What Legislation and regulatory requirements that impact on service delivery in health care?

Answer 1

Legislative frameworks
Legislative frameworks relevant to community workers include those that:

regulate the registration or accreditation of community workers regulate the conduct and behaviour of community workers deal with civil or criminal liability of community workers regulate dealings between community workers and clients.
Some generally relevant legislation sets broad standards for professionals. These statutes tend to apply to all professionals broadly and do not attempt to limit the definition of professionals in anyway. These statutes do however provide some exemptions and exclusions for community workers.

Examples include the Associations Incorporation Act (which sets out a range of important considerations for organisations and their members, as opposed to their employees or staff), the Community Services Act and the Civil Liability Act which apply to a range of community workers including social workers, community welfare workers and others.

In a number of areas of community work specific legislation needs to be considered. The areas include:

community health child care and protection disability services family relationships.