Safeguarding in Practice

This document discusses the concept of safeguarding in healthcare, focusing on the intervention, relevant legislation, and care intervention for individuals at risk. It emphasizes the importance of safeguarding in providing proper care and support to vulnerable individuals. The case of an elderly lady, Doris, is used as an example to illustrate the application of safeguarding practices.

Safeguarding in practice
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Describe the safeguarding intervention ......................................................................................3
Justify the reason for using safeguarding intervention on the basis of relevant legislation,
guidance and evidence ...............................................................................................................5
Apply the safeguarding intervention to the scenario on the basis of relevant literature for
discussing how you would use care intervention with this person at risk. ...............................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Safeguarding is a medical concept associated with taking care of patients. This is defined
as practise used by people for determining welfare of an individual. There are several medical
practices used while treating individuals. Safeguarding is involved with managing the individuals
who are not able to take care of their own (Brammer and Pritchard-Jones, 2019). There are
various kind of practices within health care practitioners and carers such as advocacy, positive
risk taking, making safeguarding personal and adult family group conferences. There are several
legal regulations and policies provided for managing this type of treatment and care. In the
following project, there is discussion about a 89 years old lady, Doris who is living alone and
managing her work. It is seen that she is unable to remember things and once she had claimed
her carer for taking money out of purse. This scenario required legal considerations and there is
evaluation of medical carer. Some of the safeguarding practices or interventions can be used by
medical care providers to enhance their way of treating Doris. All the guidance of regulations
must be followed.
Describe the safeguarding intervention
Main objective of adult safeguarding policy is to improve the arrangements of
safeguarding for old aged people who are at risk. These have risk from exploitation, abuse and
neglect (Braye, and Preston-Shoot, 2017). There is need to neglect the objective of prevalence of
harm. In context of present scenario, safeguarding is needed for adult people as they face more
problems related to memory loss and health issues. They need extra care and support for living a
good life (Helsper and et.al, 2020). One way to provide safeguarding includes keeping a
caretaker. In the present scenario , safeguarding intervention is needed for Doris who is a 83
years old lady living alone. She was having problem of arthritis and there was difficulty in
accomplishing some activities of household. Her daughter, Jenny decided to hire a carer for her
so that she will not have problem in managing the work she has to do in whole day. Carer will
also take care of her medication and health. The safeguarding intervention involved in this case
includes Adult family group conferences and making safeguarding personal. In case of Doris and
her carer, Precious these two safeguarding principles are mentioned below -
Adult family group conferences
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Doris is an old lady who has to live alone and manage work by her own. By considering
the present scenario, it is seen that family group conference can be organised for Jenny and
Doris. By the use of these conferences, it is easy to make Jenny understand that Doris needs
more care and attention at this time. It is not good to shout at her old mother out of frustration
because she is forgetting things (Jane, 2020). Family group conferences includes bringing of
immediate and extended family, professionals or friends who are involved in considering
concern related to the adult within family. In case of Doris, there is wide potential to use family
group conference for managing the situation. Safeguarding is used by adults for managing the
work and reaching a good conclusion. Safeguarding is a referral and a spectrum that consists
discussion about deliberate health issue faced by Doris. Some of the problems faced by both
Doris and Jenny are discussed in order to manage safe treatment of Doris.
The key principle of FGC is to empower vulnerable person so that they can participate within the
process and can express their viewpoints effectively (Chater, 2020). Family members knows
Doris and her situation has to be managed for strengthening and supporting Doris. There is need
of achieving good outcome for Doris so that she will be able to live her life effectively. Family
group conferences are organised between Doris and her daughter Jenny so that it is easy to
understand the problem and solve it. These conference people provide help to support family and
take care of adult individual. There are several conference meetings organised for Doris in which
they can understand different ways to meet needs and demands of health carer as well as Doris.
