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Duration (approx) / 4 hours
Qualification suite covered / BTEC Level 1/Level 2 First Award in Health and Social Care
BTECLevel 1/Level 2 First Certificate in Health and Social Care
BTEC Level 1/Level 2 First Extended Certificate in Health and Social Care
BTEC Level 1/Level 2 First Diploma in Health and Social Care
Units covered / Unit 7: Equality and Diversity in Health and Social Care
Learning aims covered / Learning aim B: Explain how health and social care practices can promote equality and diversity
Scenario / You are on work experience in one of the following settings:
- aholiday complex for families with children who have additional needs
- aday centre for older adults
- ahostel for young homeless people
- acommunity centre.
For this taskyou must choose one of the above settings to base your work on.
Task / Meeting Different Needs
You have been asked by the manager of your chosen setting to prepare and deliver a presentation to a new management team. Your presentation mustassess the effectiveness of health and social care provision, with regard to meeting the needs of two individuals with differing needs.
Your presentation must include:
- a description of the differing needs of your two individuals as service users in health and social care
- an explanation of the benefits of adapting health and social care provision to meet the diverse needs of individuals, referring to your two individuals
- a description of how health and social care provision can be adapted to meet the diverse needs of individuals, with reference to your two individuals
- your judgements as to whether the provision wasappropriate and sufficient overall based on the supplied evidence.
Evidence you must produce for this task /
- PowerPoint® presentation, with speaker notes.
- Observation record and/or a recording of the presentation.
- Your research notes.
Criteria covered by this task:
To achieve the criteria you must show that you are able to: / Unit / Criterion reference
Describe the different needs of service users in health and social care, with reference to examples. / 7 / 2B.P3
Describe how health and social care provision can be adapted to meet the diverse needs of different individuals, with reference to examples. / 7 / 2B.P4
Explain the benefits of adapting health and social care provision to meet the diverse needs of different individuals, with reference to two selected examples. / 7 / 2B.M2
Assess the effectiveness of health and social care provision for different individuals with diverse needs, with reference to two selected examples. / 7 / 2B.D2
Sources of information / Textbooks
Higgins, H. et al. (2013)BTEC Level 2 First Health and Social Care Student Book,Harlow: Pearson Education, 9781 44690 135 9
Haworth, E. and Ashton, A. (2009) Edexcel GCSE Health and Social Care: Student Book, Harlow: Pearson Education, 978 1 84650 373 1
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If you have not achieved the Level 2 criteria, your work will be assessed to determine if the following Level 1 criteria have been met.
To achieve the criteria you must show that you are able to: / Unit / Criterion reference
Identify the different needs of individuals in relation to health and social care provision. / 7 / 1B.3
Identify ways that health and social care provision can be adapted to meet the diverse needs of a selected individual. / 7 / 1B.4
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