This publication focuses on the human rights of people receiving residential care services, outlining what human rights are and the key terms and the legal framework relating to human rights and residential care. The United Kingdom has incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into domestic law, which sets out a range of rights particularly relevant to older people’s care homes. The document gives a brief description of these rights, including: right to life, prohibition of torture, and inhuman or degrading treatment, right to liberty and security, right to respect for private and family life, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression, freedom of association and assembly, right to marry and found a family, prohibition on discrimination in the enjoyment of ECHR rights, protection of property, and right to free elections. Other laws, including the Equality Act 2010 and the Mental Capacity Act, are also highlighted in this publication as relevant to the protection of human rights in the context of residential care.
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This publication focuses on the human rights of people receiving residential care services, outlining what human rights are and the key terms and the legal framework relating to human rights and residential care. The United Kingdom has incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into domestic law, which sets out a range of rights particularly relevant to older people’s care homes. The document gives a brief description of these rights, including: right to life, prohibition of torture, and inhuman or degrading treatment, right to liberty and security, right to respect for private and family life, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression, freedom of association and assembly, right to marry and found a family, prohibition on discrimination in the enjoyment of ECHR rights, protection of property, and right to free elections. Other laws, including the Equality Act 2010 and the Mental Capacity Act, are also highlighted in this publication as relevant to the protection of human rights in the context of residential care.
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human rights, older people, European Convention on Human Rights, residential care, dignity;
This resource pack aims to support care staff and managers working in residential elderly care to adopt a positive approach to risk that focuses on promoting the human rights of residents in a balanced and fair way and enabling residents – as far as possible – to make their own decisions about what they can and cannot do. The resource is based on two fundamental principles: first, that the best relationships between people who live and work in residential care happen when there is a shared understanding of what acceptable levels of risk look like in particular situations; and second, that the best care for residents happens when the main role of risk management is to enable residents to enjoy their human rights and live their lives in a way that they value, as opposed to avoiding risk to defend the home from potential blame or reputational loss. The resource pack contains three toolkits: toolkit 1 - front line staff, considering why thinking about risk positively can protect the rights of older people and what positive risk enablement means and how to do it; toolkit 2 - leaders and managers, examining their role in creating a positive attitude to risk within their home; and toolkit 3 - balancing risks and decision making, explaining how to be creative about managing the outcome of risk assessment and better support the rights of residents.
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This resource pack aims to support care staff and managers working in residential elderly care to adopt a positive approach to risk that focuses on promoting the human rights of residents in a balanced and fair way and enabling residents – as far as possible – to make their own decisions about what they can and cannot do. The resource is based on two fundamental principles: first, that the best relationships between people who live and work in residential care happen when there is a shared understanding of what acceptable levels of risk look like in particular situations; and second, that the best care for residents happens when the main role of risk management is to enable residents to enjoy their human rights and live their lives in a way that they value, as opposed to avoiding risk to defend the home from potential blame or reputational loss. The resource pack contains three toolkits: toolkit 1 - front line staff, considering why thinking about risk positively can protect the rights of older people and what positive risk enablement means and how to do it; toolkit 2 - leaders and managers, examining their role in creating a positive attitude to risk within their home; and toolkit 3 - balancing risks and decision making, explaining how to be creative about managing the outcome of risk assessment and better support the rights of residents.
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Subject terms:
older people, human rights, residential care, care homes, risk management, risk assessment, decision making;
This resource pack aims to help care home staff – and especially frontline staff – make the most of effective resident engagement by using it in a way that actively supports and promotes the human rights of residents and their relatives and carers. The resource contains five toolkits: toolkit 1 - frontline staff and decision making, examining why good quality decision-making is essential to promoting human rights and providing practical tips on what frontline staff can do to empower residents and improve the quality of decision-making; toolkit 2 – frontline staff and communication, considering why a good quality approach to communication is essential to promoting human rights and including practical tips on what frontline staff can do to empower residents and improve the quality of communication; toolkit 3 – frontline staff and complaints, explaining why complaints should be seen as a by-product of a good quality care environment, and the role that complaints can play in assuring and protecting human rights; toolkit 4 - front line staff and bias, looking at how to improve non-discriminatory practice as a care worker; and toolkit 5 - leadership and resident engagement, focusing on the role of leaders in creating an environment where engagement can flourish and human rights are promoted.
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This resource pack aims to help care home staff – and especially frontline staff – make the most of effective resident engagement by using it in a way that actively supports and promotes the human rights of residents and their relatives and carers. The resource contains five toolkits: toolkit 1 - frontline staff and decision making, examining why good quality decision-making is essential to promoting human rights and providing practical tips on what frontline staff can do to empower residents and improve the quality of decision-making; toolkit 2 – frontline staff and communication, considering why a good quality approach to communication is essential to promoting human rights and including practical tips on what frontline staff can do to empower residents and improve the quality of communication; toolkit 3 – frontline staff and complaints, explaining why complaints should be seen as a by-product of a good quality care environment, and the role that complaints can play in assuring and protecting human rights; toolkit 4 - front line staff and bias, looking at how to improve non-discriminatory practice as a care worker; and toolkit 5 - leadership and resident engagement, focusing on the role of leaders in creating an environment where engagement can flourish and human rights are promoted.
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Subject terms:
leadership, human rights, older people, user participation, care homes, residential care;
This resource pack aims to help commissioners of residential care for older people to support and promote the human rights of care users. The resource contains three toolkits: market development - exploring ways in which commissioners’ market-development role can be used to promote the development of a local residential care economy that has the protection and promotion of human rights at its centre; designing services - developing a more nuanced understanding of how to design services that better protect and promote human rights; and management and monitoring - identifying whether human rights are being protected and promoted by the providers you commission and will support mutual learning and development with care providers on this topic.
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This resource pack aims to help commissioners of residential care for older people to support and promote the human rights of care users. The resource contains three toolkits: market development - exploring ways in which commissioners’ market-development role can be used to promote the development of a local residential care economy that has the protection and promotion of human rights at its centre; designing services - developing a more nuanced understanding of how to design services that better protect and promote human rights; and management and monitoring - identifying whether human rights are being protected and promoted by the providers you commission and will support mutual learning and development with care providers on this topic.
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Subject terms:
human rights, older people, commissioning, residential care, monitoring, service development, markets, market development;
This resource pack aims to help leaders of residential care homes for older people promote a human rights culture throughout their homes. It is in two parts and covers the following: promoting a rights based culture, considering why the leader’s role is critical in promoting human rights and how a human rights based culture can be enhanced within a care home; and recruiting and supporting staff, looking at how staff can be supported to make decisions for themselves about protecting and promoting human rights and how to review recruitment practices to ensure new joiners share a commitment to providing compassionate care that promotes human rights.
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This resource pack aims to help leaders of residential care homes for older people promote a human rights culture throughout their homes. It is in two parts and covers the following: promoting a rights based culture, considering why the leader’s role is critical in promoting human rights and how a human rights based culture can be enhanced within a care home; and recruiting and supporting staff, looking at how staff can be supported to make decisions for themselves about protecting and promoting human rights and how to review recruitment practices to ensure new joiners share a commitment to providing compassionate care that promotes human rights.
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Subject terms:
leadership, older people, care homes, residential care, human rights, recruitment, staff development, values;