Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection from abuse and neglect
Watch ‘Safeguarding Adults – law and legislation Part One 2020’ produced by Emagination Training and make notes on the laws and legislation to refer back to.
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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