Providing Services

What Providing Services covers

Providing Services is examined in Unit A2 3, Providing Services — compulsory for both A level awards, though not part of the standalone AS awards. It covers the origins of the welfare state, legislation shaping service provision in Northern Ireland, safeguarding, mental health and disability legislation, policies in health and social care settings, demographic trends and their effect on services, statutory, private, voluntary and informal providers, how the providers are funded, integration, community care and evaluating provision, meeting physical, intellectual, emotional and social needs, accessing services and routes of referral, barriers to access and how they are overcome, the roles and specialisms of practitioners, interdisciplinary team working and codes of practice, regulation and quality assurance.

The 14 subtopics

Each one has its own page.

• The origins of the welfare stateWelfare state, beveridge Report and universal provision.Open →
• Legislation shaping service provision in Northern IrelandBengoa Report and difference between confidentiality and data protection.Open →
• Safeguarding, mental health and disability legislationParamountcy principle, pre-employment check in a care setting and reasonable adjustment.Open →
• Policies in health and social care settingsPolicy in a care setting and difference between a policy and a procedure.Open →
• Demographic trends and their effect on servicesAgeing population, dependency ratio and long-term condition.Open →
• Statutory, private, voluntary and informal providersStatutory provider, private provider and voluntary provider.Open →
• How the providers are fundedHow statutory, private, voluntary and informal care are funded, commissioning, block funding and payment per place, self-funders and the charge for personal care, and why social care is harder to fund than health care.Open →
• Integration, community care and evaluating provisionIntegrated approach to care and community care.Open →
• Meeting physical, intellectual, emotional and social needsFour categories of need used in health and social care, palliative care and care plan.Open →
• Accessing services and routes of referralProfessional referral, third party referral and emergency referral.Open →
• Barriers to access and how they are overcomeBarrier to accessing services, physical barriers and psychological barriers.Open →
• The roles and specialisms of practitionersWhat home care workers, care assistants, support workers, social workers, therapists, radiographers, psychologists, nurses and their specialisms, GPs and early years workers each do, and how their roles differ.Open →
• Interdisciplinary team workingInterdisciplinary team working, case conference and main barriers to effective team working.Open →
• Codes of practice, regulation and quality assuranceCode of practice, regulatory role of the Northern Ireland Social Care Council and patient and Client Council.Open →

What you need to know

Answer each one before you reveal it.

Take Providing Services further

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Commonly confused

Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.

• Private provision vs Voluntary provision

  Private provision: a business delivering care for financial gain. Voluntary provision: a non-profit body reinvesting any surplus in its purposes.

• Self-referral vs Third party referral

  Self-referral: a person approaching a service themselves. Third party referral: somebody else contacting it on their behalf.

• Professional referral vs Compulsory referral

  Professional referral: a practitioner passing a person on with their agreement. Compulsory referral: it happens whether or not the person agrees, because the law requires it.

Questions from this topic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

1. 1

   What is meant by the welfare state?

   Model answer

   The welfare state is the arrangement by which government takes responsibility for the basic welfare of its citizens, providing health care, education, housing, and income when a person cannot work, funded collectively through taxation and national insurance.

2. 2

   What conditions before the Second World War led to the welfare state?

   Model answer

   Widespread poverty, unemployment during the depression of the 1930s, poor housing and the ill health revealed by the physical condition of conscripts convinced many that charity, the Poor Law and private insurance could not meet the country's needs.

3. 3

   What was the Beveridge Report?

   Model answer

   The Beveridge Report, published in 1942, proposed a comprehensive scheme of social insurance covering every citizen from cradle to grave, funded by flat rate contributions, and it became the blueprint for the post-war welfare state.

4. 4

   Name the five giants identified in the Beveridge Report.

   Model answer

   Beveridge named Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness as the five giants standing in the way of reconstruction.

5. 5

   Which service was created to address each of Beveridge's five giants?

   Model answer

   Want was met by social security and national insurance, Disease by a national health service, Ignorance by free secondary education, Squalor by public housing programmes, and Idleness by a government commitment to full employment.

6. 6

   When was the National Health Service established, and on what principle?

   Model answer

   The National Health Service began in 1948 on the principle that health care should be available to everyone according to need rather than ability to pay, free at the point of use and funded from general taxation.

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Six ways to work the same material.

Providing Services revision questions

What does Providing Services cover in CCEA A-Level Health and Social Care?

14 subtopics: the origins of the welfare state, legislation shaping service provision in northern ireland, safeguarding, mental health and disability legislation, policies in health and social care settings, demographic trends and their effect on services, statutory, private, voluntary and informal providers, how the providers are funded, integration, community care and evaluating provision, meeting physical, intellectual, emotional and social needs, accessing services and routes of referral, barriers to access and how they are overcome, the roles and specialisms of practitioners, interdisciplinary team working and codes of practice, regulation and quality assurance. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.

How is Providing Services organised?

By the CCEA 0003 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.