Unit 1 Law, Policy & Ethical Practice in Health and Social Care

This unit focuses on the legal and regulatory frameworks that govern practice in health and social care. It covers topics such as legislation, policy, professional standards, and human rights law. The logbook is designed to help students meet their learning outcomes by reflecting on their work experience and detailing the skills acquired for employability. The logbook must be submitted along with the Turnitin Assignment to be marked and graded.

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HNC/HND Healthcare Practice for England (Healthcare
Management) LPE Log Book
The purpose of the logbook is to meet your Learning Outcomes 2- 4. You are
required to complete this logbook based on observations you have made from your
healthcare work placement. You need to complete the logbook with notes/journal
from work experience, detailing skills acquired for employability. As part of Unit 1, it
will refer to the legal and regulatory frameworks that govern practice in health and
social care. You are expected to consider and apply relevant law and regulation and
demonstrate an understanding of how these relate to ethical practice in health and
social care setting. You need to submit the logbook along with your Turnitin
Assignment to be marked and graded.
Your tutor will go through the requirements of the log book you are asked to
complete. Please make sure you understand what is required of you in advance of
commencing to complete your log book.

Suggested observation write-up (LO2)
Date and time of observation
Rationale – why these activities/tasks were chosen:
Explain the individual’s needs (for example healthcare, communication needs)
Describe briefly the details of the setting (for example location, type of setting) e.g. A and E Unit, Children
Ward,
Describe the context of the setting (for example what takes place in the setting at the time of observation)
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Observation log write up: (LO2) based on P3
Describe how legislation, policy (national and organisational) and standards are of direct
relevance to the health, care or support service practitioner
Policies are merely all the mutual relationship which helps in compliance of the law and also to
manage the safe health care practises. the state, local and all the central government varies to make
all the rules through the general public and their bis applied the safe measures through which all the
health hazards and the other overall agencies are incorporated. The organisation intend to make and
manage all the legal management and the consequences. The policies will help in managing the daily
operations and also to clarify and maintain the guidelines for all the desired outcomes. For an
example, UK Policy Framework for the Health and Social care Research helps in promoting and
managing the social care and the heath services which will attain and manage the care with the ethical
conducts and the work. Some other NHS policy are like the health and safety at work act 2003. the
major areas through which all the public guardian policy are being assigned with the violation of the
human rights and the civil areas through which the protection of other kind of abuse is managed.
The legislations which are regulated and managed in order to maintain the health and the
social care through which the compliance and the working is opted. Their is been seen that all the
health and the social care will be managed through the acts and the laws as by serving the legal duties
through which inequalities are managed. Some of the major areas are like the department of health,
public health England. This will maintain the laws and the general principles through which the
secretary of the health issues are aligned(Roberts, and Termuehlen, 2021).
The social value act 2012 will be a managed public sector through which all the environmental,
social and the other economic areas are considered. It helps in reducing the health inequalities and
also all the procurement5 through which the service in the contract is managed. The Care Act 2014
will help in managing the local authorities through which the assessing the needs and the eligibility of
the people will be incorporated. Their impose the duty to take care of all the health workers and their
management and the general areas through which the work and the promotion.
Observation log write up: (LO2) based on P4
Compare national and organisational policy against national professional standards in terms of their
professional standards in terms of their impact on health and social care practice.
Professional areas and the standards through which the level of the competent regarding the service
of all the social and the health care is managed. This manage that all the nursing and the other
important areas through which clinically process and the other guidance in the clinical practise are
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attained. This make the organisation policies to be manages and made with all the professional
standardised and their other guidance and working. The major organisation policies through which the
legislation is managed and the regulations are applied for all the enactment and the implementation of
the managed rules will be regulated.
