Safeguarding In Health And Social Care Essay

Policies and procedures are guidelines instructing service providers to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, and have a responsibility for safe guarding. A set of policies are guidelines formulated by an organization to reach its long-term goals, which according to the multi-risk agency team is to protect and prevent adult’s from abuse and neglect. Establishing multi-agency safeguarding, sharing information amongst the allocated healthcare professionals suited to a case, in a multi-disciplinary meeting, to identify signs of abuse and provide justice to victims who confide in the multi-risk agency team. This meeting consists of a range of professional opinions, and the patient’s intel on the situation and their conclusion, the patient

is welcome to bring a family member or a friend along for moral support. If they suffer from any sensory disability they have access to a translator, or an advocate. The Health and Social Care Act 2012 sets out specific regulations for the health system and its relationship with care and support services. It gives a duty to the NHS, clinical commissioning groups and health and wellbeing boards.
The care quality commission have very strict rules, such as everyone should be treated with dignity and respect, equality and not be denied of human rights.

Furthermore, they have introduced a human rights approach, which is to respect diversity, promote equality help to ensure that everyone using health and social care services receives safe and good quality care. Human rights approach will help to apply the principle of promoting equality. The CQC have a process in which you answer five key questions to consistently integrate human rights into the way they regulate, which healthcare providers must work alongside. They also have equality objectives which were introduced in 2017, the objectives are, person-centred care and equality, accessible information and communication, equal access to pathways of care and to continue to improve equality of opportunity for our staff and those seeking to join CQC, as well as patients. Also filling in a safeguarding adults review, which is a process for all partner agencies to identify the lessons that can be learned from complex or serious safeguarding adult’s cases, where an adult in vulnerable circumstances has died or been seriously injured because of abuse or neglect. At winterbourne view residential home, abuse and neglect had been made clear to the public eye and could clearly be identified, although no staff logged it as a safe guarding adult

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There are laws that impose penalties for people who fail to report cases of suspected abuse and neglect as discarding it goes against, duty of care. Residents suffered from psychological abuse, physical abuse and neglect by staff workers who were aware of regulations to follow under the profession as a health care assistant, yet went against policies and procedures. In result of this the care act was ignored as staff did not lead a multi-agency local adult safe guarding system, they did not work to prevent abuse but were the ones to inflict it, also other colleague’s that witnessed the abuse didn’t report the issue therefore did nothing to prevent vulnerable patients, which makes them feel as if they have no sense of security, this also goes against the care act regarding policies and procedures. Some carer’s did report the abuse to Castle beck’s governors but the complaint was not admitted forwards and no action was taken, this goes against making enquiries or requesting others to make them as the board did not investigate the issue or suspend the workers until the investigation was over to protect patients wellbeing. There were no establishing adult boards, Castle Beck did not share or implement a joint safeguarding strategy. Commissioners of services for people who have autism or learning disabilities can demonstrate weak or challenging commissioning behaviour, which furthermore means they need cared for regarding specific measures such as observation, noticing how a person is behaving and investigating whether it is an emotional surface, and focusing on all aspects of the patient’s behaviour to carry out their needs. Also social perception, being aware of a person’s feelings, needs and intentions, these factors can be shown through facial expressions, and tone of voice as well as what has been said.

Agencies
Many agencies work together to ensure that vulnerable adults and children are protected from abuse and neglect.
Social services are a government service provided for the benefit of the community, through funds such as the NHS medical care. They are regulated by the care quality commission to ensure that any complaints made regarding satisfactory work ethic are dealt with and investigated, to in the future improve certain aspects and roles that were not producing a good enough standard of care. Potential action that can be taken ranges from leading a multi-disciplinary meeting, involving academic disciplines or professional specializations in an approach to a topic or problem. Also leading local a multi-agency adult safe-guarding system, seeking to prevent abuse and neglect. Making enquiries, or request others to make them, when they think an adult with care and support needs may be at risk of abuse or neglect and they need to find out what action needs to be taken to support them in all aspects. Represented on safeguarding adult’s boards, supporting the implementation of the safeguarding aspects of the Care Act 2014 aiming to inform Safeguarding Adults Boards of what is required of them under the Care Act and to help them improve their effectiveness. Assuring that local safeguarding arrangements are in place as defined by the Care Act 2014 and guidance, assuring that safeguarding practice is person-centred and outcome-focused. They are regulated by the care quality commission to investigate complaints and the standard of work being performed. This includes actions such as, providing advocates for patients who need someone else to seek on their behalf due to communication barriers. Am advocate is more suitable than a family member, as a professional will base everything around the patients care needs and best interests whereas family will overpower decisions with their personal preferences.
Throughout health services the ambulance service has developed a system for recognising ‘cluster calls’, emergency calls to ambulance services are frequent for older people who have fallen, methods and analysis randomly allocated 25 participating ambulance stations (clusters) in three services to intervention or control group. Potential action that should be taken by health care services are staff in all front-line health and social care services should be trained in the identification of indicators of abuse, this way we can avoid any incidents similar to Iris Teale who died in hospital 16 days after suffering a fractured thigh bone at Aston Court Nursing Home in 2011, due to Care staff not using a hoist to move the patient. If staff were trained to specifically be able to identify early stages of abuse, then they could reduce the long term risks and bring the abuser to justice before the victim suffered from worse impacts. To do this health and social care services should take courses about the recognition of abuse, or the elder abuse prevention training programme as part of staff training. Regarding the Iris Teale case, if other staff members were able to point out the proper way in which she should have been moved, they could have corrected the staff who were supervising her. Even though it wasn’t abuse health services should have the necessary skills to suit the role of a job, therefore a carer should know how to lift a patient without causing discomfort
Voluntary organizations check and balances include the disclosure.

Making patient information a secret, understanding the prospect of confidentiality, and respecting the patient’s privacy and dignity. Also barring services. Eligibility and the same details as a standard check, together with any information held locally by Police forces that it is reasonably considered might be relevant to the post applied for to avoid cases such as, the Ian Hunt case. Which led to the introduction of DBS applications in 2012 merging with the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) to become the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Potential action includes, becoming an offence for those convicted of particular crimes to work with vulnerable people. Circumstances in which an employer may not legally recruit a person with a certain type of offending history, is where the offending history has led to the individual being barred from regulated activity with either children or adults or both. If you are recruiting for a role that is defined as regulated activity with children or adults, it is your responsibility to check the barred status of your employees and you may not employ a person who has been barred from working with the relevant group. The organisation must report barred applicants who are trying to gain access to venerable

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The care quality commission's checks and balances are fundamental standards. The independent regulator of all health and social care services in England. The Care Quality Commission monitors, inspects and regulates hospitals, care homes, GP surgeries, dental practices and other care services to make sure they meet fundamental standards of quality and safety and publishes what it finds, so that information is open to the public eye. They have a specific regulation on safeguarding people from abuse and neglect. Providers must have procedures and processes to prevent people from being abused by staff or other people they may have contact with when using the service, including visitors. Abuse and improper treatment includes care or treatment that is degrading for people and care or treatment that significantly disregards their needs.