albert,µ Lilia V. Elloso* and Andrei Philippe Ramos∂ Abstract: Concomitant to the analysis of poverty is the measurement of vulnerability. Estimates of household vulnerability to income poverty are developed using a modified...
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...stimulus such as jobs or health care cost increases. If adding these two factors, the statistical numbers can be staggering. Health Care trends The health care trends for the underinsured or uninsured suggest this vulnerable population will not seek preventative care due to the personal financial impact. This vulnerable group will seek treatment for the common cold, flu to chronic illness through emergency room departments and then wait for relapses before seeking additional treatment or follow up treatment. The health care trends that often plague the uninsured or underinsured population resulted from preventative health care measures. This could have been treated through preventative health care measures, but for uninsured populations, preventative measures are not affordable. Other health trends for this population include mental health and substance abuse, cardiac conditions, pneumonia and diabetes. In identifying health trends for the underinsured or uninsured all point back to preventative measures that could have saved both the consumer and medical facilities hundreds to thousands of dollars. Health Care Services Health care services are used due to the diagnosis of the medical condition. Statistically, underinsured or uninsured populations do not have the means to afford preventative health care which begins a trickle up affect from minor health or illness issue to chronic disease or...
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...Vulnerable Populations in Current Events Paper NUR/440 Version 4 Health Assessment and Promotion for Vulnerable Population University of Phoenix Vulnerable Populations in Current Events Paper Vulnerability is an important component that nurses need to be familiar with when they’re working with different types of clients from different cultures, values and beliefs. Our jobs as nurses are to be able to identify and enhance the strengths of the patients and community and to help them to choose the right intervention in order to keep a healthy life. Nurses must address issues of vulnerability, because those populations are the most likely to become sick all the time due to the different stressors in their life. Vulnerability can be minor or severe, and as nurses we need to identify and address those different stressors that can cause temporary or permanent damage to our patients. In this paper the author will talk about the article “Gang youth as a vulnerable population for nursing intervention,” which defines a vulnerable population, what barriers may prevent these groups from obtaining needed services, and what the author experiences with vulnerable groups in the author’s own life. This article refers to our youth gang members from different poor communities, especially Chicago and Los Angeles, where we see a big number of youth involved in gangs. Usually, before these youths join the gang, are already exposed to this type of environment, and most of them come from...
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