Unit 22 Level 3 Health and Social Care

1.identify legislation and policies that are designed to promote the human rights, inclusion, equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities

2 staff in bedroom 1 transferring an individual to wheelchair; staff changing an individual in bedroom 2 (privacy observed); staff organizing/tidying bedroom 10; staff organizing/tidying bedroom 6; staff bathing an individual in bathroom 2; staff grooming in bathroom 2; staff in unit 1’s tech station reviewing/writing the daily assignment sheet; staff escorting individual to dining room; and EDA was in the dining room feeding.

In this report for Serious Topics Radio Station i will discuss the reasons why a child gets taken away from their parents/ guardian and need to be looked after. I will also talk about the short and long-term solutions. Children are generally best cared for within their own families. However, there are times when children aren't able to live with their families. If a child isn’t able to live with their parents, they may be taken to care.

Reporting of Injuries,Diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations of 1995 requires the reporting of work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences. The Act applies to all work related activities, but not to all work related incidents. The objective of the regulations is to enable the enforcing authorities to identify where and how risks arise and to investigate serious accidents so as to prevent them from occurring in the future and thus providing a safer work environment. The enforcing authorities can then help and advise you on preventive action to reduce injury, ill health and accidental loss,the main points of our own policy that relate to this are:

Identify four legislation and policies that are designed to promote the human rights, inclusion, equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities

The social model of disability looks at ways to address issues to enable people to achieve their potential, by looking at ways to adapt the environment so the child can feel included this is very important. The social model has been constructed by disabled people and by listening to what disabled people want and to remove any

How does this social construction of disabilities impact institutional policies, and societal and individual behaviors regarding disabilities? In other words, how have people with disabilities been marginalized in the past and present at those three levels? Please be specific and provide examples to support your answers.

P1) Explain potential hazards and the harm that may arise from each in a health or social setting

There are many weaknesses of the medical model. One of the weaknesses that I am going to talk about is that in some cases people see the medical model as an insult due to the fact that the model tries to ‘fix’ people with a disability instead of making adjustments and adaptions to environments, activities etc… for them. Due to the fact that the medical model is trying to ‘fix’ tem, may seem to people that the ones with the disability cannot have a normal, healthy life like other people do who do not suffer with a disability. People may also feel like the medical model is saying that is the individual’s fault that they have a

“The social model of disability sees the issue of "disability" as a socially created problem and a matter of the full integration of individuals into society. In this model, disability is not the problem of the individual, but rather a complex collection of conditions, many of which are created by the social environment. Hence, the management of the problem requires social action and is the collective responsibility of society at large to make the environmental modifications necessary for the full

For example in the article, “Rethinking Disability and What To Do About It: Disability Studies and Its Implications for Occupational Therapy” by Gark Kielhofner, discusses rehabilitation medicine and the natural assumption of disability as ‘out of the norm’. While there is a fine line between wanting to better life activities and wanting to eliminate an impairment that might not be realistically possible. It is important that doctors do not demonstrate the medical model of looking at a disability as completely adverse side effects to a larger problem but rather as a culture as well. As someone with an SCI, I would want to be aware if realistically there could be improvements. Because if not I would not want to waste time doing the activities. I would also want to be aware of new technologies that may help in my mobility and daily life

The disability model is often referred to as the social model, which is a

The medical model thinks of the disabled person’s impairment as the main problem, therefore the main focus is to fix the problem of the individual. For instance ‘a disabled person may use the wheelchair – this is not a problem, the problem is if there’s no access to a ramp’. The medical model judges our quality of life as it assumes that people that has an impairment life isn’t worth living, therefore they will work hard to refer the individual to a right specialist to treat them. As they can find a specialist this puts faith in doctors. This makes them depend on health professional and makes them less dependent.

The social model of disability says that disability is caused by the way society acts and is organised, rather than by a person’s impairment or difference. They believe society should change to meet the needs of the child/young person. It looks at ways of removing barriers that restrict life choices for disabled people. When barriers are removed, disabled people can be independent and equal in society, with choice and control over their own lives. An impairment is defined as

Under the Medical Model, disabled people are defined by their illness or medical condition. The Medical Model regards disability as an individual problem.  It promotes the view of a disabled person as dependent and needing to be cured or cared for, and justifies the way in which disabled people have been systematically excluded from society.  The disabled person is the problem, not society.  Control resides firmly with professionals; choices for the individual are limited to the options provided and approved by the 'helping' expert.