Safeguarding and Abuse in Healthcare

This assignment delves into the critical topic of safeguarding within healthcare settings. It examines various forms of abuse and harmful practices that can occur, emphasizing the need for comprehensive strategies to mitigate these risks. The report analyzes current approaches and identifies areas for improvement in order to enhance patient safety and well-being. Additionally, it stresses the significance of implementing robust legislation to effectively address and prevent abuse within healthcare organizations.

SAFEGUARDING
IN HEALTH
AND
SOCIAL CARE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Why individual may be vulnerable to abuse....................................................................1
1.2 Risk factors associated with incidence abuse and harm...................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
3.1 Minimise abuse by working practices and strategies.......................................................3
3.2 Effectiveness of working policies....................................................................................4
3.3 Improvement suggestions with employees to minimise abuse.........................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
1.3 Impact on social or cultural factors on abuse on services users.......................................5
2.2 Professionals involvement in protecting vulnerable groups.............................................6
2.1 Strengths and weakness of current legislations................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Safeguarding is all about to save person's well being, health care, fundamental rights to
feel freedom and easily or freely survive at particular place or country. It is necessary to make
sure about the protection of people regarding health and social care. This can be done by various
kind of steps taken by by several organisations related top health and social care so that people
feel comfortably live there. This report is based on Hillcroft nursing home which deals in health
care services within homely interior that is ideal for adults. It s professional team specialise in
dementia care and strive for quality in all services. It will discussed about that factors contribute
to incidence of abuse or harm others and current legislations, policies and professional
involvement in this assignment (Braye, Orr and Preston-Shoot, 2011). It will also include
working practices and strategies to minimise negative things in heath and social care.
TASK 1
1.1 Why individual may be vulnerable to abuse
It is include that scandal was relevant to negligence of health care firm workers for
welfare of senior citizens to provide effective diagnosis. It has led in this condition in which
employees have to take care of themselves while working in an organisation. Generally, it is
observed that people who are adolescent phase of life are usually abuse and they need really care
of some elder people to get rid off this habit. It is important to prevent such kind of things by
making some of effective rules in Hillcroft nursing home. A undependable mature require the
extra care of due to old age, physical disability or some of critical sickness because these
individual's are not capable to take care of their own health. They have mental and physical
needs with proper attention.
Abuse:- This can be explained as to use those words towards someone which are not
appropriate and usually these phrases includes insult of specific person. This involves several
kind of abuses such as rape, physically or sexually assault, crimes and so on.
Harm:- This term is about the moral and legal concept which may considered as pain,
death, disability, loss of capability or freedom, lack of pleasure (Brown, 2011).
Damage:- It basically means to get spoiled anything by doing something negative which
impacts to damage it. It is all about to structures and other objects can take number of forms as
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fire damage caused by effects of burning, water spoil done by itself to materials not resistant to
its effect and radiation harm due to ionising it.
Some of people who generally abused which usually includes persons such as people
belongs to suffered from domestic violence, addicted group from drugs or alcohol and females
has profession of prostitution It is observed that, people do abuse due to undergone traumatic
pressure and vulnerable regarding many factors. It involves like learning or unable to respond
due to hearing loss, critical sickness and psychological health as well.
1.2 Risk factors associated with incidence abuse and harm
There are various kind of factors regarding abuses which cam build the victim to feel
guilty and afraid. Such types of factors are basically involves sensual, cerebral, communicative,
intersexual, accounting, decline or few another type of affection-al ill-usage (Gardner, 2014).
(Source: Safeguarding in Health and Social Care, 2012)
It is observed that uncertain elements connected with the incidence of ill-treatment and
self injury are widely categorized into few of categories. Those are single person such as
components, household elements and societal or state of affairs section.
 This type of uncertainty factors involve any types of disablement, biophysical or
intellectual upset, assertive action, temperaments and tending shortage (Grant and
Kinman, 2012).
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Illustration 1: Safeguarding in Health and
Social Care, 2012

 Family elements include abuse, involvement of wrong activity, aggression or day-to-day
fight, past of disregard, advanced house emphasis, poor attention amongst relatives,
detachment or separation, down self respect and use of somatic penalize.
 Gregarious or environment hazard components involve socio-economic disfavour, non
employed alienation, deficient lodging, condition, lack of admittance to help, favouritism
or bias and nerve-racking life events.
Generally, it is observed that may of elderly people are abused because they are depend
on others for self care. And the dependency as well as critical illness is the reason behing which
works as barrier to get rid off these abuses and take care any step against it. Some of cases
indicates about that people feel like they become enslaved by someone and unable to do anything
by their own convince (Harris and Leather, 2011). It is conduced that various hazard ingredient
track to contrary types of mistreatment and self injury. It is necessary to understand all this and
by doing so, these elements are pivotal to support occupational group operative justify such
maltreatment to such things to edge them. This will facilitate to render help to the victims to cope
up with these negative things happening with them.
