Cultural safety and awareness frameworks in health and social care: Whose cultural safety?

<p>This chapter is about cultural safety and awareness frameworks and approaches for First Peoples in health and social care contexts. Various theories and models are discussed, along with their implications for practice. The key messages from this chapter are that competency in cultural safety and awareness requires a continuous process of education, leadership, and accountability, at both organisational and interpersonal levels. It is important that health practitioners, workers, and administrators are open to and recognise their settler and other positioning, unconscious bias, and racist behaviours in order to demonstrate sustainable and meaningful cultural safety for their First Peoples patients, health service consumers and colleagues.</p>