All the organisational policies and the working through which the implementation of the national
laws and the regulations are being enacted in order to manage the national policies along with the
care quality commission through which all health social care. Strict compliance is mainly the national
policies through which the health and the social care sector through which the organisational policies
and their prominent health measures are being taken. Their are applied the professional health and
the other aspects through which all the prominent health measures and their working is managed. The
national policies and the practitioners manage the ethical and the legal terms through which the health
and the social care areas withdraw and manage the elimination of the non compliance with the major
areas and their aspects. Thus, the government will manage and apply the policies through which the
regulation of the social and the health care are attained. It helps in managing the professionalism
standard through which the decisions and the cations are underlined and the strict complacence are
achieved. Through all then strict and the other major regions their will be imposed the former nature
and the policies.
M2 Reflect on ways in which specific tasks in the health, care or support service practice
meet national professional standards within a legal framework.
The national and the professional standards are generally the organisational policies which are
being taken in order to manage the national and the other regions through which the health and the
social care is managed. For all the practitioner the policies which are being abided and used will cover
the professional standards in order to attain and manage the effectiveness and the legal tasks. For
example, there is been seen that it is the sole duty of the doctors that they take care of all the patients
and in case when they had given them the medicines or the injection then will make them to take rest
for a while and keep check on the patient (Bennett, and et. al., 2020).
D1 Evaluate all relationship between law and ethics and their general impact on
organisational policy with practice towards major protection of rights and
maintaining well being of all health, care or support service.
The ethics are generally the code of conducts and the moral practises which are been used by
all the practitioner in order to manage and make the work to be effectively done it helps in mandating
and balancing the ethical norms. The legal areas are the requirements which are needed to be
managed in order to attain and imply all the legal laws and the rules with the effective general
practises. Thus the equality act 2010, human rights act 1998 all helps in making the work to be done
for the protection of the individuals rights and safety.
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Student name
Unit number and title 1 Law, Policy and Ethical Practice in Health and
Social Care
Assessment criteria LO2 M2, LO4
Placement
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How well did you achieve the practice criteria for this unit?
What challenges did you face?
Are there any specific examples from your placement that evidence your
learning/development, e.g. adhering to policies, procedures and practice?
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What changes or improvements do you think could be implemented into practice as a result
of completing this element of the unit?
How can you action plan to develop these skills and/or qualities further/ help to improve
provision in the healthcare sector?
Student signature Date
Assessor name
Assessor signature Date
O bservation log write up: (LO3) based on P5
Explain how specific national and international human rights law influence and inform the equal and fair
treatment of others in health, care and support services. (Write down your observation based on P5, what
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you observed the practitioners do in light of P5.
In order to manage the equality there is served top manage the Equal and fair treatment through
which all the individuals are treated in an equal manner. The human rights act 1998 helps in
managing all the non discriminatory rules in order to remove the gender, race, caste, sex, religion.
The European convention of human rights 1950 promotes the strategy through which it mandate the
legislation and the judiciary to be unlined. As UK is mainly the signatory of EHCR they will be bound
by the association and will have to manage the effective rules and the principles for the
working(Bartells, and LeRoy, 2020).
As while working in the London Hospital as an administrator I realised that while the patient is
admitted they directly starts the treatment of that patient without any delay. They take the further
details of the person once the treatment is undergoing the main aim is to manage all the
organisational policies as in respect of gender, race, caste, sex. As they did not discriminate any
person while providing the treatment. All the doctors and the staff merely focused in managing the
moral and the ethical conducts through which the law and policies are addressed. So while analysing
all this I underwent that it is important to manage all the legal and the ethical conducts through which
the rules and the regulations with the norms can be managed. Hospitals will have to manage and
make sure that they are applying the human rights and are following all the guidelines and the rules
as the signatory of ECHR in domestic level.
