Values and business ethics

 ‘PRAXIS WITH PRINCIPLES’  

The identity of this business is values driven –underpinned by a strong set of ethics, morals and values.  The aim of the business run by Dr Hilary Dyer is to serve the needs of children and young people with Special Educational Needs. Hilary does this by providing assessments and reports for parents and others to use as expert evidence. Hilary conducts the affairs of this business and practises Educational Psychology in accordance with the following principles:  

1. I act with diligence, professional and personal integrity and concerns toward my clients, their children, and members of staff of organisations with whom my work brings me into contact.
2. I continue to work as a reflective practitioner, taking time to examine what I do, how I do it, and why I do it.
3. This business operates for the purposes of securing social justice for families of children with SEN in seeking to ensure that such children receive access to the services from Education, Health and Social Services that they require to meet their SEN 
4. I will make every effort to ensure that my clients receive the services they need from me which I am professionally qualified to offer them
5. My business not only operates as a profitable entity, but also furthers and contributes to my spiritual goals in what I do and the way I do it.
6. This business aims to make a small but measurable positive and proactive difference in society and within families with children with SEN
7. I nurture and value my work-life balance which fits within the parameters of operating a sustainable business and ensuring that my clients’ needs are met. This means that I am able to offer a flexible, and ‘out of hours’ service to clients who need to contact me during evenings and weekends
8. I aim to operate my business in such a way that my behaviour towards, and treatment of, clients and situations evidences a concern for:
   
   -valuing and respecting others
   -encouraging and nurturing a culture of high trust
   -where appropriate, giving people the benefit of the doubt
9. I work to do whatever it takes to provide my services to my clients, but this is not at all costs – to myself, to clients, and third parties.
10. I work in a thoughtful, caring, ethical and morally acceptable way at all times. My professional and personal integrity, including straight-forwardness, honesty and openness are drivers to my actions, and are hallmarks of my work.
11. I work in a strategic, yet non-confrontational, way to secure the desired outcomes for parents and children.
12. Should I make a mistake or be careless in my thoughts, words or deeds, I seek immediately to apologize, and to put things right without need for a ‘complaints procedure’.
13. I never unlawfully discriminate on the grounds of age, race, colour, ethnic or national origins, gender, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, or any other ground on which people may be treated less favourably than others.

 Dr. Hilary Dyer FRSA November 2010