Unit 5 Safeguarding and Protection in Care Settings

This unit covers the topic of safeguarding and protection in care settings. It explains the term safeguarding, own role and responsibilities in safeguarding adults, and defines various types of abuse. It also covers identifying signs and symptoms of abuse, actions to take if abuse is suspected or reported, and ways to reduce the likelihood of abuse. Additionally, it describes potential risks presented by electronic communication devices, the internet, social networking sites, and financial transactions online.

Unit5 Safeguarding
and Protection in
care settings

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(Unit5 Safeguarding and Protection in care settings)
1.1 Explain the term safeguarding.
Ans. Safeguarding specifically means protecting the well-being, health as well as the human
rights of people who are generally at risk. Safeguarding can also enable the people to live
safely, free from particular abuse as well as neglect.
1.2 Explain own role and responsibilities in safeguarding adults.
Ans. The role of the care provider is to aid the people to make their informed choices as well
as encourage them to manage any particular risks. It is their duty to promote the well-being
among the local communities or the care organizations.
1.3 Define the following terms:
 Physical abuse
Ans. The term physical abuse is generally when someone harms or hurt the people or children
on a particular purpose. The physical abuse can include hitting with the objects or domestic
violence, it can be slapping or punching the person.
 Domestic abuse
Ans. The term domestic violence is generally defined as the violence that is particularly
committed by the someone in the victim’s domestic circle.
 Sexual abuse
Ans. Sexual abuse is generally defined as the sexual behaviour or it is a sexual act that is
particularly forced upon a female, male or the child without their permission. A sexual abuse
generally involves an abuse of a female, male or child by a male, female or children. It is an
another means of oppressing female in a patriarchal community.
 Emotional/psychological abuse
Ans. The psychological abuse is often called as an emotional abuse. It is generally a form of
abuse which is particularly characterised by the people subjecting as well as revealing
another people to the behaviour which may results in the psychological trauma such as
chronic depression, the post traumatic stress illness and many more.
 Financial/material abuse
Ans. The financial or the material abuse can involve the theft, coercion in relation to the
people’s financial affair or the plan consisting in connection with the property, wills or the
financial transactions.

 Modern slavery
Ans. Modern slavery is the severe misuse of other people for their personal as well as the
commercial gain.
 Discriminatory abuse
Ans. The discriminatory abuse is the abuse when people treat an individual unfairly because
they think an individual is pretty different. It can be happened because of the sex, religion,
gender, disability or it may be another reason.
 Institutional/organisational abuse.
Ans. The organisational or the institutional abuse is generally the mistreatment of the people
typically in the organizational which generally brought about by the poor or an inadequate
care as well as encourage or the systematic poor trainings which can affect the whole care
sectors.
 Self-neglect
Ans. The Self-neglect generally implies the incapability or the unwillingness to attend to the
personal as well as the hygiene of an individual. It may manifest in various ways like not
attending to an individual’s nutrition, clothing, hygiene or it can be acting more appropriately
to care for the specific medical situations.
 Neglect by others
Ans. Neglect is generally a form of abuse which can involves a various number of acts of
omission. In this, examples may include the ignoring physical as well as medical care
requirements, withdrawing the provisions of life.
1.4 Describe harm.
Ans. The term harm can involve the ill treatment containing sexual abuse, misuse as well as
the forms of ill treatment that is not physical. It can also involve the impairment of the well-
being or the development such as the intellectual, behavioural, social, emotional and physical
as well.
1.5 Describe restrictive practices.
Ans. The restrictive practices generally mean any of the practices or the interventions which
has the effects of the restricting the rights or the freedom of the movement of a person with
specific disability.
2.1 Identify the signs and or symptoms associated with each of the following types of abuse:
 Physical abuse
Ans. The very obvious signs and symptoms that are involve with physical abuse are such as
the cuts, burns, restraint or markings of grip, unusual patterns of an injury, bruises and many
more.

 Domestic abuse
Ans. The signs which are included in this is, post traumatic stress, elevated anxiety,
depression and many more.
 Sexual abuse
Ans. The signs and symptoms involve in sexual abuse such as bruising, bleeding, bumps as
well as the scabs around the genital, anus, or the mouth.
 Emotional/psychological abuse
Ans. The warning signs which comes under emotional or psychological abuse such as the
humiliation, accusing, blaming, being emotional neglect as well as isolation.
 Financial/material abuse
Ans. it involves such as the missing personal possessions, an unexplained lack of money or
the incapability to maintain the lifestyle, the unexplained withdrawal of the funds from the
accounts.
 Modern slavery
Ans. The signs and the symptoms which are involved in the modern slavery such as the
evidence of the organization which is being used for an accommodation, the signs of the
psychological trauma, the untreated harms, the signs of drug abuse and many more.
 Discriminatory abuse
Ans. The signs that ae particularly included in the discriminatory abuse such as the
withdrawal or isolation from other people or society, an expression of anger or frustration, the
support or the care which is given does not meet the needs of an individual and so on.
 Institutional/organisational abuse
Ans. In this, the signs that are involved such as the lack of flexibility, an unsafe as well as
unhygienic environment, the lack of privacy, dignity as well as respect for the people as an
individual and many other.
2.2 Describe factors that may contribute to an individual being more vulnerable to abuse.
Ans. The factors which may contribute to an individual that is being more vulnerable towards
the abuse are as detailed below:
The limited independence: In this, it involves not having the full independence can
make individuals reliant on the others that can results in mistreatment.
Confusions: In this, the dementia or the mental disorder can result in the people not
understanding that they are suffering from any abuse or not being able to recall it happening.

