S.L. 582.2 Art. 3Interpretation. Cap. 582.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Challenging behaviour" means behaviour exhibited by residents that is triggered by intrinsic or extrinsic factors and has the potential to cause physical or psychological harm to the residents themselves or other persons around them;

"Civil rights" means rights conferred on persons by the laws of Malta;

"Competent person" means a person who is recognised as capable and/or authorised to undertake specific activities in line with applicable national legislation, standards or directives issued by the applicable authorities;

"Holistic assessment" means the process in which staff identifies the needs and aspirations of the residents in relation to their health, personal, emotional, spiritual and psychological care, protection and social networking, family support and what services should be delivered to satisfy these needs and aspirations;

"Management" means a person or persons who act on behalf of the service provider to provide leadership to staff and to oversee and control the proper functioning of the services offered to persons with disability;

"Performance indicator" means an active descriptor of what service providers need to do to ensure service outputs that support the quality indicators;

"Personal support plan" means a document that is based on a holistic assessment of the resident that specifies how the resident’s needs and aspirations are going to be met and also includes the resources required by the resident whilst living in the residence;

"Person with disability" means a person who has prolonged physical, mental, intellectual or sensory problems that when these relate with various obstacles can interfere from fully and effectively participating in society on equal basis as others, as defined in Article 1 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;

"Policies and procedures" means documents released by management that regulate how the residence should operate;

"Prospective resident" means a person with disability aged eighteen (18) or over who is considering whether to enter into an agreement with a service provider to live in the residence and make use of services offered by the service provider;

"Residence" means a premises that has been purposely built, or adapted to accommodate persons with disability on a long term basis;

"Resident" means a person with disability aged eighteen

(18) or over who enters into an agreement with a service provider to live in and make use of services offered by the residence. Residents may nominate person/s to be kept informed about the residents’ personal affairs and take decisions or act on the residents’ behalf. With the exception of resident personal financial transactions, such persons cannot be part of the management or staff of the service provider;

"SCSA" means Social Care Standards Authority as established by virtue of article 5 of the Social Care Standards Authority Act;

"Service Provider" means a person who, or organisation that provides and operates a residence and associated services to persons with disability on a long term basis;

"Staff" means a person engaged by the service provider wherein one of the person’s responsibilities is to provide resident support or care, irrespective of whether or how the person is compensated;

"Quality Indicator" means a statement that sets out the requirements to achieve compliance with a standard. SCHEDULE (Regulation 2)

Standard 1: Residents’ Rights

Standard Statement:

This standard promotes rights that assure dignity and respect whilst preventing discrimination.

Quality Indicators :