What challenges did the person you observed face in ensuring that legislation, policy and professional
standards are adhered to when ensuring the fair treatment and safeguarding of service users in their day-to-
day tasks? (Remember, the informal discussion with the practitioner focusing on the challenges they face in
ensuring that legislation, policy and professional standards are adhered to when ensuring the fair treatment
and safeguarding of service users in their day-to-day tasks)
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Signature of placement supervisor who witnessed implementation of the Observation
Signature Date
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O bservation log write up: 2(LO3) based on P6
P6 Implement different and relevant legislation and policy in regard to safe and healthy conduct in own
practice (What did you observe with regards to P6)
For managing the young person, children band the vulnerable adults safeguarding is the important
areas in the groups through which they manage all the neglect, harms and abuse. Their are 4
important laws which are being made in order to manage the protection of the children they are like
Children and Social Work Act of 2017 this gives the authorities to the clinical commission group in
order to manage the principles and working another one is Children Act of 1989 this is made for the
welfare and the protection of the children. And lastly the Care Act of 2014 which revolves all the safe
recruitment and treatment to be managed in proper manner. some of the other acts which are being
used are like the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults it helps in making the general compliance and
the elimination of the risk of the children and the individuals.
The example of the safeguarding care for children and the adults ward in all hospitals as in my
observation is, while I was working in the London hospital a case was seen where the child was
injured and claim was raised by the parents that the mere injury is inflicted. But later on doctor
detailed and seen that it was intentionally inflicted and strict action was been taken. Here they focused
on the Care act 2014 through which all the safeguarding and the policy related work has been taken
for keeping the healthy environment.
M3 Analyse recent health and social care legislation or national policies with importance
in informing all rights and responsibilities of health, care or support service
practitioners to provide safe and equitable care.
Their are addressed so many laws and the order through which the practitioner can manage
the work and can also attain and regulate the working through general means. Their is been seen
that they will have to apply the Equality act and the NHS guidelines and the applicable law in order to
manage the rules and there working accordingly. The care act 2014 applies the duty and the guiding
rules whereas, the UN convention help in providing the norms and the general principles of
working(Cottone, Tarvydas, and Hartley, 2021).
What challenges did the person you observed face in ensuring that legislation, policy and
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DateSignature
Signature of placement supervisor who witnessed implementation of the Observation

Witness Statement (LO3)
A witness statement is used to provide a written record of students’ performance against targeted
assessment criteria. Anyone in the placement who has witnessed the skills being demonstrated can
complete this witness statement. It can be someone who does not have direct knowledge of the
qualification, unit or evidence requirements as a whole, but who is able to make a professional
judgement about the performance of the student in the given situation.
The quality of a witness statement is greatly improved, and enables the assessor to judge the
standard and validity of performance against the grading criteria, if:
 the witness is provided with clear guidance on the desirable
characteristics required for successful performance
 the evidence requirements are present on the witness testimony (this
may need further amplification for a non-assessor)
 the student or witness also provides a statement of the context in which
the evidence is set
 the witness statement does not confer an assessment decision
Student name
Qualification
Unit number and title
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Description of activity/skill Witnessed
Witness name Job role
Witness signature Date
Student name
Student signature Date
Assessor name
Assessor signature
Activity log write-up LO3
Date Time
Area Activity title:
What activity was carried out?
Brief description of the activity
Resources/Equipment
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What compliance issue did you witness during the activity?
Evaluation (What went well? What didn’t go well?)
If you did the activity again what would you change and why? What have you learned? Reflect on the
activity as a whole.
Signature of placement supervisor who witnessed implementation of activity
Signature Date
Reflective Practice Logs: Meeting the Unit Assessment Criteria
Student name
Unit number and title 1 Law, Policy and Ethical Practice in Health and Social Care
Assessment criteria LO4: P7 (circle as appropriate)
Placement
How well did you achieve the practice criteria for this unit?
What challenges did you face?
Are there any specific examples from your placement that evidence your learning/development, e.g.
adhering to policies, procedures and practice?
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What changes or improvements do you think could be implemented into practice as a result of
completing this element of the unit?( For example Describe the relationship between law, policy and
ethical requirements in relation to a real case scenario in a health or care setting.)