Making safeguarding personal
It is known as one of the essential safeguarding technique that can be used for managing
the situation of Doris. Some legal regulations are provided by health care and support statutory
which have an objective of safeguarding adults. The making safeguarding personal is an
initiative which develops an outcome. Main aim of responses is to support individuals and
resolve the problem (Manthorpe, and Martineau, 2017). This is a framework preprepared for
informing teams, practitioners, councils, etc. for managing the problem faced by Doris. This is
an individual focused process used for engaging people and providing them knowledge about
managing the whole scenario of Doris. For developing safeguarding personal, there are few steps
which have to be followed. These include the following -
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Evidence strong leadership of making safeguarding personal – A strong leadership is needed for
taking care of Doris while treating her. Carer has to develop leadership and helped Doris to
manage health and life.
Promote and model culture shift – There are several training, policies and strategies which are
used for managing partnership of patient and carer (Britten and et.al, 2020). This provides help
for the creation of safeguarding personal. There must be presence of transparency and
consistency of values and culture.
Define core principles for practice and strategy – It is duty of health care professional to ensure
that all principles are classified effectively. It is taken care that proper care plan is prepared for
helping Doris (Martineau, and Manthorpe, 2020). Health care practitioners are empowers the
way in which Doris is provided treatment.
Justify the reason for using safeguarding intervention on the basis of relevant legislation,
guidance and evidence
Safeguarding interventions are used for managing the activities carefully for treating
people. Some of the regulations and legal rules are followed by the health practitioners for
managing the service provided to adults like Ms. Doris. There are many individuals who are
staying alone in their houses. They do not have anybody who can provide support and care. For
conducting their household work, they need to depend on others. It is concluded from the case
that Doris is very old and she is not able to remember things for long. This created problem for
her in conduction of various daily life activities. Her daughter, Jenny has consulted a medical
carer, Precious for her. He will help her in doing various daily life activities. In this way, Doris
can lead a good life and be healthy. There are several legal legislations involved in the medical
carer or professional. Some of these are mentioned below -
Safeguarding adults – Department of health, NHS Confederation, 2013 has provided a
guidance for all medical practitioners to provide them clarity about roles and responsibilities.
This is a guidance which provides knowledge about roles and responsibilities of key agencies of
adult safeguarding (Morgan, 2019). Major objective of this guidance is to ensure that medical
carers are providing right service to people.
Information sharing guidance for practitioners and managers – According to this guidance,
it is clear that there is need to have good practise for the medical professionals and carers to have
clarity regarding information of adult people (Holloway. and Pimlott‐Wilson, 2020). According
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to this guidance, it is clear that information shared between Doris and Precious, the carer is
confidential. It is responsibility of carer to keep information of Doris confidential and secure.
They do not have legal right to share any of the information with others without the patient's
consent.
Prevention in safeguarding – According to the social care institute, there is guidance which
outlines various methods for preventing abuse and exploitation of adults. It is ensured that all
adults who are treated and served by medical carers are safe and secure. There are several ways
of increasing awareness regarding individuals to recognise, address and report the misbehave or
abuse. Miss. Doris told that Precious, her carer stole from her purse. This was not true as she has
problem of dementia and because of this she was not able to recognise her medical carer and
blamed him of taking money from purse (Saleh, 2020).
Making safeguarding personal – According to the local government association, 2015, there
are various guidance and toolkit for making safeguarding personal. Several models, approaches
and theories are used by the medical carer while treating adult patients (Romeo, 2017). There is a
practitioner guide where it has to be managed that all resources are utilised for managing
resources.
Apply the safeguarding intervention to the scenario on the basis of relevant literature for
discussing how you would use care intervention with this person at risk.
The care intervention is used for providing help to Doris and managing her work. There
are several patients and adults like Doris who are been taken care of. This is ensured that family
and caregivers are very helpful as they provide the best help to patient,. They can easily
understand emotional problem that the person is facing. At the age of adulthood, people require
more attention and care. Thus, for doing so, there is need for Jerry to understand condition of
Doris and select best option for her mother's care. She thought keeping a medical carer was
enough to help her mother (Thacker, Anka, and Penhale, 2019). But this is not a good concept.
