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Report on Winterbourne View Hospital

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Report on Winterbourne View Hospital

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11.1 Give an explanation of why vulnerable groups may be vulnerable to abuse and/or harm toself and other..........................................................................................................................11.2 Review the risk factors which may lead to incidence of abuse and/or harm to self andothers......................................................................................................................................3There are various risk involved in vulnerable individual which can harm self as well as others.................................................................................................................................................3CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTIONSafeguarding refers to protecting individual's health, well being and their human rights,provide a safe environment to live free from harm. It involves identifying people who arevulnerable, determine their needs and work with various government and private organizations inorder to protect them from external environment. Vulnerable people are those who are not able tomake decision, physically and mentally disable to protect their own interests (Peckover, 2014).As per the given case study Winterbourne Veiw hospital which is public funded managed byCare Quality Commission. A television broadcast exposed the physical and psychological abusesuffered by people at the hospital. A senior staff of this care home also reported its concern to thehigher authorities of national regulator and management of Winterbourne (Humphreys andBradbury‐Jones, 2015). TASK 11.1 Give an explanation of why vulnerable groups may be vulnerable to abuse and/or harm toself and otherEach and every human being has right to live safe, secure, free from abuse in the society.Abuse is related to the violation of human rights by another person. Such kind of neglect can beoccur anywhere at home, hospital, public place or any other places (Ash, 2010). There aredifferent types of abuse as given below:Physical abuse: This is most visible type of abuse where an individual can physical hurtor harm to another person such as hit, slapped, pushed. In the context of Winterbourne casestudy, staff of home care give humiliating violence with their patients. For example, they areusing cold punishment or other violent activities force to their patients if they denied for foodand water. It can also include misuse their medical treatment which can negative impact on theirhealth. Psychological abuse: This another form of abuse where a person emotionally neglect orthreatening to another person. It includes humiliating, harassing, controlling, blaming and verbalabuse. It is also known as emotional abuse which occurs in cycle (Stirling and Kerr, 2014). Suchkind of abuses can occur before physical, sexual, discriminatory or other neglect. For example,according to the case study nurses treated them like that they are socially isolated throughunfairly withdrawal their support and services. 1
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