1. To examine positive working practices.
L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices – P4
Lesson Aims:
To examine positive working practices.
Learning Outcomes:
All students will be able to identify 4 positive working practices.
Most students will be able to describe 5 positive working practices.
Some students will be able to explain 5 positive working practices and their effects on service users and professionals.

2. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices – P4
Starter:
Working in pairs, collect ideas on what you think positive working practices are.
Positive working practice means to work in a way that supports people to live their lives to their full potential and best quality.
Extension: suggest some examples from your placement or personal life (remember to maintain confidentiality).
Offering choices of food or clothing; discussing treatment available; adapting activities so all can participate

3. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices – P4
Activity:
Read the section below and then in your own words, sum up what positive working practices are.
Positive working practice enables health and social care workers to meet the specific needs of clients. Each area of work needs to ensure that it meets the needs of all individuals. This means that everyone must have access to all these services regardless of their abilities. Positive working practice becomes a great asset when considering how it can be applied to help those with additional needs. Before this was implemented, it was a common for individuals with additional needs to be expected to fit in with the rest of society.

4. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices – P4
Activity:
Working individually, using the positive working practices allocated to you, create a poster that explains it and gives an example. You will present your poster to the class.
Person-centred planning: Supporting communication
Common Assessment Framework Advocates
Needs-led assessment Signers
Integrated practice to encourage personal growth Technological aids
Balancing risk with individual rights Visual aids & symbols
Supporting choice Makaton
Empowering individuals
Positive working practice: Supporting access:
Personal care Physical support: ramps, mobility aids, Appropriate touch wheelchairs mobility scooters, access symbols
Promote self-image Changing & toilet facilities
Remote coping strategies
Safeguarding and safe practice
Promoting independence
Enabling
Positive reinforcement
Financial support

5. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices – P4
Plenary:
Discuss how failing to use positive working practices could affect service users.
Extension: how could this affect health and social care
professionals?

6. To examine positive working practices.
L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices – P4
Lesson Aims:
To examine positive working practices.
Evaluate Learning Outcomes:
All students will be able to identify 4 positive working practices.
Most students will be able to describe 5 positive working practices.
Some students will be able to explain 5 positive working practices and their effects on service users and professionals.

7. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive working practice & Legislation – M2
Lesson Aims:
To review laws and guidance relevant to caring for people with additional needs.
Learning Outcomes:
All students will be able to identify 4 laws underpinning positive working practice.
Most students will be able to describe 4 laws underpinning positive working practice.
Some students will be able to explain 4 laws underpinning positive working practice and their effects on service users and professionals.

8. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices Legislation – P4 & M2
Starter:
There are laws and rules that underpin positive working practices. As a class collect some ideas of what they are.
Activity:
Work in pairs create an A4 hand-out that explains each of the topics provided. You should include at least 1 example for each topic. You will present your research to the class.

9. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices Legislation – P4 & M2
Laws:
The Equality Act 2010
Mental Health Act 1983
Disability Discrimination Act
Human Rights Act
Data Protection Act
Nursing and Residential Care Homes Regulations
Care Standards Act
Carers and Disabled Children Act
UN Convention on Disability rights
Principles and Values:
Promoting equality and diversity of people who use services
Promoting individual rights and beliefs
Maintaining confidentiality
Making the welfare of the child paramount
Keeping children safe
Maintaining a healthy environment
Working in partnership with parents/families
Supporting children’s learning and development
Valuing diversity
Equality of opportunity
Anti-discriminatory practice
Working with others
Reflective practitioners
Guidance:
Codes of practice
Charters
Policies
Role of General Social Care Council England
Improving Life Chances of Disabled People
A New Strategy for Learning Disabilities for the 21st Century (White Paper)
Fair Access to Care services

10. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices Legislation – P4 & M2
Plenary:
Create a mission statement for health and social care professionals that demonstrates following the law and positive working practice.
Extension:
discuss what might happen if you did not follow the mission statement of the organisation you worked for.

11. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive working practice & Legislation – M2
Lesson Aims:
To review laws and guidance relevant to caring for people with additional needs.
Evaluate Learning Outcomes:
All students will be able to identify 4 laws underpinning positive working practice.
Most students will be able to describe 4 laws underpinning positive working practice.
Some students will be able to explain 4 laws underpinning positive working practice and their effects on service users and professionals.

12. Starter: Present research to the class.
L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices Legislation – P4 & M2
Starter:
Present research to the class.

13. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices Legislation – P4 & M2
Activity:
Create a power point presentation using the Beeches Case Study.
Introduce case study – Beeches Residential Home (Learning Disability).
In pairs, work through each scenario identifying the poor working practice and legislation not being followed.
Suggest a better way for handling each situation, justifying your decisions.
Extension: Describe the possible impact on the
various service users of the situation and improvements.

14. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices Legislation – P4
Plenary: Introduce Task 3 & discuss requirements
P4: Explain positive working practice with individuals with additional learning needs
Booklet – Part A should include:
• Principles of care (equality & diversity; individual rights; confidentiality)
• Positive working practice (supporting access; personal care; promoting independence; supporting communication; empowering care; safeguarding)
• Person centred planning (CAF; needs-led assessment)
For each point above you must explain what it is and say why/how it helps to provide the best care for people with additional needs.

15. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices Legislation – P4
Booklet – Part A should include:
Principles of care:
Write an introduction of what we mean by principles of care. You could include:
based on human rights belonging to all people;
aim to ensure equality for all;
tell us why we need to work in a certain way;
List examples of principles of care you will explore further – equality & diversity; individual rights; confidentiality
Equality & diversity:
Explain what this is
Why should we ensure this for people with additional needs?
Say how we could ensure it for someone with additional needs?
Individual rights:
Explain what the individual rights are (dignity; privacy; safeguarding; respected; treated as an individual; not to be discriminated against; cared for in way that meets needs; communicate in preferred method; access to information about self)
Give an example of how ensuring each of these for someone with additional needs helps them to have a better life
Confidentiality:
What is this about?
How can we ensure it and how does it help people with additional needs?
For each point above you must explain what it is and say why/how it helps to provide the best care for people with additional needs.

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Principles of Care:
Agreed values
Rules of profession
Working in a way to provide best quality care
Working in a way to provide best quality life
How to explain:
Tell me about it as if I know absolutely nothing
Give an example to show your points
Say how or why it affects what you are talking about (additional needs)

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18. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices Legislation – P4

19. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices Legislation – P4
Positive working practice: explain what this is
Supporting access:
What is this?
How and why should this be done
What benefit does it have for person with additional needs?
Personal care:
Promoting independence:
Supporting communication:
Empowering care:
Safeguarding:
For each point above you must explain what it is and say why/how it helps to provide the best care for people with additional needs.

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21. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices Legislation – P4
Booklet – Part A should include:
Person centred planning – write an introduction to what this is:
Keeping individual at heart of all processes – why should we do this? How does it help people with additional needs?
CAF:
Explain what it is
Explain where it came from
Explain how is it carried out
Explain how could it help people with additional needs
Explain how could it help the professionals working with people with additional needs?
Needs-led assessment:
What is this? (looking first at what the individual’s requirements are and then building a service that meets these needs)
Why is it carried out? (empowerment, inclusion, independence)
How is it carried out? (informal 1:1 meetings with individual; review of professional notes)
What sorts of information is gathered and how is it used?
For each point above you must explain what it is and say why/how it helps to provide the best care for people with additional needs.

22. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices Legislation – M2
Plenary: Introduce Task 3 & discuss requirements
M2: Summarise legislation or guidance that informs current practice with regard to individuals with additional needs
Booklet – Part B should include a clear outline of each of the following:
• Equality Act
• Data Protection Act
• Nursing and Residential Care Homes Regulations
• UN Convention on Disability Rights
Summarise: to sum up or to put things into your own words or to create
a précis of the information discussed
For each point above you must research the law and then put the main points into your own words.

23. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices Legislation – P4 & M2
Plenary: Introduce Task 3 & discuss requirements
M2: Summarise legislation or guidance that informs current practice with regard to individuals with additional needs
Booklet – Part B should include a clear outline of each of the following:
• Equality Act ( )
• Data Protection Act ( )
• Nursing and Residential Care Homes Regulations ( )
• UN Convention on Disability Rights ( or
Summarise: to sum up or to put things into your own words or to create
a précis of the information discussed
For each point above you must research the law and then put the main points into your own words.

24. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices Legislation – P4 & M2
M2: Summarise legislation or guidance that informs current practice with regard to individuals with additional needs
UN Convention on Disability Rights
The purpose of the Convention is to promote, protect and ensure the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities. People with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which, in interaction with various barriers, may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.
Summarise some of the articles found at and you must give an example of how this is implemented in the residential home.
For example: Inclusion related to transport – when arranging trips, coaches are selected that can accommodate all residents including those who require wheelchairs and supported seating. This means that all the residents are included and able to benefit from the trip, giving them a good quality life.
Summarise: to sum up or to put things into your own words or to create
a précis of the information discussed

25. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices Legislation – P4 & M2
M2: Summarise legislation or guidance that informs current practice with regard to individuals with additional needs
Data Protection Act
Provide an introduction from and then
summarise the 8 principles found on the same page.
Provide an example of how this is implemented in the residential home.
For example: Information being kept secure – all records are stored securely in the locked office which only staff have access to and electronic records are stored on password protected programs. This means that residents information remains private and residents are not at risk of being embarrassed by others knowing their details or at risk of abuse through their personal information being available to people with possible ill intentions.
Summarise: to sum up or to put things into your own words or to create
a précis of the information discussed

26. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices Legislation – P4 & M2
M2: Summarise legislation or guidance that informs current practice with regard to individuals with additional needs
Equality Act
Provide an introduction from and then
summarise the main points
Defines discrimination
Covers direct and indirect discrimination
Requires that adjustments are put in place to ensure inclusion
Requires positive action to be taken to ensure inclusion
Makes allowances that carers of people with disabilities cannot be discriminated against
Dictates that disabled people cannot be left out of clubs
Dictates that institutions must deal with harassment if they know it is happening and are liable if they do nothing to stop it from happening.
Provide an example of how this is implemented in the residential home
For example: You could say how the home ensures all residents have the opportunity to join clubs and activities on offer by making adjustments, for example if a book club is started for the residents the staff will ensure that there are picture books or audio books for those who struggle to read so that they may still take part and have a valuable and fulfilled life.
Summarise: to sum up or to put things into your own words or to create
a précis of the information discussed

27. L3 Unit 19 – Caring for individuals with additional needs: Positive Working Practices Legislation – P4 & M2
M2: Summarise legislation or guidance that informs current practice with regard to individuals with additional needs
Nursing and Residential Care Home Standards
Provide an introduction saying the purpose of the standards from and then
summarise the 18 standards
Provide an example and say how it benefits residents
For example: In the home complaints are taken seriously and are accepted in a range of ways such as written, verbal, through advocates and through observed behaviour. The staff are pro-active in seeking views, even if they are negative. This benefits the residents as they are able to have their views heard so that changes can be made to improve their standard of life and ensure they are realising their rights and living their lives as they choose to and not as others dictate they should.
Summarise: to sum up or to put things into your own words or to create
a précis of the information discussed