Disability support workers and Gossip,
Hey guys so this is the start of the new year and I am going to be focusing on the YouTube and podcast a lot more but this is a topic that is very close to my heart and it goes right to the heart of disability culture and it’s support worker culture, and I know I have to be very careful about what I say but can I say that some of you need to have a refresher in ethics in support. As some of you are doing one of two things that people that doesn’t help people with a disability. Either treating them like a friend and gossiping with them, and forgetting that this is a massive breach of ethics and privacy for support workers, friends and family and depending on the client a massive risk to yourself. Or going the extreme other way and treating a clients right to privacy as an excuse to not check in with them, and to leave them isolated and without support and favouring other clients. So we need to find the middle ground of what support they needs. I am also needing to make it cl