Safeguarding Case Study

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This assignment looks at the importance of safeguarding and how practitioners and agencies should be involved to help prevent any risks when dealing with a vulnerable adult. The case study is about a 22 year old vulnerable adult called Andrew who has been diagnosed with autism. According to (Autism.org.uk, 2017) Autism is a complex developmental disability that usually affects children during early childhood. It is a condition that can affect communication, behavior, social interactions and how people experience and interact in the general word around them.
According to Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) vulnerable adults are much more likely to be abused or neglected compared to others. This is usually because they are less likely …show more content…

Medicent.net (2017) defines self-neglect with the inability to attend to one’s personal needs or hygiene. This could manifest in a number of ways such as not attending to one’s clothing, nutrition, hygiene and also being unable to act appropriately to care for medical needs and conditions. Andrew has a difficult relationship with his family and cut off all contact with them a couple of years ago. He is completely dependent on the professionals that surround him as he has isolated himself from anybody that has ever been close to him so perhaps he is feeling the effects of emotional abuse. It also implies that Andrew is a victim of physical abuse as well as cyber bullying. He has frequently attended Accident & Emergency on a number of occasion following recent assaults and is known face to the local police following a number of incidents in which he was physically threatened. He is now receiving threatening messages on Facebook which as a result is making him scared to go out of the …show more content…

Every person that comes into contact with either children or adults in their everyday work has a duty to safeguard and raise concerns if abuse is suspected. According to Stretch & Whitehouse, (2010) there is a six stage process for safeguarding vulnerable adults if there is evidence of suspected or actual abuse; alert, referral, decision making, assessment, review & monitoring and recording. During this process there are of number of potential actions to take. Approaches to communication are essential when dealing with a vulnerable adult. If a service user chooses to disclose an allegation of abuse its essential to listen carefully to all details, show signs that you are interested, make notes of everything that was discussed, report the incident to the nominated safeguarding officer as soon as possible and most importantly praise the service user for choosing to disclose as it takes a great deal of courage to speak up. There are also a number of actions to avoid. You should never make a promise to keep a secret regarding abuse, you must ensure that the service user knows that any action that you take is to support them. Never ask any leading questions that could potentially jeopardize the litigation, try to avoid putting yourself in a position for

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