Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection from abuse and neglect

Find and read your organisation’s policies and procedures on safeguarding and protection from abuse and neglect
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Safeguarding adults: the role of health service practitioners’ by the Department of Health
- ‘Care and support statutory guidance’ by the Department of Health
- ‘Regulation 13: Safeguarding service users from abuse and improper treatment’ from the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
- ‘Factsheet 7: Protecting adults from abuse or neglect’ on the Gov UK website
- ‘The Care Act: safeguarding adults’ from the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
- ‘Mental Capacity Act 2005 at a glance’ from the SCIE
- ‘Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS)’ from the SCIE
- ‘Report a concern if you are a member of staff’ from the CQC
- Find and read your organisation’s policies and procedures on safeguarding and protection from abuse and neglect
- Find and read the resources on your local authority’s Safeguarding Adults Board.
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- This section of the Social Care Institute for Excellence’s website gives and ‘Introduction to safeguarding adults’.
- Channel is a multi-agency approach to safeguarding, supporting and protecting children, young people and vulnerable adults at risk of radicalisation, extremism or terrorist related activity.
- Click to read ‘Care Act guidance on safeguarding must be clearer to ensure victims are protected’ on the Community Care website.
- The Community Care website contains an article ‘Council’s Care Act and human rights failings left woman malnourished and degraded, says watchdog’.
- ‘Whistleblowing: improving organisational practice’ is a film from the SCIE to encourage organisations to create a safe environment for staff to raise concerns openly as part of normal day-to-day practice.
- Think And Challenge
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