Question

For this task you must research each of the following topics, and complete a basic report (maximum 500 words) on your findings. The research topics are:

• Legal and ethical considerations for providing home and community services, including:

Code of practice

Basic home fire safety and associate state/territory smoke alarm legislation

• Dignity of risk
• Duty of care
• Privacy, confidentiality and disclosure
• Practice standards
• Work role boundaries- responsibilities and limitations
• Work health and safety

• Relevant organization policies and procedures and how to access them, including risk management practices when the work environment is a person’s home
• Personal and property security procedures, including security protocols and equipment
• Relevant policy and programs, including:

• Home and community, care (HACC)
• Department of veterans’ affairs (DVA)
• Government community care directions

• Implications for work in the sector including:

• Person-centred practice
• Consumer-directed care
• Empowerment and disempowerment

• Indicators of abuse and/or neglect, including:

• Physical
• Sexual
• Psychological
• Emotional
• Financial

(Please answer according to the Certificate 3 Individual Support)

Answer 1

Legal standards are the standard that are set by the fourth in governmental law. Ethical standards are based on the human principles of right and wrong. The difference is that legal standards are based on written law and the ethical stadards are based on human rights and wrongs.

Q.1 Code of ethic is a guide of principle to design to help professional conduct business honesty and with integrity. A code of ethics also refer to as an ethical code may encompass area such as a business ethics , a code of professional practice and a employee code of conduct

Some of the legal and ethical consideration arise in community area are practice with your area of competence avoid dishonesty and fraud not allowing your private life to conduct your professional role and dealing with personal issues such as psychological impairment or substance abuse

Q.2 smoke alarm legislation is that the building regulation 2012 require owner to install complient mains power smoke alarm in reidential dewelling

Smoke alarm maintainance routine : check the alarm as firely secured in the correct location.

Check the required power sources connected and operating where mains power smoke are installed, they will have a green visual display. This should be easily seen when stand beneath the alarm.

Test the alarm during routine inspection or atleast every six month.

Check the alarm for build up of the dust

Check the smoke alarm are within their service usually they need to replace ib every 10 years.

Q.3 dignity of risk :- Be sensitive and do not give help to those people who do not want. If they want be sure that given help is within their comfort zone and in a manner that it is respectful. You would have to ask people about attorney about legal ramification of supporting people who need help with their activities of daily living . As to the ethical consideration regarding their dignity, the best thing you can do is to provide stand by assistance but allow them to do as much as they are physically able to do. If you see them struggling gentally ask them that is they need help if the answer came is "no" then leave it at that. Some people will go to great length to avoid asking for help and will devise ways that enable them to keep their independence. Sometime with the use of mechanical devices

Q.4 in Duty of care professional have responsibility to their client to reduce or limit the amount of harm or injury they may experience.this responsibility is called duty of care and it can sometime seem overwhelming, for example our responsibility to one party such as employer might conflict deeply with our responsiblity to our client it helps to remeber that duty of care is balancing act.