Law is an important area which helps in guiding and providing the laws and the varies
principles of working. In this case scenario there is analysed that the hospital management was
not been able to comply with Mental Health Act 1983 and that created a major duty on the care
and the health sector. It is the duty to provide all the workforce to be properly managed but in
spite of this the workers has made the threatening situations and the abuse so there is violation
of the safeguarding vulnerable act.
This reflected that the hospital has not fulfilled their duties and ahas not followed the
code of conducts through which all the legislation, policies and the ethics is majorly been
affected. So their can be seen that in order tom protect the rights of the person their all these
are three are needed to be applied and the compliance in relation to the mental health will have
to be manage so as to manage the safe environment. All the wrongdoer must their be
punished. It is important to manage the laws, policies and all the legislations through which the
protection of the health of the person and the treatment should be given in proper
manner(Layman, 2020).
How can you action plan to develop these skills and/or qualities further/ help to improve provision in
the healthcare sector
Student’s signature Date
Assessor’s name
Assessor’s signature Date
Student Reflective Practice Logs: Meeting the Unit Assessment Criteria
Student name
Unit number and title 1 Law, Policy and Ethical Practice in Health and Social Care
Assessment criteria LO4: P8 (circle as appropriate)
Placement
How well did you achieve the practice criteria for this unit?
In Wharlton hall, there is been seen that all the care workers were violated, threatened and were
adversely affected. So this new was later published by BBC and they had raised the
documentary of the evidence through which all the legal challenges regarding the EU of human
rights and the other mental health issues were addressed. Their is been seen that all the major
outcomes were being undertaken through which they managed and imposed all the laws and
the issues. The main aim is to avoid all the violation of the human rights and to give equal
treatment to the workers and the patients. Care act, health and safety Act and all other
important acts were being managed and maintained through which the safeguarding issues and
their general compliance and vulnerability is attained.
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What challenges did you face?
Are there any specific examples from your placement that evidence your learning/development,
e.g. adhering to policies, procedures and practice?
What changes or improvements do you think could be implemented into practice as a result of
completing this element of the unit? (For example: Explain the impact of relevant law and policy
on the outcome of a real case scenario).
How can you action plan to develop these skills and/or qualities further/ help to improve provision in
the healthcare sector?
Student’s signature Date
Assessor’s name
Assessor’s signature Date
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Exemplar Student Reflective Practice Logs: Meeting the Unit Assessment Criteria
Student name
Unit number and title 1 Law, Policy and Ethical Practice in Health and Social Care
Assessment criteria LO4: M4/D3 (circle as appropriate)
Placement
How well did you achieve the practice criteria for this unit?
What challenges did you face?
Are there any specific examples from your placement that evidence how chosen law, policy and
ethical considerations might result in difference outcomes to the case scenario.
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Critically review ways in which health, care and Support service practitioners
can ensure currency and compliance with relevant legislation and national
policy through ethical practice in relation to a real case scenario.
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Command Verbs
Command verbs are very important while answering a task to meet the assessment criterion.
According to Pearson BTEC, meaning of commonly used command words are as below:
 ANALYSE - These tasks require you to explore the different aspects of an issue, considering
the relative significance of each. You would normally need to explore causal relationships,
examining how an action will lead to a particular reaction. This type of task would not normally
require you to make judgements, but rather to drill down into an issue, exploring relationships
in depth.
 ASSESS - This requires you to weigh up the positive and negative aspects of something.
Alternatively, it might require you to explore the important and unimportant aspects of an
argument. You should build these strands into a balanced argument before reaching a final
balanced conclusion.
