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Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice

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‘Safeguarding adults’ from NHS England

Read all of the section ‘Your Responsibilities’ to find more about the ‘Duty of Care’ and the 6 safeguarding principles enshrined within the Care Act 2014 including the categories of abuse.

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Read through this ‘UNISON duty of care handbook’ from the public service union for guidance on how best to question and challenge unsafe practice in health and social care settings.
‘New duty for health and social care professionals and teachers to report female genital mutilation (FGM) to the police’ by the UK Home Office. Click on the icon to the left to read about what you are required by law to do when there is a ‘known’ case of FGM in a girl aged under 18.
This section of the Social Care Institute for Excellence’s website is about ‘Safeguarding adults: Sharing information’. This guide is part of a range of products to support implementation of the adult safeguarding aspects of the Care Act 2014. Sharing the right information, at the right time, with the right people, is fundamental to good practice in safeguarding adults but has been highlighted as a difficult area of practice. This includes information about preventing abuse and neglect and the duty of candour

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