Identify how rights and choices can be promoted in a real care service

In this final section you’ll have a chance to imagine what it’s like to promote rights and choices in everyday practice. You’ll look around a bedroom, ensuite bathroom and stairway in a care home service and identify items in each room which provide care workers an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and skills in this area.

As you explore the rooms and items in the 360 tour we hope you will be able to make some links to the knowledge you’ve gained so far in this resource.

We suggest you try to make some connections between the items and

• human rights and equality
• choice and control
• safeguarding.

Helping people to safeguard themselves from harm, while also promoting their rights and choices, is a core area of practice for all types of care professional and a good understanding can help you in your career. In fact, everyone who completes a care qualification in the workplace (called a Scottish Vocational Qualification, or SVQ) will do a mandatory unit about safeguarding. The safeguarding unit for childcare is similar to the safeguarding unit in social care. We’ve used them as inspiration for this activity.

We want to thank everyone at Balhousie Care Group’s Brookfield care home service for helping us create this scene.

This activity is inspired by the experiences of people living and working in care homes. It is fictional and not based on a real person.

Explore the eight items in the scene marked with a question mark icon to read examples of how rights and choices can be promoted in every day practice.

While this example is based in a care home you should be able to transfer your learning to any role.

If you are using a mobile phone this may use additional data so we recommend you connect to wifi if possible.