Critically explore the roles of legislation and professional practice in preventing and protecting vulnerable individuals and groups from abuse and harm
Safeguarding in the health and social care context is very important in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of users of the service. Care providers have the duty of care to their users to promote diversity, person centred care, and independence. Abuse could happen in the adult and social care. It could either be a deliberate action or over complacency in the part of carers. This is why safeguarding has become necessary as a regulatory body to safeguard the interest of the vulnerable groups from abuse. It aims at eradicating abuse from the services. This essay will attempt to educate its audience
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Abuse could be physical, mental or emotional form. There are some vulnerable groups in the health and social care context who are likely to be abuse because of their condition. The condition could be mental or physical abilities, age, and other forms disabilities which hinders them from going about their daily routines. a group of people in our settings who have certain physical or biological disabilities would be slow to react to incidence of abuse hence their vulnerability. For example, a service user with a neurological condition which requires special needs would be a high risk of abuse (Penhale & Parker, 2007). A vulnerable adult or child could be a victim of abuse from their own family by being …show more content…
Risk is the possibility of injuries or accidents occurring in your settings. Every individual health and social care settings has its own hazards which poses a potential risk. Risk assessment must be use to evaluate and minimise the risk if they are inseparable from the person centred care of the user. The risk factors in the care setting could have psychological, social, financial and physical instabilities.
Psychological abuse results in mental instabilities which could cause one to self-harm and also put others in harm’s way. a service user who have experience neglect may suffer from loneliness thus he will feel rejection. This will result in mental or psychological abuse from anxiety. Anxiety disorder causes one to self-harm and become a danger to others as well.
Social risk refers to where the service user is exposed to aggression or deviant behaviours. Addictive habits could lead to serious abuse which could lead to serious health conditions to the person.
A study by the department of health (2015) have revealed that 1800 adult death were attributed to the reduction in the number of care homes for homeless people. Injury levels also rose by 20% while fractures were 6% for the same
It is imperative that Health Care Professionals learn to manage risk. There are many factors to think about including environment, assessment, identification and prioritising when managing risk. Being able to strategically implement preventative measures will help in managing risk. Risk management works hand in hand with all enablers set out by chapelhow.
the victim of such abuse. "It can cause Psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, and
Safeguarding may be described as ‘protecting people’s health, wellbeing and human rights, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect.’ (Care Quality Commission, c2018) Safeguarding is relevant to service users because it ensures that they will receive essential and effective treatment by having their needs valued. Safeguarding ‘recognises that an individual’s unique needs, preferences and views must be the focus of all care and support that is planned for and provided.’ (Peteiro et al, 2017: pg. 44) For service users, this means that their personal needs will be prioritised within a health or social care setting and their views and opinions- about their health- will be genuinely considered resulting in them receiving treatment that will be best beneficial for them. Moreover, safeguarding intends to protect service users from harm, neglect, and abuse whenever they are in a health and social care setting. This may be done by making sure all services are accessible to those with disabilities, perhaps individuals who are wheelchair bound, or by making sure all long-term or overnight patients receive the appropriate amount of
The actuarial approach is now been favoured to use for risk assessment.There is a push now towards evidenced-based practice as a more reliable means of risk assessment which has led to the development of risk assessment tools (Turner and Tummy 2008).Evidence-based practice is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients (Antonio Borghesi and Barbara Gaudenzi 2012). Risk assessment tools are a great way in which you can produce a document which a based on statistical probability. They aim to produce or estimate a risk from collected data and they attempt to predict a person risk based on that person's future behaviours when tasks in different situations (Kirby 2004).
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
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
IV. PROVISIONALLY ACCOMMODATED (homeless but in hospitals, prison or interim housing) – 4,464”[End Homelessness in America 2012 Website, 2012].This is a large subculture filled with underprivileged people. Many of these 30,000 individuals are left unsheltered and unaided every day. “Recent data from a March 2013 Ipsos Reid poll suggests that as many as 1.3 million Canadians have experienced homelessness or extremely insecure housing at some point during the past five years.”[End Homelessness in America 2012 Website, 2012]. In addition to this government policies have often benefited the few but complicated problems for others. Low income housing is often torn down to build up higher income housing and these low income individuals are left shelterless.
