Work Practices and Strategies to Minimize Abuse in Health and Social Care

UNDERSTANDING WORKING PRACTICE AND
STRATEGIES USED TO MINIMISE ABUSE IN HEALTH
AND SOCIAL CARE CONTEXTS (3.1-3.3)
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LECTURER: Dr. Susan Marchant-Haycox
SAFEGUARDING IN HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE

To understand, evaluate and discuss:
• Objective 3.1 to 3.3
• Existing working practices and strategies designed to
minimise abuse and their effectiveness, and how they
can be improved

Work Practices Designed to Minimize
Abuse in Health and Social Care Contexts
• Communication occurring between agencies
who are involved in protecting children and
vulnerable individuals from abuse
• Communication must occurs between
doctors, social services and hospital staffs
(Featherstone, Morris and White 2014)

Other Work Practices
• Other work practices and strategies include
• Working in partnership with different professionals:
It helps to maximize the advantages with various
skills and resources
• Working with partnership also helps in sharing of
the information with the healthcare professionals,
carers and other stakeholder
(Action For Children 2016)