In your role you should always promote the individual’s wellbeing.
It is important that everybody (e.g. professionals, family members, carers and key individuals) work in partnership to stop abuse and neglect wherever possible. This includes preventing harm and reducing the risk of abuse or neglect to adults with care and support needs.
Wellbeing revolves around the following factors:
Your role is to work with individuals in a way that safeguards them from abuse and neglect but still supports their right to make choices and have control about how they want to live. Providing them with the knowledge and understanding of how to stay safe can give people the confidence to raise any concerns they may have.
It is important that you know ways of working to safeguard adults in your workplace.
Your policies and procedures support you to meet the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) regulations and the Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers and Adult Social Care Workers in England.
Click HERE if you would like to see the full document on the Skills for Care website.
There are six principles that apply to all sectors and settings.
The six principles are referenced in “Care and Support Statutory Guidance” issued under the Care Act 2014 by the Department of Health. The sectors they apply to include:
- -Care and Support Services
- -Further Education Colleges
- -Commissioning
- -Regulation and Provision of Health and Care Services
- -Social Work
- -Healthcare
- -Welfare Benefits
- -Housing
- -Wider Local Authority Functions
- -The Criminal Justice System
- -Underpins all Adults Safeguarding work
The six principles are:
Empowerment
People being supported and encouraged to make their own decisions and informed consent.
Prevention
It is better to take action before harm occurs.
Proportionality
The least intrusive response appropriate to the risk presented.
Protection
Support and representation for those in greatest need.
Partnership
Local solutions through services working with their communities. Communities have a part to play in preventing, detecting and reporting neglect and abuse.
Accountability
Accountability and transparency in delivering safeguarding.
-It is your responsibility to safeguard the individuals who you provide a service to.
-You must never assume that somebody else will recognise and report what you have seen or heard.
-If you do have any concerns you need to raise these through the correct procedure.
-Raising concerns is called ‘whistleblowing’. This is covered in more detail later on in this course.
-Abuse can result in serious physical and mental problems, and in some cases it can result in death.
You will be committing abuse if:
you fail to act to prevent harm being caused to a person you have responsibility for or, you act in a way that results in harm to a person who legitimately relies you.
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