In health and social care there are numerous acts, policies and procedures that are implemented to ensure the wellbeing and safety of all individuals and employees. Within the context of this assignment I will focus upon and consider the influence of legislation and national standards and explain how they promote and maximise the rights of service users. These will include “ The Human Rights Act 1998, The Data Protection Act, The Care Standards Act 2000 and the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) I will also illustrate how other factors such as communication, policies and procedures play an important role in promoting and maximising he rights of service users of health care services.

Learning Outcome 1.1 - Explain how current legislation and sector skills standards influence organisational policies and practices for promoting and maximising the rights of users of H≻ services.

˜Legislation (or "statutory law ) is law which has been produce by a governing body in order to regulate, to authorise, to sanction, to grant, to declare or to restrict. In terms of events, Legislation defines the governing legal principles outlining the responsibilities of event organisers, and other stakeholders such as the local authority, to protect the safety of the public.'
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Legislation aims to get rid of direct and indirect discrimination, promote positive outcomes, to guide others in their practice of care and to allow them to learn from their past mistakes. Both legislation and policy are always evolving and changing, this is in order for them to serve and protect clients from discrimination. Within my placement I ensure that I attend all mandatory training so that I am aware of all new policies which will enable me to provide a better quality of care to my service users. However, the law will always override policy, meaning it is essential to keep policy and procedure under revie...