Ethics
Preparing for a service assessment
As part of a service assessment, you’ll be expected to show how you’ve considered ethics. Learn what to do before and during the assessment.Before your assessment
Your team should:
- Read and consider the ethical principles.
- Do an ethics review.
- Define any actions based on your ethics review.
- Complete actions, or make a plan to tackle them in the next phase.
If an ethics review is not appropriate
If your team has read the ethics guidance and decided an ethics review would not be appropriate, you must show what else you’ve done to consider ethics in your service.
During your assessment
As part of the service assessment, you’ll be asked one or both of the following questions:
- How have you made sure that people will not be harmed by your service?
- What have you done to ensure that your service is ethical?
Depending on the output of your ethics review, your team can say one of the following:
- there were no actions from the review
- you’ve already addressed any actions
- you’ve not yet addressed the actions, but plan to