duty of care and support shifts
So, regarding the duty of care, we saw that this is a topic that not a lot of support workers understand in depth. At the time of writing and recording, I am currently in the process of changing support agencies for community access. We see that people know the term but at the same time do not understand it since people are unable to define the concept of duty of care and support and they need to be tightly defined to be able to understand what people are talking about. As we do hear and see a lot about a lack of duty of care and it is a legal concept in nursing, childcare, foster care, teaching, and disability services, just to name a few services that have it embedded into the model of care as it is a part of the care that is needed for a person. It is defined as that a person who is responsible for a child or an adult is responsible for the other person a child or a vulnerable adult and this means that they have a legal obligation to protect the person they are caring for or resp