With respect to adults, key aspects of legislation include similar standards of protection to vulnerable adults. . The Department of health define vulnerable adult as a person who: may be in need of community care services by reason of mental or other disability, age or illness; and who is or may be unable to care of him or herself, or unable to protect him or herself against significant harm or exploitation(DOH,2000,pp 8-9). Three concepts that underpin safeguarding are protection, justice, and empowerment. (Minister of states 2010) Safeguarding Vulnerable adult is everyone’s business.
If that person is also an adult at risk they must receive support and their needs must be addressed. • Staff will understand their role and responsibilities in regard to this policy and procedures. • Every effort should be made to ensure that adults at risk are afforded appropriate protection under the law. • Organisations will have their own internal operational procedures which relate to these multi-agency Safeguarding Adults policy and procedures, including complaints, and in respect of support to staff who raise concerns (‘whistleblowing’) to comply with the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. • Organisations will ensure that all staff and volunteers are familiar with policies relating to Safeguarding Adults, know how to recognise abuse and how to report and respond to it.
* Identification of local and organisational systems for safeguarding and the roles of different agencies and professionals that are involved in safeguarding individuals. * Sources of Advice, Support and Information to help you understand your roles in safeguarding. Definition of abuse and types of abuse. The term ‘adult abuse’ is subject to wide interpretation and definition. “Abuse is a violation of an individual’s human and civil rights by any other person or persons.” A number of factors need to be considered in detail: “Abuse may consist of a single act or repeated acts.
Be able to manage inter-agency, joint or integrated working in order to protect vulnerable adults Candidate Name: Michelle Wingrove Date: 13/05/2015 Unit: 514 Hours of Completion: Understand the legislation, regulations and polices that underpins the protection of vulnerable adults The Human Rights Act 1998 which gives legal force to ensure respect for human rights and high standards of practice by public bodies. The Care Standards Act 2014 and subsequent regulations placed a requirement on care providers to create procedures to protect people in their care from abuse or harm. The Mental Capacity Act 2005 makes it an offence to mistreat or willfully neglect people thought to lack mental capacity, and the Mental Health Act 2007 contains a similar offence. Since the introduction of the new Care Act 2014 in April of this year (2015) there have been new measures in relation to the protection and the safeguarding of vulnerable adults. In relation to safeguarding, the Care Bill will do the following: • Make safeguarding adults boards statutory; • Make safeguarding enquiries a corporate duty for councils; • Make serious case reviews mandatory when certain triggering situations have occurred and the parties believe that safeguarding failures have had a part to play; • Place duties to co-operate over the supply of information on relevant agencies; • Place a duty on councils to fund advocacy for assessment and safeguarding for people who do not have anyone else to speak up for them; • Abolish, on human rights grounds, councils’ power to remove people from unsanitary conditions under section 47 of the National Assistance Act; • Re-enact existing duties to protect people’s property when in residential care or hospital; • Place a duty on providers surrounding failings in hospital and care settings.
WORK BOOK- (HSC 24) (HSC 24)-Principles of Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social Care.Unit aim:This unit introduces the important area of safeguarding individuals from abuse. It identifies different types of abuse and the signs and symptoms that might indicate abuse is occurring. It considers when individuals might be particularly vulnerable to abuse and what a learner must do if abuse is suspected or allegedCredit value-3Level 2This workbook covers the following elements:Learning outcomes:There are five learning outcomes to this unit-1. Know how to recognise signs of abuse.2. Know how to respond to suspected or alleged abuse.3.
This means an unintended or unexpected incident which results in moderate harm, severe harm, prolonged psychological harm or death, where death relates directly to the incident. Providers of Adult Social Care are required to use the existing CQC notifiable requirement “for serious injuries” (under regulation 18 of the Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2009) to identify when a disclosure under the Duty of Candour is required. How are CQC likely to enforce the duty of candour requirement? CQC will look at the duty in the context of the “well-led” key question but also the “safety” key question (“Are lessons learned and improvements made when things go wrong?”) The guidance for Healthcare picks out specific and helpful guidance from the Being Open Framework (2009) in terms of how organisations can become compliant. This includes the need to obtain board level commitment, creating a culture of safety and ensuing that staff are appropriately trained in the duty.
The Youth Justice Board, one of the major bodies involved in working with youth offenders, state that they are “working to prevent offending and reoffending by children and young people under the age of 18” (Justice, 2012). So for the purpose of this essay, ‘youth offending’ will be used to refer to the criminal behaviours of those people under the age of eighteen. Risk factors are used to predict a likelihood of a young person offending and therefore identifying opportunities for intervention. In order to successfully do this, all aspects of a young person’s life can be examined for potential risk factors. For this reason, risk factors often fall into one of several key
Safeguarding involves empowerment, protection and justice... In practice the term “safeguarding” is used to mean both specialist services where harm or abuse has, or is suspected to have, occurred and other activity designed to promote the wellbeing and safeguard the rights of adults.’ (Improvement and Development Agency & Centre for Public Scrutiny, 2010). It may be necessary to contact the Social Service or Police. 5.2.3 Identify ways to ensure that evidence of abuse is preserved: I
• When abuse is reported, Essex County Council and its partner agencies for example, Essex Police, NHS and the voluntary services will take joint action to ensure vulnerable people are safeguarded from further abuse, and their risks are managed appropriately. A vulnerable adult is any person aged 18 or over who: This booklet will cover: • What makes a person vulnerable • What is meant by abuse • Who abuses people, and where it takes place • What you can do if you are worried that somebody is being abused • The steps you can take to protect yourself from harm • What happens when we are informed that someone has been abused. 1. is or maybe in need of a community care service by reason of mental, physical or learning disability, age or illness. And who 2. is, or maybe, unable to take care of him or herself or unable to protect him or herself against significant harm or serious exploitation. They may include: • People with a mental health problem or mental illness ( including dementia ) • People with a physical disability • People with a sensory impairment • People with a learning disability • People who are frail and/or experiencing a temporary illness What is abuse?
Analyse the differences between the concept of safeguarding and the concept of protection in relation to vulnerable adults Safeguarding is everybody’s responsibility, and includes measures to prevent or minimise the potential for abuse occurring. It means CSW’s and all people involved with the service user use a person centred approach keeping the individual safe and to promote their welfare. Protection is considered a statutory responsibility in response to individual cases where risk of harm has been identified. Protection is a central part of safeguarding and promoting welfare. It is the process of protecting an individual identified as either suffering or at risk of suffering significant harm as a result of abuse or neglect.