Codes Of Practice And Challenging Behaviour

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Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
The HCPC was set up in 2003 and is a statutory regulator of 308,000 health and care professionals from 16 professions in the UK. It's main purpose is to protect the public, maintaining the standards for the professions it regulates.

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This directly applies to challenging behaviour as an individual with a disability or learning difficulty that displays challenging behaviour is likely to have to come into contact or receive care from one of the 16 professions. Therefore, if all staff are registered and if the professions are being regulated, the individual is likely to receive a higher standard of care to help to calm and control their challenging behaviour. It is also helps to protect this individual.

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NHS Constitution
The NHS Constitution was created to protect the NHS, ensuring that it serves it's purpose by doing what it was set up to do, which is to provide high quality health care that is free and open for everybody.

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This applies to challenging behaviour as an individual that displays challenging behaviour may have a disability and will require NHS health care at some point in their life, maybe more often than others. It is important that this individual receives the correct health care and high quality health care in order for them to be able to control their challenging behaviour and be able to recognise it. Also, if this individual displays challenging behaviour and manages to harm another individual, this person may require immediate NHS health care. It is important that this health care is of a high standard too.

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Ofsted -
Ofsted was formed in 1984 and stands for The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills. Ofsted is the government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England and works to inspect and maintain the standard of education and care within schools, nurserys, childcare etc. Ofsted publish an annual report to parliament on the quality of education in England.

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This directly applies to challenging behaviour as it is important that an individual that displays challenging behaviour receives a high quality education and care within their school, nursery, child care etc. If this individual has a disability, it is important that their education and the provider of this education works to suit their needs and not allow any challenging behaviour to have a negative impact on their education. Ofsted should inspect the staff to ensure that the school employ staff that are trained and know how to deal with and handle challenging behaviour.

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Organisational policies and procedures concerned with behavioural management eg. Anti Harassment, Complaints Procedure and Training.
Anti Harassment - Anti harassment are policies that put rules into place to discipline and stop bullying or harassment within settings. The policies create consequences of harassment and bullying that individuals will face.
Complaints Procedure - Complaints Procedure is when an individual will complain about a service and will usually give reasons for this, this ensures quality and builds trust and respect with the service users. The service should listen and respond to the complaint in order to improve the service.
Training - Training works to ensure that staff are taught appropriate behaviours to use within the setting, helping them to keep up to date with qualifications and be an effective member of staff.

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Anti harassment - This directly applies to challenging behaviour as individuals that display challenging behaviour may bully or harass members of staff which could have negative effects on the wellbeing of the staff. ALTERNATIVELY, IT COULD BE THE STAFF THAT HARASS OR MISTREAT THE INDIVIDUAL WHICH COULD BUILD UP THEIR FRUSTRATION AND MAKE THEM FEEL AS IF THEIR RIGHTS ARENT RESPECTED, THIS COULD MAKE THEM DISPLAY THEIR CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR EVEN MORE AND MAKE THE SITUATION EVEN WORSE. It is important that the anti harassment policies are in place so that this behaviour has consequences.
Complaints Procedure - This directly applies to challenging behaviour as it may calm any challenging behaviour as the individual will have the right to complain about the service and it will give the service user control. Also, anybody receiving challenging behaviour from an individual within the setting will be able to complain about how the service deals with it.
Training - This directly applies to challenging behaviour as training will ensure that staff know how to appropriately deal with challenging behaviour and will be trained to spot signs of challenging behaviour and be able to communicate with an individual to calm these behaviours.