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13. Community Connections’ Ethics
a) Please pick two of the 6 principles of Community Connections Ethics.
Describe in your own words what the principle means for you in your role as a support person.
AND
Give an example of how you have behaved in a way that supports that ethical principal.
1) Ethical Principle:
Maintenance of trust, confidence and integrity
Example of supporting that principal:
In my role as a support worker this principle means that I must be aware that my
values affect my professional decisions and take responsibility for my decisions and
actions. It also means that am committed to learning, to ongoing communication with
people with disabilities and to creating partnerships with vulnerable people.
An example of how I support this principle is that I strive to critically examine the
decisions I make that will affect the people I support. I take advantage of opportunities
to learn about my job and so improve my practice. I listen to what the people I support
tell me about their needs and experience of disability and how they feel about the
quality of my support.
2) Ethical Principle:
Justice, fairness and equity
Example of supporting that principal:
In my role as a support worker this principle means that I support people to access
community resources they want or need to use and to express their civil or legal rights
and responsibilities. I should act as an advocate in some circumstances and support
people to self-advocate where possible.
b) Describe how applying a person-­‐centred approach to planning is supported by Community
Connections’ ethic?
(That is, when Community Connections is acting ethically, how are we also applying a person-­centred
approach to planning?)
When we consider choice, individuality, respect, confidentiality etc in our planning, we
are also following ethical principles of trust, justice, fairness etc.
A learner response:
By using a person centred approach to planning we can follow the aims and aspirations of the
supported person. The supported person is the expert on their own life and past history and is the
best person to decide which road to take on their journey into the future. The ethics of Community
Connections are:
ETHICS
The core principles are:
• Respect for person’s right to make decisions on their own behalf
• Promoting the interests of another (beneficence)
• Protecting them from harm (non-maleficence)
• Protecting and supporting the most vulnerable
Source:Code of Ethics for Community Connections. (Adapted from J. Taylor, 2000 & P. Boyles
2002)Staff Handbook Page 16
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