Principles of Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social Care Settings

The 2nd Joint Chief Inspectors Report defined safeguarding children and young people as the act of taking reasonable measures to ensure that the threats of harm to children & young people’s welfare are diminished by all those who work with children. The document expressed that all agencies involve with the provision of services to children and young people should take appropriate actions to raise and address issues of concerns whilst working to agreed local policies and procedures established by Local Safeguarding Children Board, and in partnership with other local agencies to safeguard a child or young person. (CQC

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Adult safeguarding was defined as, a range of activity aimed at upholding an adult’s fundamental right to be safe at the same time as respecting people’s rights to make choices. 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. Following the Civil Service rapid evidence assessment methodology1, having formulated the questions to be addressed by the review and developed a conceptual framework, inclusions and exclusion criteria were agreed. Articles published in 2002 or later, relevant to the review questions were included. Studies were excluded if they were not relevant, for example: health focused, concerned with children rather than adults. A wide range of databases, web-sites and grey literature were searched and screened, using search terms related to adult safeguarding, adult protection and workforce, staff and training. Experts in the field were also asked to identify relevant resources and guidance. Results Overall, much of the evidence on workforce and adult safeguarding is based on a limited number of studies and cases. Much of the work reviewed was of little specific relevance to the social care workforce. Most

The safeguarding and welfare requirement contains cases of adults’ behaviour which covers the cyphers of abuse and neglect. It is essential that if staff becomes conscious of any such signs, they should respond suitably in order to protect children. Regular staff meeting should be help and staff trainings should also cover recognising adult behaviour. All childcare settings must implement a safeguarding policy and other procedures, which should be in agreement with the regulation of the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board. The safeguarding policies and procedures must cover the use of mobile phones and cameras in the setting, according to the revised EYFS.

Child protection procedures should be linked with the Local Safeguarding Children Board’s procedures/All Wales Child Protection Procedures. The procedures and system should include a named person and deputy clearly defined with their role and responsibilities in relation to child protection. At my setting this is Jane the manager. A description of what child abuse is, how to respond to it where there are concerns about a child’s safety or welfare or concerns about who looks after the child at pre-school/ home. Children Act 1989 identifies the responsibilities of parents/professionals who must work to ensure the safety of the child. The Education Act 2002 sets out the responsibilities of Local Education Authorities (LEAs), to ensure that children are safe and free from harm.

The care act 2014 sets out rules and responsibility for the care and support that happens between health and local authorities. Safeguarding adults means protecting someone’s rights to live in safety, free from abuse, neglect and harm. The care act requires that an enquiry must be establish if there is any risk of abuse and neglect and harm and if any action should need to be taken to stop any abuse or harm, and set up a safeguarding adult board in every local area. The care act 2014 sets clear legal rules for how local authorities and the health and care system should be protecting adult who are at risk of abuse and neglect. There have never been clear set rules laid out for safeguarding till now but authorities always tried to take care of

‘Safeguarding means protecting people’s health, wellbeing and human rights, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. It is fundamental to creating high-quality health and social care’ (CQC, 2014a).

Systems – Local authority Adult Services Dept (Social Services) – Safeguarding Team investigate and ensure safety Care Quality Commission – Inspect care providers Police to investigate/ prosecute Carers Direct Helpline

Safeguarding policies are put in place for all staff working with children to be aware of the signs and symptoms of abuse and how to follow the correct procedures. According to the safeguarding policy

There are numerous national policies and local systems that relate to safeguarding and to protect against abuse, Safeguarding vulnerable adults Act 2006 was set up to protect adult's right to live in safety and free from abuse and neglect which replaced the Residential Home Act 1984 and the Residential Home amendment act 1991. The Care Standards Act 2000 has set up new structure of national minimum standards for services and has created a main consistency structure for social care. This is to guarantee high standards of care and to improve the protection of vulnerable people. The application of the act led to the creation of the independent National Care Standards Commission ( NCSC). The independent safeguarding authority {ISA} the role of

Professionals working in health and social services, educational establishments, and those working for the police and the probation services are bound by statutory law such as Working Together to Safeguard Children 2013 (replacing previous 2010 Act). The statutory includes all nature and impact of child abuse and neglect, procedures to best protect a child, the different roles, processes and responsibilities of all agencies and practitioners involved. It also provided the appropriate action to be taken to safeguard and to promote wellbeing and welfare of children at risk of a possibility significant harm. The 2013 Act sets out important principles to be followed when working with children and their families. Among the other aspect of the act

Safeguarding vulnerable group act 2006 is an Act that protects vulnerable people from abuse. Legislation policies and procedures for safeguarding groups have made health and social care staff much more aware of what is regarded as abuse and how to identify that abuse may have occurred. This rule helps to know what to do and how to do it if you suspect any kind of maltreatment or abuse or if an individual tells you that they are being abused. (Stretch, Whitehouse, health and social care level 3 books 1 P105).

Department of Health has defined personalisation as “individual receiving support by statutory services or funded so, that they will allow individual to have choice and power over to shape the kind of support they require, or get the right help in health and social care settings. Community Care, (2008) Forexample, to have access in public transport, leisure, and housing you are disabled and showing respect and dignity of individual. Personalisation looks on the individual perception that their care needs are met, either it can be as a direct payment and personal budgets as; Community Care, (2008).

The Home provides services based on the local needs assessment to meet the needs of residents needing safeguarding. There are clear local arrangements between safeguarding services and Home. In this way, staff can work in direct cooperation with specialist, in supporting our residents, going through the process of safeguarding. Working with others, can help me to fulfil better my task, which can be more difficult to do in my own, benefiting of their expertise and experience. Other professionals can help us to understand the implication of harm and abuse. We know that the implication and impact of harm and abuse for residents can be devastating, and can have major long-term effects in all aspects of their wellbeing, health and development. They

In our home where possible we involve residents in the procedures and system of safeguarding. Families and friends are involved also to help protect vulnerable residents through supporting them to make decisions that affect their life, provide them with information about abuse and protection. Residents are given the information of how to protect themselves from abuse, also knowwhat the risks are, what precautions could be in place to prevent abuse happening, what to do and who to tell if abuse occurs. There is a house meeting with all the resident and person in charge, once a month. There they are able to raise any concerns. Vulnerable adults who fall under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and are deemed unable to make a decision for themselves,