Unable to communicate: In this, the people with the communication difficulties can
not be able to report that the people have been abused.
3.1 Explain the actions to take if there are suspicions that an individual is being abused.
Ans. The actions which are taken when the people are being abused such as follow the
safeguarding policies as well as the procedures, must report the abuse immediately to the
designated person, make a written record of the abuse.
3.2 Explain the actions to take if an individual alleges that they are being abused.
Ans. In this, the best practice is to make it soon possible so that the management is
immediately aware the suspicions as well as the actions are generally carried out under the
corporate safety protocols. It is greatly recommended that the people must keep a written
record of the disclosures.
3.3 Identify ways to ensure that evidence of abuse is preserved.
Ans. The ways that particularly ensures that the evidences of the abuse are being preserved
such as the keep the clothing unwashed, keep the written records in the very safe place, must
take the photographs, record the information on the body chart.
4.1 Identify relevant legislation, national policies and local systems that relate to safeguarding
and protection from abuse.
Ans. The relevant legislations, national policies as well as the local systems which can
particularly relate to the safeguarding as well as protecting from the abuse such as The
Human Right Act 1998, The Mental Capacity Act 2005, Equality Act 2010, The Care Act
2014, The Safeguarding Vulnerable Group Act 2006 and many more.
4.2 Explain the role of different agencies in safeguarding and protecting individuals from
abuse.
Ans. The various agencies can work in collaboration with regards to the safeguarding as well
as can protecting the people from any abuse. It is particularly legislated in the well-being as
well as the social care act 2012 as well as the Care Act 2014. In this, the local authorities can
set up a Safeguarding Adult Boards that have representation from the local authority, the
clinical commissioning groups and so on. These are particularly responsible for safeguarding
in the local regions as well as they must work in partnership in order to prevent the neglect as
well as abuse locally, can raise the awareness as well as can oversee the local safeguarding.
4.3 Identify factors that have featured in reports in to serious cases of abuse and neglect.
Ans. The factors which particularly have featured in the adult neglect as well as abuse such as
the lack of communication among the services containing not sharing the essential data, the
ineffective partnership working among the services. In this, the factor must involve those
adults which can receive the care as well as support or their families and the friends not being
included in the making decisions about their particular care.
4.4 Identify sources of information and advice about own role in safeguarding and protecting
individuals from abuse, including whistleblowing procedure.
Ans. In this, the social services such as the service department of the local authority will be
able to give advice as well as encourage on protecting as well as safeguarding the vulnerable

people. In this, the care quality commission such as the independent regulators can provide
the guidance on the governmental policies or legislations.
4.5 Identify when to seek support in situations beyond your experience and expertise.
Ans. It can involve such as:
 People may contain thought about ending up their life.
 They particularly increase the number of conflicts.
 The alcohol or the other substances that are used to aid the people can overcome their
emotions or relax as well as unwind after the very stressful events.
5.1 Explain how the likelihood of abuse may be reduced by:
 Working with person-centred values
Ans. The principles which seeks to expand involve the fostering the people’s freedom,
more specifically in the matter which can relates to the liberty. When the care providers
provide the folks the freedom to make their own decisions can aid the people to build
their self esteem as well as can deal with the feelings of the independence, it can
positively influence their well-being.
 Encouraging active participation
Ans. In this, the autonomy is generally a method which can encourage the freedom of the
people in their everyday life. By opening the options up to the patients as it supports the
patients to take the control of their care as well as can effectively participate in their own
care instead of being passive receiver of it.
 Promoting choice and rights
Ans. In this, based on the true data instead of assumptions, the service requires as well as
the opportunities, the care providers can aid the client become as well as can exercise
more power, not just their conformity by expanding upon the data, it, the people are
generally given with the more opportunities to become much better educated as well as
more capable of making the more appropriate decisions.
 Supporting individuals with awareness of personal safety.
Ans. In this, the opportunities for abuse as well as neglect is generally lessened by
supporting the people to know their level of safety. In this, the formal training can
generally address how the people’s right can be limited.
5.2 Explain the importance of an accessible complaints procedure for reducing the likelihood
of abuse.
Ans. It generally enables the organization to determine the failings in a particular system.
5.3 Outline how the likelihood of abuse can be reduced by managing risk and focusing on
prevention.

