Legislation

Legislation

1. The Health And Social Act 2012

   • no decisions about me without me is intended to be the guiding principle by which patients are treated.
   • enabling patients to have more control over the care they receive and that those responsible for patient care. they have freedom and power to commission care that meets local needs

2. The Equality Act 2010

   • makes direct and indirect discrimination on the basis of a protected characteristics illegal.
   • Prohibits discrimination in education, employment, access to goods and services and housing
   • covers victimisation and harassment on the basis of a protected characteristics
   • reasonable adjustments have to be made by employers or providers of good or services for those with disabilities; for example installing a ramp
   • Women's have the right to breast feed in public places. it is against the law for a women to get less favourable treatment
   • encourages positive actions. encouraging and training people to apply for jobs or take part in activity in which people with the protected characteristics are under-represented
   • pay secrecy clauses are now illegal
   • covering the laws of discrimination

3. The Mental Capacity Act 2004

   • presumption of capacity. every adult has the right to make their own decisionmust be assumed to have capacity to do so unless it is proved otherwise
   • support to make own decisions. a person must be given all practicable help before anyone treats them as not being able to make their own decision
   • unwise decisions. people have the right to make what others may regard as an unwise or eccentric decision. everyone has their own preferences, values and beliefs which may not be the same as those of others: that cannot be treated as lacking capacity for thinking differently .
   • best interests. action taken or decision made under the Act or on behalf of a person who lacks capacity must be done in their best interest
   • they shoud try to involve the person, or consider weather the decisions could be put off until the person regains capacity
   • less restrictive option. anything done for or behalf of a person who lacks capacity should be least restrictive of their basic rights and freedom

4. The Data Protection Act 1998

5. Human Rights Act 1998

6. Children And Families Act 2014

7. The Care Act 2014