Human Rights Act 1998 The Data Protection Act 1998 Codes of practice that relate to the handling of information in health and social care are: Codes of Practice – set out by Skills for care CSSIW guidelines 2. The main points of the data protection act are: 1. Personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully and‚ in particular‚ shall not be processed unless- 1. at least one of the conditions in Schedule 2 is met‚ and 2. in the case of sensitive personal data‚ at least one
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place regarding the handling of information include: • Data Protection Act 1998 The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which defines UK law on the processing of data on identifiable living people. It is the main piece of legislation that governs the protection of personal data in the UK. Although the Act itself does not mention privacy‚ it was enacted to bring UK law into line with the EU data protection directive of 1995 which required Member
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Assignment 301 Understanding roles‚ responsibilities and relationships in education and training Gavin Hayden Word count:1‚632 Task A Information leaflet: You have been asked to produce a leaflet that mentors within your organisation can use when supporting new members of staff. The leaflet needs to outline some of your organisation’s procedures and be a useful reference point. In this document you will: A) explain the teaching training role and responsibilities in education and training (ref
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AAi Identify four key pieces of Legislation and Codes of Practice relating to handling information in social care setting. 1). Data Protection Act 1998 - Gives rights to individuals in respect of personal data held about them. It also seeks to protect individuals with regard to the processing of personal data.2). Freedom of Information Act 2000 - The Freedom of Information Act gives you the right to ask any public sector organisation for all the recorded information they have on any subject. Anyone
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influence health and social care settings Data Protection Act 1998 The act is protected and covers the individual’s personal data about their living so that the persons are protected from exploitation. (Beryl Stretch‚ 2010) explains this act is important to protect people’s personal belongings and which can cover broadsheet and the electrical accounts. You can see underneath that it has been already identified the variety of rights in Data Protection Act 1998 that is provided which includes: *
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recommendations. A whole raft of legislation‚ standards and guidance on what has become known as ’Information Governance’ has been produced in the last few years to cover issues of access‚ confidentiality and disclosure. The Health and Social Care Act 2008 established the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care (NIGB) as the body with statutory duty to oversee information governance. One of its functions is to allow the common law duty of confidentiality to be set aside in
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CIPD – 3RAI – Recording‚ analysing and using HR information GFM needs to collect and record data for legal and internal reasons. Legally we need to ensure that we are complying with the “Working Time Regulations and pay rates for the Minimum Wage Act 1998 and tax and national insurance obligations”‚ we also need to be complaint with the data protection and freedom of information act. We need to ensure that employees know why we are holding this information and how we secure it. Internally we use
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The data protection act 1998 is the main piece of legislation that governs the protection of personal data in the UK. It defines the law on processing data on people living within the United Kingdom. The data protection act is set you in eight principles: Personal data must be processed fairly and lawfully. Personal data must only be obtained for a specific and lawful purpose it shall not be processed in any manner incompatible with the purpose it was acquired for. All personal data must be
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procedure to follow if this is not the case. The following factors have been implemented in order that there are guidelines in place‚ it also helps protect staff and learners while in a teaching environment – these include: Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) – all workers have a right to work in places where risks to their health and safety are properly controlled. Health and safety is about stopping you from getting hurt at work or ill through work. Your employer is responsible for health and safety
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social care The Data Protection Act 1998 covers anything relating to a person‚ medical records‚ social service records‚ credit information‚ local authority information. There are eight enforceable principles: Personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully Adequate‚ relevant and not excessive Accurate Not kept for longer than necessary Process in accordance with the data subject rights Not transferred to countries without adequate protection The Data protection Act also allows people
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