She has to personally help her mother and support her by taking to her and giving her time. It
will help to manage the whole scenario. Family caregiver is more helpful for a person to get
support and proper care. Dementia is a big problem and at this age, people generally have
problem of forgetting things. There are several local authorities and partners who can provide
help in cooperating with different partners and helping old people. There are several local
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authorities who have right to decide what is right for an individual. It is important for Jerry to
understand the situation properly and manage the scenario. Doris is an old lady who require help
because she is getting old and health issues are arising. There is consideration of various
problems faced by her in conducting the daily activities. Medical caregivers and family both are
needed to manage the work and case like Doris. There is need of managing an supporting old
people like these. Safeguarding adults is a very important factor and medical practitioners or
caregivers have to follow all regulations and rules (Bagchi, 2020). There is need to manage the
safety regulations and concerning about patient's health.
In this modern world, health issue and problems has been rising at rapid scale with changing
period of time. To protect individual from such problems, it is essential to focus on adapting of
safeguard practices so that safety regarding health is maintained properly. It is important to
adopt safeguarding as it assists the health safety of people. It also depicts that individual is safe
from any type of health problems. Further, with due to this people are becoming more aware
about safeguard practices which are beneficial for health safety. Their concern for health has
also increased which leads to using of more methods to protect health. This is reason that
safeguarding has become important concept which is required to be focused in correct way. The
safety is done to protect children, old age people, friends & family. It is essential to have
appropriate knowledge and information regarding such practices which assist in maintaining
proper care of health. Practices of safeguarding make ensure that health is being taken as first
priority by every individual. There are various types of situation which has direct as well as
indirect effect on individual mental & physical health (Yoeli, Morey, and Pizycki, 2016).
Several types of situation such as financial or mental abuse, cyber abuse etc. comes under this
category. It is important to focus on these situations so that correct measures are adopted for
protecting person from difficult situations. By properly understanding the concept of protection
& safety, it become easy to live with peace. It is crucial for practitioners to always ensure the
safety and security of anyone who they meet as part of their role – it is part of their
responsibility. So, if practitioner’s main focus is on a certain member of a family, they need to be
aware of any issues within that family and ensure action is taken or a referral is made to
safeguard the entire family. To achieve this, it is necessary to have effective crossover between
different safeguarding sectors to make assure that there is joint working between different
agencies.
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Principles of safeguarding are also established by governments like empowerment,
prevention, proportionality, protection, partnership and accountability. These stated principles
depicts ways through individual can prevent themselves from health issues. Furthermore, it is
stated that there many other laws which are focused by government with aim to protect from
problems & issues. Also, approaches of safeguarding are being too considered like first
approach is intervention which is inter-linked with advocacy public unpin with aim of suggestion
related to particular cause. Then is respective intervention in which main aim is to deliver or
give appropriate advice to individual. Further intervention is adult family group which provide
activities which are related to safeguarding. Also, this method too provide amenities
coordination & cooperation which helps them to find most suitable solution for keeping health
safe. It is crucial to focus on these , practices so that it become easy to make decisions
regarding health in proper manner. It is examined that with appropriate analysis of these
practices, principles, it is easy to made correct decisions are regarding health safety. The
intervention approaches are beneficial for examining of how practices can be used of
safeguarding.
CONCLUSION
From the above analysis, it is concluded that safeguarding is an essential factors within
health care profession as it enables to provide effective service to people. There are several ways
for managing individual's life and health and a medical carer or professional has responsibility of
controlling and managing various situations of people and making best solution for them. There
are various legal regulations and practices involved within the safeguarding techniques. These
help to monitor and control the service of carer. Several issues of patients can be controlled if
health carer is analysing the patient's situation. There are various interventions used within the
safeguarding activities that help health care practitioner to support and manage patient's
situation. Moreover, various rules are developed for feeling safe and secure. It is also important
for medical practitioners to enhance positivity while their working. This increases opportunities
for effective treatment of individuals.
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