Who needs to
understand and apply
ethical decision-making?
SAFEGUARDING RESPONSE
The responsibility for ethical decision-making is shared across the disability community, including safeguarding providers and professionals, health practitioners, support workers, whānau, family, caregivers, intimate partners, flatmates, neighbours, and friends.
Ethical decision-making requires professionals, support people, and organisations to thoughtfully consider:
a person’s human rights, including the right to make their own decisions
a person’s will and preferences, identity, and culture
the risk of harm (including violence, abuse, or neglect, or exploitation)
legal obligations, professional duties, and organisational responsibilities
the potential impact of action or inaction on the person and others.
This information:
has been developed for safeguarding providers and professionals, to inform your policies, procedures, and ethical decision-making practice, and
is also intended as a practical guide for multi-agency teams, whānau, families, caregivers and other support people involved in safeguarding adults.
These videos help to convey the importance of upholding human rights.
In this video, Australian women with disabilities talk about the human rights of all people to make decisions about their lives.
The video was produced by Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA), 2016.
This video provides advice for governors and boards of disability services about
adopting a human rights-based approach.
Produced by National Disability Services, Australia, 2014
This video introduces some basic concepts of ethical decision-making
This video discusses the dynamic process of ethical decision-making. It promotes the need to become familiar with a range of models and techniques, and provides a ‘Four-way Test’ as a basic and practical approach ethical decision-making.
This asks: Is it the truth? Is it fair? Will it build goodwill and better relationships?
Will it be beneficial, achieving the right result?
Produced by The Student Success Coach.
Understanding ethical decision-making
is relevant to everyone involved in safeguarding.
Access to training
VisAble offers interactive training to help you develop a deeper understanding of these topics and why they’re important.
The training also enables you to explore how to apply the information at your place, with your staff (kaimahi) and in your services, to make a difference for disabled people.
We can also provide training for tāngata whaikaha Māori, disabled people, families, whānau and caregivers.
Find out more about our training and resources Or contact us at info@visable.co.nz.