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Duty of Care in Health and Social Care

Duty of care in Health and Social care is a legal and professional obligation to safeguard the people in your care, including those that use your services or are exposed to what you do. This therefore entails acting in their best interests to prevent harm.

As a care worker, support worker, your legal duty of care extends to those you care for and support, you have a duty of care for yourself and for those that you work with and other professionals that come into contact with you in your role. Duty of care is part of your responsibility and its not something that you can opt out.

Duty of care is a fundamental element of safeguarding. In care settings this is even more important because we are dealing with people who are at more risk and are vulnerable. Safeguarding and duty of care go hand in hand. This means , you have a duty to safeguard individuals, to promote wellbeing and to ensure that people are kept safe from abuse, harm or injury.

By working according to your duty of care, you are not just meeting your legal responsibilities, but meeting your moral responsibilities too. This will also result in delivering high quality of care.

In our duty of care workshops and courses we discuss this in more detail and we also cover how you can demonstrate duty of care, we look at examples of duty of care and managing duty of care dillemas and responsibilities.

Contact us on: 07949917523  or info@frontlineprofessionals.co.uk if interested in our Care Courses.