Ans. In this, managing the particular risks as well as concentrating on the prevention can
generally decreases the possibility of the abuse because, it particularly means that the care
givers can be a proactive as well as can handle the risks of abuse just before it happens.
6.1 Describe unsafe practices that may affect the wellbeing of individuals.
Ans. In this, it can involve the withholding of money as well as the property from the people.
In this, when doing the personal care on the people without washing the hands or the PPE kits
is generally a big issue. It can involve various unsafe practices such as the unsanitary
conditions, not washing the hands properly, and many other.
6.2 Explain the actions to take if unsafe practices have been identified.
Ans. In context with the actions, the care givers must set up the warning signs to alert the
others to the harm. The unsafe practices must be challenged right away as well as must not be
allow to continue.
6.3 – Describe the actions to take if suspected abuse or unsafe practices have been reported
but nothing has been done in response.
Ans. In this, escalating the concerns to the manager or the external agency to make a report.
7.1 – Describe the potential risks presented by:
 The use of electronic communication devices
Ans. In this, the electronic communication devices such as the tablets, phones, the
desktops and many more. These all are generally used to facilitate the communication.
The interaction among the other people can be beneficial, but there is a risk linked with
engaging with the people who generally are not who they claim to be.
 The use of the internet
Ans. In this, the cyber bullying and grooming for the sexual misuse are generally all are
the possibilities. Most of these particular dangers can also be found when using the
internet. In this, the browsing websites, downloading/uploading the files and many others
are the examples of internet.
 The use of social networking sites
Ans. It can involve the addiction, the waste of time as well as the loss of productivity, loss
of privacy and many other.
 Carrying out financial transactions online
Ans. In this, the potential risk involved such as the theft of information, malware, the fake
online reviews, the phishing and many more.
7.2 – Explain ways of reducing the risks presented by each of these types of activity.
Ans. In this, supporting the people with data about how to protect themselves is also an
effective way to reduce the harm. It can involve the following such as enabling the other
people to use their devices while not enabling themselves to use theirs, not disclosing the
passwords with anyone and so on.

7.3 – Explain the importance of balancing measures for online safety against the benefits to
individuals of using electronic systems and devices.
Ans. In this, the people who are more prone towards the risk must not be denied to access the
technology can simply because they are more vulnerable. In this, the risk assessment can be
done in the partnership with the people can simply estimate the possibility as well as the
severity of the risks and the efficacy to improve the strategies.

Topic (Unit 45 Team Working)
Explain why mutual respect and support promotes effective teamwork.
Ans. Supporting the mutual respect can effectively aid to decrease the workplace stress,
conflict as well as the issues. An enhancement in workplace respect will aid to enhance the
communication among colleagues, enhance the teamwork as well as can decrease the stress
as peace in the workplace soars. It generally enhances the productivity, knowledge as well as
understanding.
Explain how the values of own organisation influences the working of your team.
Ans. When organisations can effectively build a common set of values which particularly
affect the team various ways such as they can aid the teams to build on respect, resolve the
conflict as well as can establish the trusting relationships among them.
Explain how teams manage change.
Ans. The team can be managed by the change such as:
 Create an effective plan.
 Understand the end objectives.
 Communicate effectively as well as more clearly.
 Analyse the key players.
 Represent the tasks.
 Set accurate aims.
 Manage opportunities.
 Hold the people responsible.
Explain the benefits of effective team performance.
Ans. The benefits of an effective teamwork can involve an enhanced efficiency, the ability to
concentrate various different minds on the similar issues as well as the mutual support.
3.1 Identify own role and responsibility within the team. Can refer to work produced for Unit
2 1.1 for ideas on this point. Remember that it refers to role and responsibilities within a
team, so you can include information with a view to your position in a team.
Ans. The core team manager roles as well as the responsibilities are to aid the workers to
complete their tasks so that the organization can effectively meets its targets or the goals.
3.7 Explain lines of reporting and responsibility in the team. Ensure to give a clear picture
the chain of command within your team, and the line of responsibility within your team.
Ans. In this, the organizational structure can specifically depict each worker to whom
they report, what are the functional areas they are responsible for as well as who reports to
them. These are the clear lines of authority to prevent such confusion as the two supervisors
providing the conflicting guidelines to the worker.

5.1 Reflect on own performance in working as part of a team. This will be addressed by
completing a SWOT analysis of your performance as part of a team to help form the basis of
the reflection.
Ans.
Strength
 An effective Communication Skills.
 Effective Leadership Skill.
Weaknesses
 conflict solving skill.
 Team work.
Opportunity
 To enhance the conflict solving skills.
 To Learn an inspiring team work.
Threat
 Lack of enhancement in the skills such as
conflict solving.
 Not able to effectively learn about team
work.
5.2 Review team performance in achieving or working towards goals. This will be addressed
by performing another SWOT analysis, but this time regarding a specific goal that your team
is working toward. Then use this as a basis to write your review. Remember this time the
review is for your team as a whole, and its performance to achieve a specific goal. May need
manager input.
Ans. A SMART aim should be peculiar, essential, achievable, practical along with the time framed. It
can specifically include the few of the aims that are as detailed below and which should be fulfilled
for the above action plan such as:
 To improve the conflict solving skills up to by 40% for solving the various problems with the
actual time in the coming two months.
 To enhance the skills like motivation skills up to by 50% less than 2 months that can help to
implement the task with improved efficacy among the organization.
 To obtain the improved team work among the very 4 months which can be quite impressive
to work with several others to execute the various task.