Health And Social Care Level 3 Unit 10 M1

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M1: describe how practitioners should apply values of care in a health and social care service.
Introduction
Maintaining confidentiality
Health and social care setting
Confidentiality is keeping a confidence between the client and the practitioner which is an important part of good health care service. However in some cases a practitioner/care worker has to discuss people’s cases with a manager and they must tell them about what the client has said. They may even need to reveal what they know about an individual in a court.
In health and social care there is no absolute confidentiality because a practitioner may need to share information about and individual/ client to another practitioner. Health records are confidential so they cannot
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Diversity means the fact that everyone is diverse. Diversity recognises and respects everyone’s differences and it welcomes and encourages the differences and variety that groups have to offer. There are different societies in health and social care so staff must value diversity and equality and they must not give favourable treatments to certain groups of people because they hold prejudices again other people. They must treat everyone in the same equal way. Care workers can actively promote equality and diversity in health and social care by treating everyone equally with the same …show more content…
All families have needs and values that arise from their social and economic, culture or religious backgrounds. Some children grow up in diverse family structures which include two parents and one parent family and children even grow up in an extended family with grandparents, aunts, uncles and even cousins. Some children have needs that arise from disability or impairment or may have parents affected by disability or impairment. Some children come from families who are affected by social exclusion or severe hardship sometimes they may have to face discrimination and prejudice because of their ethnicity, religious cultural background, the languages they speak, their gender or their disability or impairment. These factors can affect the well being of a child and can impact their learning or entertainment. To show that care workers value diversity it can be shown in a number of ways they can provide a secure and accessible environment and value any contributions made, they can value the contribution of all families, they could improve their knowledge and understanding and they can make good relations with the children in order to value them.
Working in partnership with parents and families.
Early years setting
Parents and families matter a lot and play a huge role in early years because mums and dads are the first most important influence in a child’s development and future outcomes.

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