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Care Certificate Standard 7: Privacy and dignity

This standard focuses on respecting people as individuals by protecting their privacy, preserving dignity and supporting them in ways that avoid embarrassment, shame or loss of control.

What This Standard Covers

Maintaining privacy in personal care, conversations and records.

Promoting dignity through language, behaviour and everyday practice.

Supporting people to make choices about how care is delivered.

Why It Matters

Standard 7 turns values into day-to-day behaviour. It helps staff understand how small actions, attitudes and routines affect a person’s sense of identity, comfort and respect.

Official Source

This page is a plain-English summary based on the March 2025 Skills for Care Care Certificate standards. For the full learning outcomes and assessment criteria, use the official PDF.

Read the official 2025 standard PDF

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Standard 1: Understand your role Standard 2: Your personal development Standard 3: Duty of care Standard 4: Equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights Standard 5: Work in a person-centred way Standard 6: Communication Standard 7: Privacy and dignity Standard 8: Fluids and nutrition Standard 9: Awareness of mental health and dementia Standard 10: Adult safeguarding Standard 11: Safeguarding children Standard 12: Basic life support Standard 13: Health and safety Standard 14: Handling information Standard 15: Infection prevention and control Standard 16: Awareness of learning disability and autism