Safeguarding Adults from Abuse

The provided project report focuses on safeguarding adults from different types of abuse, emphasizing its significance for the future of the country's economy. It outlines various strategies and procedures that healthcare organizations can implement to reduce risks, including sector guidance, recruitment of staff, selecting effective strategies, and procedures for protection. The report also highlights the importance of building effective relationships with clients and adopting working practices that help prevent abuse. Overall, it is essential for health and care providers to cater to the needs and wants of clients while reducing the risk of different types of abuse.

Safeguarding Adults and
Promoting Independence

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Forms of abuse experienced by adults..............................................................................1
P2 Indicators of abuse happening to adults............................................................................2
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................3
P3 Factors that lead abusive situations...................................................................................3
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................3
P4 Key legislation and regulations that govern safeguarding adult work..............................3
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................4
P5 Working strategies and procedure used in Health and Social Care to reduce risk............4
LO 5.................................................................................................................................................5
P6 Role of supportive relationship to reduce risk of abuse....................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
It is role and responsibility of the Health and Social Care (HSC) to work in such effective
manner so that they can serve and support the individual to reduce the risk of abuse. The report
is going to cover the different types of abuse and indicators for the happening of the abuse,
different abuse situations and strategies to reduce the risk of abuse by HSC.
LO 1
P1 Forms of abuse experienced by adults
It has been identified that there are different types of abuse that need to be handled by the
adult from the society, family, friends etc.
Physical:
It includes the activities which try to hurt the physical health of the child (White, Currie
and Lockett, 2014). There are several ways by which physical abuse can be conducted that are
abuse, hitting, slapping, punching, kicking, physical punishment, etc. With that, it also consists
of high rate of hurting such as forcible feeding, unauthorised restraints, etc.
Sexual:
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It is the way by which child is being abused by the adult or older person in order to use
child for the sexual stimulation. This can occur at several places such as home, school or work.
With that, child marriage is also one of the sexual abuse.
Emotional:
It is the way where adult emotions are being hurt by other people. Other than that, social
isolation is being enforced to the child such as preventing someone to access services,
educational and social opportunities as well.
P2 Indicators of abuse happening to adults
There are three types of indicators which state the abuse of child, that are as follows:
Physical abuse indicators: It is the type of indicator where injuries are being founded on the body
of adult Unexplained bruises, welts, cuts, abrasions, Unexplained burns and Unexplained
fractures or disclosures
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Psychological abuse indicators: It is the type of indicator where abuse is being founded from
the body language of the adult such as eyes which express fear, changes in appetite, tearfulness,
etc. These are the elements which have great impact over the health and social life of the child
(Glasby and Dickinson, 2014).
Domestic violence indicators: There are several ways by which domestic violence can be
reflected that are homelessness, unemployment, financial debt, no friends or family support,
isolation etc.
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P3 Factors that lead abusive situations
There are different situations which cause the abuse of the adult and then it hurts the
different aspects of the individual such as:
Environment: It is one of the factor which cause situation where adult is being abused. There
are different things that are included in the environment such as poor house or overcrowding.
Such as some individual need some space out of crowd, so when they live in crowded place,
abuse can be conducted (Whitmee, Haines and Horton, 2015). This is because these people live
on street so the abuser thinks that these people have no feeling so that they can be abused.
Physical disability: It is also one the biggest factor which can cause abuse to the child and adult.
The person who is not able to speak and hear can be abused by the people. This is because
abuser can take advantage of that person and the person will not able to say anything.
LO 3
P4 Key legislation and regulations that govern safeguarding adult work
There are different laws and act that have been conducted by the government in order protect the
child and adult from the different types of abuse, that are as follows:
 Rehabilitations of Offenders Act 1974: As per this act, all the employees of the HSC
need to enable different types of criminal convictions which need to be ignored after the
rehabilitations period. The key aim of this act is to make the long-term blot in their
records (Moule, 2015).
 Safeguarding Vulnerable Group Act 2007: This is the act which is being passed to
avoid and protect the harm to adult, reduce the risk of harm by preventing the people
from the different unsuitable work made by the child and adults.
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 Discrimination Act 1964: According to this act, government have stated that no
difference can be created between the people on the basis of race, sex, colour, ethnic
origin, etc. Other than that, NHS have stated that there would be no difference can be
created for the employment of different people (Vedder, Cuijpers and Ferrari, 2014).
 The Care Homes Regulations 2001: The act was made under the care standard of 2000.
It has stated that care services can be provided in the care homes where patient can feel
safe and comfortable in order to take the services.
 Equality Act 2010: In this act, NHS need to focus on the functioning in the environment
in an effective manner by developing the different people. With that, individual need to
serve the same rights so that effective working can be taken place.
 Human right Act 1993: In this law, NHS need to serve all rights that are existed in
parliament so that it helps to develop effective results at workplace. In this way, proper
communication will be placed in the environment to provide effective results (Moss,
2017).
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P5 Working strategies and procedure used in Health and Social Care to reduce risk
There are different types of strategies that can be implemented in order to reduce the risk
by the health and social care, that are as follows:
 Sector guidance: It is the way by which guidance is being provided to the HSC workers
so that they can protect the vulnerable adults. With these, the protection of vulnerable
adult’s scheme in England and Wales developed for adult placement scheme. Also, there
should be no secret departments in the HSC so that adults can be prevented from the
different abuse caused by the different people.
 Recruitment of staff: It is one of the important aspect which plays very significant role
in protecting adults from the different abuse. Heath and care providers are the people
who work on the different aspects of the ill people such as physical, mental, emotional
etc. So, they need to take care that adult can not be hurt or being abuse (Glasby and
Dickinson, 2014). In this regard, organisation need to select the best employees who can
put their maximum efforts in every work.
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 Selecting the effective Strategies: After doing these activities, find need to find the
different types of abuse that can take place and then implement the different strategies in
order to reduce the risk.
 Procedures for protection: In the first line defence, it is seen that referrals in the case of
suspected occurs at workplace. Therefore, problems need to be solved by the decision-
making procedures, assessment, recording, monitoring, complaint procedures, etc.
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P6 Role of supportive relationship to reduce risk of abuse
Build effective relationship: Relationship need to be developed so that employees can know the
needs and wants of the clients. This will help them to accomplish all the desired results in the
health care organisation. It has been identified that all the adults are taking services from the
health and care organisation, so they need to cater the needs of clients (Dickinson and O'Flynn,
2016).
Working practice: It also plays very significant role in preventing adults from the different
abuse. Heath and care providers need to adopt such practices which helps them in reducing the
risk such as assessment process and care planning cycle (White, Currie and Lockett, 2014).
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the project report that safeguarding adults from the different
types of abuse is very much significant. This is because adults are future of country and if they
are protected then they can develop the economy. It is role of health and care providers to
implement the different strategies in the organisation which helps them to cater the needs and
wants of the clients as well as reduce the risk of different types of abuse.
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