Safeguarding in Health and Social Care

Safeguarding in Health and
Social Care

TABLE OF CONTENTS
LO3..................................................................................................................................................3
3.1 Existing working practices and strategies design to reduce abuse in health and social care
context..........................................................................................................................................3
3.2 Effectiveness of working practices and strategies used to minimize abuse in health and
social care contexts......................................................................................................................4
3.3. Improvement to working practice and strategies to minimise abuse in health and social
care contexts................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

LO3
3.1 Existing working practices and strategies design to reduce abuse in health and social care
context
There are various existing practices such as effective communication oral and written.
This is the best practice in the context of social and health care. When social and health care
organization keeps open communication system within workplace that helps to resolve conflicts
crisis which takes place between health providers, senior authorities and service users. Effective
communication reduces abuse of service users and health provider. Oral and written
communication is an expected strategy to minimise abuse. According to the code of 13 standard
care and treatment must plan and provide in such manner that meets all individuals needs
effectively. In that state caregivers requires effective communication with service users or their
family effectively to understand that any abuse have taken place with service users. The
regulation 13 (4) safeguarding stated that there must be involved in police and procedures of
hospitals which helps to deliver best care and treatment with requirement detailed in plan and
report to the service users and their family about health-related information. The reason behind is
that according 13 (2) safeguarding rule caregivers must aware of their specific responsibilities
that will resist, determine as well report abuse when offering care and treatment. if service
providers keep information under covered that means servicer user can be face abuse. So, it
essential to practice effective communication within workplace. Anti-discriminatory practice is
another existing working practice that must implement within workplace. The reason behind is
that when health and social care organization implements such policy within workplace that
means no health professionals or service users will be discriminated within workplace (Hood and
et.al., 2017). According to CQI 13(4) safeguarding rule that health professionals must understand
their roles and responsibility to prevent discrimination with service users in term of age, gender,
sexual orientation, gender disability, pregnancy and others and practices anti-discrimination
policies in their action that will minimize abuse in the health and social contexts. Exiting
strategies are training session for protecting child from abuse and forms for abuse. Training
session helps health professionals to improve understanding in protecting child from abusing.
When heath professionals have high understanding of child abusing then they can take initiatives
to minimize abuse in the social and health contexts. While Abuse forum is another existing