TASK 2
3.1 Minimise abuse by working practices and strategies
It is well known that insult can have destructive affects on lives of citizens and
intensiveness of such effects depend on several factors like how victim has been abused or
association of them with abuser. And what kind of steps of friends and family to dismiss those
things. In order top this, survivors of mistreatment may consequence in challenging experiences
to hold up relations at individual as well as occupational advanced.
As care home manager, they have to make several policies by which they become able to
reduce the abuses and harm in the organisation. They can establish various penalties or
prescribed some more effective as well as efficient treatment for mental patients who generally
abused due to their psychological disorders. It is also necessary top implement certain rule or
regulations for staff members also to behave in appropriate manner. By this, they can reduce they
complaints of people regarding the improper response of workers in Hillcroft nursing home. As
per the given scenario of care home manager, it is necessary to observe several issues related to
abuse and try to put efficient legislations in company to avoid such thins in an organisation.
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Some of legislations or policies which can be implemented by Hillcroft nursing home to
minimise abuse is given below:
Child abuse and policy :- This can be described as rules and regulations to protect
basically children from several kinds of abuses effectively. Laws or policies are relevant to child
abuse or neglect can be utilised to minimise these issues.
Sexual Offences Act 2003 :- It includes several aspects in deliver prosecutions persons
who avoid sexual operation against those people who are mentally sick. It is necessary to avoid a
sexual activity between a care staff member and an individual with psychologically ill people.
There are different types of legislations, policies and practices which are essential to
follow by organisation such as Hillcroft to reduce abuse. It is necessary to implement mandatory
laws on companies to minimise abuse or neglect.
In case of youth worker, it is relevant to other several laws and can be clearly refers as
case of sexual harassment (Kline and Preston-Shoot, 2012). It is necessary to tackle these types
of circumstances like “Sexual Offences Act 2003”. This legal document is basically practical for
each person who is employed at different places and thus anyone may build utilisation of this
prospect of contract norms for their refuge and workplace. It is described as capability of that
rule to render benefits in such manner, it can be applied to anybody who is feeling blameable
even of unfortunate person is not in condition to render details of abusive situation. And
unsupportive of this rule is those aspects in which it is mentioned that no boundary line for stage
of involvement at that specific period of time to achieve curation. This is uncertain for
intellectual persons as these people are not able to realize the correct level of adjacent.
3.2 Effectiveness of working policies
There are several strategies and working practices which are necessary to implement for
providing proper services to people without generating any types of issues or problems. It is
important to establish strict rules in order to safeguarding adults. It is so because they are most
assailable to well being attention affiliated to ill treatment, it is mandatory to interpret present
pattern and scheme for decreasing the insult.
As care home manager, it is more essential to look after current rules or policies by which
staff members are working in Hillcroft nursing home. Many ow rules and legislation to prevent
services users and protect defenceless group from those who are not capable or eligible to
perform at aid region. It considered that to make sure flourishing execution of these sacred text
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and plan of action in respect to functions or duties of the professional activated. These rules vary
as per nature of providing services of different health care organisations (Payne, 2012). It is
basically depending on level of worker but most important element is that at several stages.
As youth worker, it is mandatory to observe those strategies and practices which are
already implemented to reduce the abuser, harm and damage by youngsters. They have to first
analyse its threats and reasons for its ineffectiveness. After that, it is compulsory to make more
efficient practices or policies to apply attaining better results.
3.3 Improvement suggestions with employees to minimise abuse
There are are various strategies are implemented to minimise the abuse of people for
maintaining healthy and peaceful environment. Along with them people having specific
situations an d their respective carers should have skills and abilities to make conversation
effectively. It is important for staff of organisation to solve the queries of people immediately
and in appropriate manner.
As care home manager, they have to conduct meetings of their employees to improve the
strategies and practices of organisation to reduce its issues. The Hillcroft nursing home have to
ask for suggestions to people also to design personalised care plans with long term conditions by
best knowledge and expertise. They can discuss their plans well with individual patients in
detailed information (Powell and Appleton, 2012). It should be incorporated formulation towards
the scheming of care events and firms must perform collectively and nearly to one another.
As youth worker, they have to evaluate the mind set-ups of youngsters regarding the
current policies and strategies along with those factors which reduced their effectiveness. These
elements which becomes barriers and decrease the impacts on people to reducing habits of
abusing should be studied. It is mandatory to take suggestions from experts regarding this
through asking the whole scenario.
