Case Study:
You are a disability worker, and your client has indicated that he wants to go to a dance festival. He has a health condition and if he gets bumped his bones break easily. He communicates using eye movement. For example: (1 blink means yes, and 2 blinks means no). His family says that he cannot go to the concert because he is likely to get hurt. You are going to the festival yourself on the weekend, so you arrange with one of the group homes staff members where he lives to pick him up and you take him to the festival in your car.
The parents are very angry, and they complain to the supervisor.
Questions:
a) What ethical frameworks (Code of ethics) might inform workers with regard to the scenario?
b) Identify and explain 1 legal concern that is raised in the scenario.
c) List 3 policies that might inform the workers about their conduct in relation to the scenario.
d) What service standards inform workers in this scenario?
e) What penalties/risks/consequences are likely to result from this scenario?
f) Who would need to be notified (relevant authority) about this legal or ethical incident?
g) What documentation would need to be completed and submitted as a follow up to the incident?
h) When might an organisation need to seek legal advisors in relation to this scenario?
i) What can be done to reduce the harm done or to remedy the situation?
j) Document any Workplace health and safety issues?
k) List 5 things that a manager needs to consider as a consequence of each legal/ethical issue.
l) List 5 things that a worker needs to consider with regard to their role and responsibilities in relation to each legal/ethical issue.
m) What steps are necessary to ensure that compliance with legal or ethical responsibilities occurs and is satisfactorily monitored?