Unit 5 Safeguarding and Protection in Care Settings

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.