TASK 3
1.3 Impact on social or cultural factors on abuse on services users
Violence and other forms of abuse commonly understood as pattern of behaviour
intended to establish and maintain over family, household members, intimate partners,
colleagues, individuals or groups (Taylor, 2011). There are various kind of abuses which should
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be considered by Hillcroft nursing home to identify their impacts on social or culture factors.
Some of them are given below:
KIND OF ABUSE DEFINITION
Physical It may occurs when someone uses part of their body or an
object to control person's actions.
Sexual This may occurs when an individual is forced to unwillingly
take part in sexual activity.
Emotional It refers to that when someone says or does a thing which
make person feel stupid or worthless.
Psychological It is described that when anybody use threats and causes fear
in an individual to gain control.
Spiritual It can be ex-plained as when anyone uses an individual's
spiritual beliefs to manipulate, dominate or control that person.
Cultural It occurs when anyone harm as result of practices that are part
of their own culture, religion or tradition.
Neglect It may observed when someone has responsibility to render
care or assistance for a single person but does not.
Impact of various kind of abuse on socio cultural factors and due to that environment of
the country become uncomfortable, people become insecure regarding their own culture, religion
and tradition. And also they did not spend their lives properly by which countries reduce their
strengths amongst the world.
2.2 Professionals involvement in protecting vulnerable groups
It refers to that concept of vulnerability has not been unequivocally interpreted either in
regional or in universal international legal instruments. It also explores the measures required to
protect their human rights. The legal people are involved like police, doctors and many others in
genuine cases. It includes the category which is primarily concerned with protection of
vulnerable and at risk individuals who have become victims of:
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It includes child abuse in situations like sexual exploitation, domestic violence, female
genital mutilation, forces marriage, honour-based violence, modern slavery, prostitution, serious
sexual offences, stalking and harassment (Zwijsen, Niemeijer and Hertogh, 2011).
This criteria also involves protection of vulnerable which encompasses security of those
with whom police come into contact in wider context. It can consider an example ensuring care
and welfare of such details in custody and dealing with individuals who suffer from mental ill
health. It is necessary for Hillcroft nursing home take care of all the above mentioned aspects to
work on them. Sometimes, it is observed that few of professionals are involved to save these
victims illegally in wrong manner. Then firms have to make sure about such people and
implement more effective legislations to reduce or get rid off such negative things.
2.1 Strengths and weakness of current legislations
There are various types of rules and laws which are implemented in Hillcroft nursing
home to carrying out several activities properly and reducing certain negative things. They have
different strong and negative points of the organisational aspects.
STRENGTHS WEAKNESS
This firm is providing high quality services by
reducing threats due to implemented
legislations. It attained satisfaction of people
by rendering beneficiaries.
It has unstable regulatory regime as they have
many threaten viability of local structure by
current rules. It includes economic recession
and cuts in social funds.
CONCLUSION
The above report had concluded that there are various kind of abuse harm and damaging
activities by anybody. It is indeed crucial to take essential actions to reduce the abuses. It is
important to analyse the current strategies and practice to determine issues. By this, improvement
should be make to decrease negative things in health care firm. They have to make several
strategies to apply the into organisation to improve services and reduce kind of abuses by
applying effective legislations.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Braye, S., Orr, D. and Preston-Shoot, M., 2011. Conceptualising and responding to self-neglect:
the challenges for adult safeguarding. The Journal of Adult Protection. 13(4). pp.182-
193.
Brown, K., 2011. ‘Vulnerability’: handle with care. Ethics and social welfare. 5(3). pp.313-321.
Gardner, A., 2014. Personalisation in social work. Learning Matters.
Grant, L. and Kinman, G., 2012. Enhancing wellbeing in social work students: Building
resilience in the next generation. Social Work Education. 31(5). pp.605-621.
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Harris, B. and Leather, P., 2011. Levels and consequences of exposure to service user violence:
Evidence from a sample of UK social care staff. British Journal of Social Work. 42(5).
pp.851-869.
Kline, R. and Preston-Shoot, M., 2012. Professional accountability in social care and health:
challenging unacceptable practice and its management. Learning Matters.
Payne, M., 2012. Citizenship social work with older people. Policy Press.
Powell, C. and Appleton, J.V., 2012. Children and young people’s missed health care
appointments: reconceptualising ‘Did Not Attend’to ‘Was Not Brought’–a review of the
evidence for practice. Journal of Research in Nursing. 17(2). pp.181-192.
Taylor, B. ed., 2011. Working with aggression and resistance in social work. Sage.
Zwijsen, S. A., Niemeijer, A. R. and Hertogh, C. M., 2011. Ethics of using assistive technology
in the care for community-dwelling elderly people: An overview of the literature. Aging
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