 CRITICALLY ANALYSE - This is a term you are unlikely to have seen before on your Level 3
or A level courses. This is when you have to explore the strengths and weaknesses of the
ideas of a theorist or claims made by a professional body before reaching a final, balanced
conclusion. You would normally begin by presenting the initial idea and arguments in favour
of it, before introducing contradictory arguments. When you present the arguments, you
should present their relative merits (e.g. their strengths and weaknesses) before summarising
your arguments and reaching a final conclusion.
 DESCRIBE - Giving an account of something including a series of
features/points/trends/factors.
 EVALUATE - This type of question will require you to give an opinion on an issue, which you
should support with relevant evidence. You should ensure that your response provides a
balanced view of the issue, exploring points for and against your argument. This should lead
to an overall conclusion where you summarise your main arguments and explain how you
have come to your final decision.
 EXPLAIN - Provide sufficient detail and/or understanding in responses. Learners use linkage
words such as ‘therefore’, ‘so that’ and ‘because’ to expand on the initial point made.
 GIVE/STATE/NAME - Provide a definition according to published frameworks/legislation.
 IDENTIFY - Provide a single word or short response to pick out the key factor(s) or element(s).
 JUSTIFY - This requires you to provide arguments in support of a particular interpretation of
or perspective on something. This should be based on the use of theoretical justifications
applied to normal business practice.
Glossary of Key Terms
 Compare
Examine qualities or characteristics to discover resemblances. "Compare" is usually stated as
"compare with": you are required to emphasis on the similarities, although differences may be
mentioned.
 Contrast
Stress dissimilarities, differences, or unlikeness of things, qualities, events, or problems.
 Criticise
Express your judgment or correctness or merit. Discuss the limitations and good points or
contributions of the plan or work in question.
 Define
Definitions call for concise, clear, authoritative meanings. Details are not required but
limitations of the definition should be briefly cited. You must keep in mind the class to which a
thing belongs and whatever differentiates the particular object from all others in the class.
 Diagram
For a question which specifies a diagram you should present a drawing, chart, plan, or
graphic representation in your answer. Generally you are expected to label the diagram and
in some cases add a brief explanation or description.
 Discuss
The term discuss, which appears often in essay questions, directs you to examine, analyse
carefully, and present considerations pro and con regarding the problems or items involved.
This type of question calls for a complete and entailed answer.
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 Enumerate
The word enumerate specifies a list or outline form of reply. In such questions you should
recount, one by one, in concise form, the points required.
 Explain
In explanatory answers it is imperative that you clarify and interpret the material you present.
In this sage it is best to state the "how or why," reconcile any differences in opinion or
experimental results, and, where possible, state causes. The aim is to make explain the
conditions towards the explanation.
 Illustrate
A question which asks you to illustrate usually requires you to explain or clarify your
explanation by presenting a figure, picture, diagram, or concrete example.
 Interpret
An interpretation question is similar to one requiring explanation. You are expected to
translate, exemplify, solve, or comment upon the subject and usually to give your judgment or
reaction to the problem.
 List
Listing is similar to enumeration. You are expected in such questions to present an itemised
series or tabulation. Such answers should always be given in concise form.
 Outline
An outline answer is organized description. You should give main points and essential
supplementary materials, omitting minor details, and present the information in a systematic
arrangement or classification.
 Prove
A question which requires proof is one which demands confirmation or verification. In such
discussions you should establish something with certainty by evaluating and citing
experimental evidence or by logical reasoning.
 Relate
In a question which asks you to show the relationship or to relate, your answer should
emphasise connections and associations in descriptive form.
 Review
A review specifies a critical examination. You should analyse and comment briefly in
organised sequence upon the major points of the problem.
 Summarise
When you are asked to summarise or present a summarisation, you should present in
condensed form the main points or facts. All details, illustrations and elaboration are to be
omitted.
 Trace
When a question asks you to trace a course of events, you are required to provide a
description of progress, historical sequence, or development from the point of origin. Such
narratives may call for probing or for deduction.
Source: adapted from; Faculty of Humanities study skill website, Communication Skills Development
Center, University of South Carolina @
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