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D1: Describe what is meant by: • Safeguarding: This means protecting individual’s health, well-being, and human rights, this enables them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. It's essential that older individuals, such as adults need safeguarding too, due to their ability to protect themselves from harm. • Protection: This is for any individual aged 18 or over who needs Community Care Services because of mental or other disability, age or illness.

Adult safeguarding was defined as, a range of activity aimed at upholding an adult’s fundamental right to be safe at the same time as respecting people’s rights to make choices. Safeguarding involves empowerment, protection and justice. In practice the term “safeguarding” is used to mean both specialist services where harm or abuse has, or is suspected to have, occurred and other activity designed to promote the wellbeing and safeguard the rights of adults. Following the Civil Service rapid evidence assessment methodology1, having formulated the questions to be addressed by the review and developed a conceptual framework, inclusions and exclusion criteria were agreed. Articles published in 2002 or later, relevant to the review questions were included. Studies were excluded if they were not relevant, for example: health focused, concerned with children rather than adults. A wide range of databases, web-sites and grey literature were searched and screened, using search terms related to adult safeguarding, adult protection and workforce, staff and training. Experts in the field were also asked to identify relevant resources and guidance. Results Overall, much of the evidence on workforce and adult safeguarding is based on a limited number of studies and cases. Much of the work reviewed was of little specific relevance to the social care workforce. Most

A significant element of a practitioner’s role in protecting themselves would be to read policies and procedures that are put in place to safeguard them and children or young people in their care. In a care setting a professional can protect themselves by:

Safeguarding is a fundamental part of our every day activities with children and young people in the most basic of things from

Safeguarding is a much broader range of how practitioners working with children and young people should act when dealing with child protection issues. By safeguarding as practitioners we are protecting children and young people from maltreatment, preventing harm to their health and development, making sure children grow up in circumstances accordant with the provisions of safety and care and to act to make sure children and young people have the best possible outcomes in life.

Safeguarding vulnerable group act 2006 is an Act that protects vulnerable people from abuse. Legislation policies and procedures for safeguarding groups have made health and social care staff much more aware of what is regarded as abuse and how to identify that abuse may have occurred. This rule helps to know what to do and how to do it if you suspect any kind of maltreatment or abuse or if an individual tells you that they are being abused. (Stretch, Whitehouse, health and social care level 3 books 1 P105).

This assignment will discuss “Amie’s case study” and will explore some of the risks that she is exposed too and how they can have effect on her welfare. I will start by defining what is child safeguarding centred on the legislation framework of the Children Act 2004. I will also look on what is abuse and naming types of abuse, and establish the knowledge and understanding of Assessment Framework in Amie’s case. I will also look at multi-professional strategies that can provide help and protect Amie and her siblings according to legal legislation.

7. With regard to child protection there is examples of adult’s behaviour which may indicate child abuse and neglect.

safeguarding, who a vulnerable adult is, different types of abuse, who may abuse, factors and

family circumstances. When looking at the parents/carers of children, the health of those in charge

1.1 Analyse the differences between the concept of safeguarding and the concept of protection in relation to vulnerable adults

Prior to the course I had basic understanding of safeguarding. As a support worker delivering care to the vulnerable, With brief and little knowledge on legislation; prevention, policy and procedures; personal ethics also dictated to me as a reasonable caregiver the need to care for vulnerable adults assigned to me and keep them safe from harm.

Neglect- It is the failure to provide necessities which includes food, clothing, shelter, medical care or a safe environment.

Those who are in an authoritative position over someone and in a position of care for example, family members, friends or professional health workers (such as a carer, staff member in a residential or nursing home or hospital), can put vulnerable people at risk of abuse. Because of the

Child abuse is a very big problem in the community there are a lot of different types of child abuse like the obvious ones like sexual and physical abuse to the not so obvious ones but just as bad for children like emotional abuse and neglect. In this essay we will discuss the different types of abuse how to recognize it and ways to prevent abuse.