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Unit 7: The Principles of Privacy and Dignity in Adult Social Care Settings
Person-Centred Care & End of LifeLevel 2

Unit 7: The Principles of Privacy and Dignity in Adult Social Care Settings

This unit explores the principles of privacy, dignity, choice, and active participation in adult social care settings. Learners will develop an understanding of how to protect individuals’ rights, identity, and wellbeing through person-centred approaches. The unit covers maintaining privacy and dignity in practice, handling confidential information safely, and recognising situations where these may be compromised. It also focuses on supporting individuals to make informed choices, use risk assessment to enable decision-making, challenge decisions, and actively participate in their own care. Learners will reflect on how personal values and attitudes can influence practice and develop skills to ensure care remains respectful, inclusive, and led by the individual.

4 hours 30 minutes
Created by Sophie Barber Updated 11/2026 English
Part of Level 2 Adult Social Care Certificate · Course 7 of 15

Available only in Level 2 Adult Social Care Certificate

This course isn't sold on its own. You get it, with every other course in the pathway, when you enrol on the pathway.

£1400.00, was £1500.0015 courses
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What you'll learn

Outline what is meant by privacy and diginity.
Describe situations where an individual’s privacy and dignity could be compromised.
Outline different ways to maintain privacy and dignity of individuals in your care and support.
Demonstrate that your actions promote and maintain the privacy and dignity of individuals.

Course content

24 modules

What privacy and dignity mean in care, and why they are legal and ethical duties, not simply good manners.
Situations during care and daily life where a person's privacy and dignity can be compromised, and the effect on them.
Practical ways to maintain privacy and dignity during personal care, conversations, record keeping and daily routines.
Written assessment on privacy and dignity, situations where they may be compromised and the effect this has on individuals.
How to show through your actions that you promote and maintain privacy and dignity in every part of a person's care.
Why personal information a person wants kept private must not be shared, unless they agree or the law or safeguarding requires it.
Written assessment on maintaining privacy, dignity and confidentiality, protecting personal information and responding to poor practice.
Strategies that help people make informed choices, from clear information and time to think to accessible formats.
How risk assessment can support a person's right to make their own decisions instead of simply stopping them doing things.
Why your own values and beliefs must not influence the choices of people you support, and how to keep them out of decisions.
When and how to support a person to question or challenge decisions made about them, including through advocacy.
Written assessment on supporting informed choices through risk assessment, professional boundaries and person-centred approaches.
How to support a person in practice to understand all sides of a decision so they can make an informed choice.
How to use risk assessment to enable choice, independence and control while keeping people safe.
How to recognise and set aside your personal views so they do not shape a person's choices or decisions.
Written assessment on supporting informed decisions and independence, managing risk and keeping your own views out of people's choices.
How valuing each person as an individual leads to active participation in their own care, routines and relationships.
How to enable people to make informed choices about their lives by giving information, options and time in ways they understand.
A range of practical ways to support active participation in daily life, care tasks, hobbies and community activities.
Why independence and a person's network of relationships and community connections matter, and how to help maintain them.
Written assessment on active participation and how involvement in decisions, activities and community life promotes independence and wellbeing.
How to support active participation in practice, so people take part in their own care rather than having things done to them.
How your personal views, assumptions or routines can limit a person's active participation, and how to avoid this.
Written assessment on encouraging active participation in care and recognising how personal views can affect it.

Specialist

Sophie Barber

A qualified teacher, examiner and content creator, Sophie has over 10 years experience developing resources for examination boards to ensure that they are using effective learning tools. An ex-medic, Sophie has a huge passion for the healthcare profession and the importance of delivering quality care.

Training you can trust

How this course works. You will work through self-paced modules, check your understanding with knowledge checks, and finish with a short assessment. On passing, your CPD-certified certificate is available to download immediately, ready for your CQC evidence file or employer records.

This certificate does not expire.

Accredited by CPD

All of our courses are accredited by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to universally accepted Continuing Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

Frequently asked questions

There is no deadline: a one-off purchase gives you lifetime access to the course, including updates, so you can complete it at your own pace across shifts.
Yes. Every course is accredited by the CPD Certification Service, and the certificate states the course, the level and the date you passed.
Yes. It works on phone, tablet and computer, and your progress syncs between them.
Your certificate is generated the moment you pass the final assessment, ready to download or print.