Principle for Implementing Duty of Care in Health, Social or Children and Young People's Setting
Assignment Overview
Introduction
This assignment is intended to provide evidence of a candidate’s knowledge and understanding of the principles for duty of care in health, social care or children and young people’s settings. By completing all tasks within the assignment, the candidate will provide evidence that meets the Learning Outcomes and assessment criteria for Unit 054, Principles for Implementing Duty of Care in Health, Social Care or Children and Young People’s Settings.
Tasks
There are three tasks to this assignment.
A Short answer questions
B Complete table
C Short answer questions
Assignment coverage
Task | Task name | Learning outcomes covered | A | A Short answer questions | 1. Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice | B | B Complete table | 2. Know how to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual and the duty of care | C | C Short answer questions | 3. Know how to respond to complaints |
Task A – Short Answer Questions
Candidates will explain the following:
* What duty of care means in children and young people settings (Ref. 1.1) Duty of care means it is your duty to care for the children, to protect them from any danger and harm. The younger the children, the more you have to watch over them as they are more vulnerable as they are more dependable on you whereas, the older ones are not so vulnerable but still need to be watched over until they have become adults. |
* How this contributes to the safeguarding or protection of individuals (Ref. 1.2) With safeguarding you need to carry out risk assessments making sure there are no potential hazard left lying around to endanger the children or may cause any accidents or spreading of viruses. Depending on the age and development of each child, boundaries should be set that could upset other children and if broken they will know the consequences of their action. Observations and assessments should be carried
Introduction
This assignment is intended to provide evidence of a candidate’s knowledge and understanding of the principles for duty of care in health, social care or children and young people’s settings. By completing all tasks within the assignment, the candidate will provide evidence that meets the Learning Outcomes and assessment criteria for Unit 054, Principles for Implementing Duty of Care in Health, Social Care or Children and Young People’s Settings.
Tasks
There are three tasks to this assignment.
A Short answer questions
B Complete table
C Short answer questions
Assignment coverage
Task | Task name | Learning outcomes covered | A | A Short answer questions | 1. Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice | B | B Complete table | 2. Know how to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual and the duty of care | C | C Short answer questions | 3. Know how to respond to complaints |
Task A – Short Answer Questions
Candidates will explain the following:
* What duty of care means in children and young people settings (Ref. 1.1) Duty of care means it is your duty to care for the children, to protect them from any danger and harm. The younger the children, the more you have to watch over them as they are more vulnerable as they are more dependable on you whereas, the older ones are not so vulnerable but still need to be watched over until they have become adults. |
* How this contributes to the safeguarding or protection of individuals (Ref. 1.2) With safeguarding you need to carry out risk assessments making sure there are no potential hazard left lying around to endanger the children or may cause any accidents or spreading of viruses. Depending on the age and development of each child, boundaries should be set that could upset other children and if broken they will know the consequences of their action. Observations and assessments should be carried