Dahrendorf's The Adult Support And Protection (2005)

The main issues of public concern are centred on the abuse and neglect of vulnerable adults - whether they are elderly, people with disabilities, those suffering from dementia or other mental health problems.

The main current legislation guidelines policies and procedures within own UK home nation for safeguarding children and young people.

Section 47 of the Act places a duty upon local authorities to investigate such situations whereby 'there is reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering or likely to suffer harm'.

Multi-agency working reduces the risk of abuse to adults by using legal frameworks, one of the most effective legal frameworks used when multiagency working is A national framework of standards for good practice and outcomes in adult protection work 2005, this framework reduces abuse when multi-agency working as it focuses on patients who are unable to protect themselves from harm, this framework aims to:

Must be able to identify and record possible signs of abuse or neglect as soon as possible

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

The Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 as amended by The Regulations of Care Act 2001

Under the Care Act 2014, three specific criteria must be met for adult safeguarding duties to apply; the adult must have care and support needs and be experiencing, or at risk of, abuse or neglect and is unable to protect themselves because of their care and support needs.

In relation to safeguarding adults there will be specific components that must be abided to. A risk assessment is set out to assess the risks to vulnerable people against their rights to make their own decisions on how to live their lives. Vulnerability is a term held with complexity as there are many reasons as to why Vulnerability can occur, and its effects can either be long or short term depending on the social context of the individual’s life. The factors that left Colin open to vulnerability where down to him losing his job through redundancy and in turn losing his home and ending up jobless and homeless these factors can be seen as quite significant in the demise of Colin’s mental state which lead him to becoming more susceptible to risk and abuse. The broad definition of a vulnerable adult is “A person who is or maybe in need of community care services by reason of mental or other disability, age or illness and who is or may be unable to take care of him or herself against significant harm or exploitation”(Department Of Health,

There are a number of legislations which address the needs of young people leaving care with provisions that are in place to help them through life transitions. The Children and Young Persons Act 2008 focuses on older young people and those who are leaving care. Providing the necessary legislative support to improve the care system in England. Ensuring that stability and continuity in every aspect of a child's care. This act proposed to reform the statutory framework for the care system involving children and young people as much as possible regarding decision making, giving them a voice so that they are heard. Resulting in the improvement of care standards.

Are all laws put into place to help protect an individual from abuse whilst ensuring they can still for fill their right and maintain a sense of individuality. If the person is in care the organisation will have policy’s and procedures in place to risk asses and ensure the protection of the carers, organisation and the individual from danger, harm and abuse.

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Section 3 is entitled ‘A personalised Adult Social Care System’ and in subsection 3.3 it discusses ‘Systems which act on and minimise the risk of abuse and neglect of vulnerable adults, supported by a network of “champions”, including volunteers and professionals, promoting dignity in local care services.’. This is yet more important policy and guidance which focuses on policy developments in relation to the Safeguarding of vulnerable adults. Although at City Care Partnership we haven’t adopted the system of champions, it’s something that could be given future consideration as we look to improve our own systems. We do have something similar in the form of an organisational Safeguarding lead however, a

With the intention of integrated care, ‘The Better Care Fund’ (DOH, 2014b) united health and social care budgets yet, left ‘unringfenced’, health services have been prioritised at the expense of Adult Social Care. Consequently, substantial funding gaps has forced financial constraints across the board within the Social Care Sector (The King’s Fund, 2015). In turn, this protocol creates a reverse economic effect as, denied of essential support, those most in need potentially require additional support to counteract the impact of increased risk and harm, and deteriorating wellbeing. This essay discusses how the duties and powers of Care Act 2014 keep people with care and support needs safer and better protected from harm and abuse by others, as well as addresses the factors which

Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf was born in Hamburg, Germany, on May 1, 1929. He was a German-born British academic and politician who served as the first foreign director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Karl Marx greatly influence on his work. A desire strongly motivated him to develop a viable alternative to structural-functionalism. Dahrendorf see two basic sides to society – consensus and conflict - and believe that both are needed. Dahrendorf offers a very sociological view of authority, arguing that it resides not in individuals but in positions and in various associations of people. In his view, those associations are controlled by a hierarchy of authority positions and the people who occupy them. However, there are many such associations in any society. Thus, a person may be in authority in one type of association but be subordinate in many others. Ralf Dahrendorf conducted his social conflict research through qualitative method. His work deals primarily to macro-level types of analysis that focuses on society. The work that he has done are all involves studies done in natural settings that produce in-depth descriptive information about the social world.