Social Work Case
What would you do?
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Unit 4: Personal and Professional
Development in Health and Social
Care
Understand how personal values and
principles influence individual
contributions to work in health and
social care settings
Lesson Objectives
• Recognise four health and social care
values
• Analyse the Care Value Base in relation to
working within the sector
• Introduce new developments in H&SC
Job Specifications
• Look through your Job Specifications and
identify any values
• We are going to share these
Care Value Base
What did you find out?
Care Value Base
The principles of care are:
• Promoting effective communication and relationships
• Promoting anti-discriminatory practice (including policies
and codes of practice)
• Maintaining confidentiality of information
• Promoting and supporting individuals’ rights to dignity,
independence, empowerment, choice and safety.
• Acknowledging individuals’ personal beliefs and identity
and respecting diversity
• Protecting individuals from abuse
• Providing individualised care
Care Value Base
Take one value each and describe
how you carry this out within your
role
Case Studies
• Read through the case studies in your pairs
• Can you identify any values within the case?
• If the member of staff were following the CVB
what would have been different
New Developments with
Health and Social Care
Legislations and policies
For next week
Research the following ready to share next week
• Equality Act
• Human Rights
• Every Child Matters
• Care Quality Commission
• National Care Standards
• Safeguarding
• Mental Health Act
• Ofsted
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Cost of elderly Care
Equality Act
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What legislations has this Act replaced?
What are some of the key changes?
Summarise the Act in 100 words
How does this impact on the care being
provided?
• How does this effect the way companies
work?
Equality Act
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What legislations has this Act replaced?
What are some of the key changes?
Summarise the Act in 100 words
How does this impact on the way staff are
treated by employers?
• How does this effect the way companies
work?
Human Rights
• Summarise the Act in 100 words
• What are some of the key factors?
• How does this impact on the way staff are
treated by employers?
• How does this effect the way care should be
provided?
Convention on the Rights of the
Child
• Summarise what this is in 100 words
• What are some of the key factors?
• How does this impact on the way children are
educated within the UK?
• How does this effect the way care should be
provided?
Mental Health Act
• Summarise the Act in 100 words
• What are some of the key factors?
• How does this impact on the way staff are
treated by employers?
• How does this effect the way care should be
provided?
Every Child Matters
• Summarise the paper in 100 words
• What are some of the key factors?
• How does this impact on the way staff are
treated by employers?
• How does this effect the way care should be
provided?
National Care Standards
• What are some of the key factors?
• How does this impact on the way staff carry
out their jobs?
• How does this effect the way care should be
provided?
• What impact will this have on care homes?
Care Quality Commission
• Summarise what they do in 100 words
• What are some of their key roles?
• How does this impact on the way staff are
expected to behave within the role?
• How does this effect the way care should be
provided?
Ofsted
• Summarise what they do in 100 words
• What are some of their key roles?
• How does this impact on the way staff are
expected to behave within the role?
• How does this effect the way care should be
provided?
Safeguarding
• What are some of the key factors?
• How does this impact on the way staff carry
out their jobs?
• How does this effect the way care should be
provided?
• What impact will this have on confidentiality?
Cost of caring for older people
• Who currently pays for care for over 65s?
• Is this a fair system?
• What impact could this be having on selfesteem?