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Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Health and Social Care

Responding to concerns, suspicions, and disclosures

HSC304 · Health, Safety and Wellbeing in Health and Social Care Settings — Week 10 of 16

CourseHSC304
Week10 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Responding to concerns, suspicions, and disclosures

  1. Immediate actions on suspicion of abuse
  2. Objective recording of factual evidence
  3. Whistleblowing policies and escalation
  4. Maintaining confidentiality and data protection
  5. Abuse and Neglect: Home Health
  6. Employment law: Whistleblowing
  7. 5 Scenarios of Maintaining Patient Confidentiality
  8. How to report concerns

What you will be able to do

  • 3.2 Explain the action to take if there are suspicions that an individual is being abused.

Activity

Start with this week’s 4 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain the action to take if there are suspicions that an individual is being abused.

Study materials

Videos

  • Abuse and Neglect: Home Health · YouTube · Wagley Agency · 11 min · for registered students
  • Employment law: Whistleblowing · YouTube · marcuscleaver · 7 min · for registered students
  • 5 Scenarios of Maintaining Patient Confidentiality · YouTube · Etactics · 4 min · for registered students
  • How to report concerns · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 3 (lower secondary level) · for registered students

Further resources

  • Safeguarding adults in care homes (NICE guideline NG189, 2021) · Reading · Nice, guidance · for registered students
  • Care and support statutory guidance (Care Act 2014, DHSC) · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
  • The Caldicott Principles (National Data Guardian, 2020) · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Health and safety legislation and workplace policies
  • Week 2: Workplace responsibilities and mandatory training requireme…
  • Week 3: Principles of safe moving and handling
  • Week 4: Safe handling of hazardous substances
  • Week 5: The chain of infection and transmission pathways
  • Week 6: Infection control practices and personal hygiene
  • Week 7: Safeguarding definitions and primary abuse types
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Further categories of abuse and vulnerability factors
  • Week 10: Responding to concerns, suspicions, and disclosures
  • Week 11: Multi-agency safeguarding frameworks
  • Week 12: Applying Health, Safety and Wellbeing in Health and Social …
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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