Dear Anna :-) I understand that you want to work in the Care profession. As I have worked in Care for a couple of years now‚ I thought I’d let you know a few things to help you out. There are different terms used in care which would be handy for you to know‚ for example “duty of care”. Duty of care means you have a legal obligation to always act in the best interest of individuals and others. Not to act or fail to act in a way that results in harm. Act within your competence & not take on anything
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Unit 304 Outcome 1 1. Duty of Care is defined simply as a legal obligation to: •always act in the best interest of individuals and others •not act or fail to act in a way that results in harm •act within your competence and not take on anything you do not believe you can safely do. As a care worker you owe a duty of care to the people you support‚ your colleagues‚ your employer‚ yourself and the public interest. Everyone has a duty of care – it is not something that you can opt out of. When
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Parens patriae is a Latin word which implies the legal duty of parents especially fathers to protect their children. It also suggests that the government has the legal duty to protect its citizens. The stand of this principle is that there exists a superior authority that is titled to care and protect for the inferior persons in the society. A juvenile court system is the judicial system that is tasked with the duty of handling cases relating to youths and or rather minors in the society. The orientation
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Protecting Foetal Rights Angela Kim LWSO 335 Linda McKay-Panos Spring 2006 I. Introduction "Prenatal Substance Abuse and Judicial Intervention" by Richard D. Bell. Many dissenting views on judicial intervention in pregnancy and birth exist. In his article‚ Bell demonstrates his disagreement with the decision put forward by Shulman J. in the Winnipeg Child and Family Services case against G. (D. F.) to intervene and impose treatment on a pregnant‚ substance abusing woman. For Bell
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punishments. However‚ there have been many problems with this system. In 1967‚ there were a few disagreements that led to changes that made juvenile courts more like criminal courts which happened in the 1980’s. Parens patriae are also very important to the juvenile court system. Parens patriae are people of the government‚ or authority‚ who become the legal guardian of the troubled child. Most of the children who are sent to juvenile court usually have influences from their parents. For example‚ some
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For this particular assignment‚ the history of juvenile justice in America will be discussed and how parens patriae‚ the child saver movement‚ and the JJDPA were all instrumental in shaping it. Juvenile justice was formed in response to juvenile delinquency. Juveniles were treated the same as adults before the juvenile justice system existed. According to the Criminal Justice Reference Service (1999) during the 18th century‚ children as young as seven could be sentenced to prison or death for crimes
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Parens patriae is the power of the state in which the juveniles resides to act as a guardian for juveniles that are unable to care for themselves. In order for the state to take power over a juvenile they must either be disabled or unable to take care of themselves. Under the parens patriae doctrine‚ a judge may change child support arraignments‚ custody of a minor‚ or any other area that that affects a child’s wellbeing‚ without the juveniles parental consent. Safeguards such as parens patriae
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and runaway children in the United States were treated in the same way as adult criminal offenders” (Seigel & Welsh‚ 2011). Three key things that helped to develop a separate system for juveniles were the child-saving movement‚ the concept of parens patria and the creation of institutions created specifically for the care of juveniles. The ‘child-savers’ movement began in New York in the early 1800’s. These early groups were concerned mainly with the moral education of children. They felt
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Juvenile justice system Checkpoint/Juvenile Court Process The Juvenile Court system is managed under the theory of rehabilitation rather than punishment in which also acts as parens patriae. Parens patriae is when a parent is reluctant or incapable to control a child‚ the state has the power to step in and act in the child’s and society’s best interest (Meyer & Grant‚ 2003). All juvenile courts have a judge of some type and have limited jurisdictions in which the judge is only allowed to hear
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The term parens patriae means ______________. a. the bad parent b. the proper parent c. the state as parent d. the child’s parent e. the parent’s right 4. A legal doctrine in which the state plays the role of the parent is called ____________. a. stare decisis b. parens patriae c. mens rea d. actus reus e. the law of parent rights 5. The authority granted by law to hear a case is called __________. a. jurisdiction b. actus reus c. states rights d. venue e. parens patriae 6. Any
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