This is because it aimed to help provide better protection for vulnerable adults. One of the ways it aimed to do this is by creating a multiagency framework which required everyone in health and social care settings to start working together so that the risk of abuse or neglect is reduced e.g. by sharing information. This guidance also helped to identify those who are most at risk of abuse and the reasons for this higher risk. This guidance helped to reduce the risk of abuse as it helps to ensure that all the different agencies are working together, and no information or signs of abuse or neglect is missed. This means that we can avoid situations like the Rotherham abuse where there is a lack of communicate and nothing is doesn’t to help the person being abused, leading to disastrous consequences. It also to identify those who may be at risk. This is good at it helps to ensure that vulnerable people who are at risk of being abused, are being identified and support is put in place to reduce this risk of abuse. The no secrets guidance was reviewed in 2008 and a national consultation exercise was put in place to found limitations of the guidance. This lead to a report from this exercise being published. However, the government has not responded to be review. [5]
The procedure of protecting clients, patients and colleagues from harm. The benefits of following a person centred approach in the use of health and social care practice. Ethical dilemmas and conflicts that may arise when providing care. Supporting and protection to users of health and social care practice. The implementation of policies, legislation regulation and code of practice which is relevant to own work in health and social care. How local policies and procedures can develop in accordance with national and policy requirements. The impact of policy, legislation, regulation, and code of practice on organisational policy and
UCD and HSE (2012) 'Older People's Experiences of Mistreatment and Abuse' [online], available: http://www.ncpop.ie/userfiles/file/ncpop%20reports/Older%20People's%20Experience%20of%20Mistreatment%20and%20Abuse%20Final%20Version.pdf [accessed 24 April 2014].
There are several different types of abuse and each type affects people differently. There is child abuse and spousal abuse, but there is also physical and mental abuse. This paper will go over each type of abuse, how the abuse affects the person, how people can recover from abuse, and just some general information.
The National Alliance to End Homelessness identified under 600,000 people who are homeless in the nation, in the past year. “This translates to a national rate of homelessness of fewer than 18 homeless persons out of every 10,000 persons in the general public on a single night “(National Alliance,
According to Krieger and Higgins (2011), due to absence of housing, overcrowding in a shelter and sleeping rough leads the homeless to get respiratory, skin, and infectious diseases (3). Also these diseases are easily spreading to the society because the homeless sleep on the street and there is not enough support that they could access. The solution is to help the homeless by providing them with adequate housing and health care so it would not influence the public health. As a result, it boosts public health which would be beneficial not just for the homeless, but for the government, medical professionals and especially the community. For example, due to increases of action to end homelessness and awareness about standard housing in America, the number of communicable disease has declined rapidly.
There are two types of abuse. Google’s definitions of abuse is the cruel, violent treatment of someone or something, or the improper use of something. There’s always a result after one has been abused. Abuse is either done physically and/or emotionally. To me, abuse is overusing something in a wrong way or treating someone or something horribly.
Child abuse has been defined as, any intentional act that results in physical or emotional harm to a child. This could cover any behavior from assault, to neglect, to molestation. (Encarta 1) In 1995, a study was done by the National Center on Child Abuse & Neglect. They concluded that in the United States alone, approximately 3 million children are victims of some sort of maltreatment each year. This means that an unimaginable amount of our county’s adolescents are being seriously mistreated, and the numbers are rising steadily. While the specific definition of child abuse may differ from state to state, the effects unfortunately do not. Physical maltreatment, neglect and sexual abuse create immediate problems for children, as well as long term damage. Some common effects on sufferers of abuse include, a lowered sense of self worth, an inability to relate to others, short attention span and often they develop learning disorders. More detrimental cases can develop severe depression or anxiety, schizophrenia, violent behavior and an increased risk of suicide. (Encarta 3) In some cases, abused children learn how to cope with their experiences and grow to healthy adults, but most are not that lucky. Most victims of abuse are forced to deal with the results for their entire lives.