Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social Care

Safeguarding and Protection in Health and
Social care

Table of Contents
Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social care.........................................................................1
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
Responsibilities of Health and Social care practitioner in relation to whistleblowing.......................3
How Health and social care practitioners safeguards individuals......................................................4
How Health and social care practitioners safeguards themselves’.....................................................4
Boundaries of confidentiality in relation to safeguarding, protection and well-being of individuals. 5
Benefits of working in partnership in relation to safeguarding and protection...................................6
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Safeguarding refers to the protection of health of people, their well-being and their
human rights as well. Safeguarding enable them to live abuse free, harm free and neglect free
lives. The Care Act 2004 promotes protection and safeguarding. It is the legal framework for
how the local authorities and other systems which protects adults who are at the risk of abuse,
harm or neglect (Hassiotis and et.al., 2020).
The report will aim to describe responsibilities of Health and Social care practitioner in
relation to whistleblowing, practices of health and social care workers for safeguarding
individuals and themselves, boundaries of confidentiality and benefits of partnership.
Responsibilities of Health and Social care practitioner in relation to whistleblowing
Whistleblowing refers to the early warning system which allows to address
malpractices before they cause serious harms. In health and social care if any action which is
recognised as potentially harmful for people, the health and social care practitioners have the
duty to report it before it results into serious harms. The patients in healthcare are always at
the risk of receiving malpractices and take appropriate action accordingly. As the nature of
health and social care is that the mistakes which have been considered as minimal in other
sectors can have serious outcomes on all the people involved.
The health and social care practitioners have to report the complaint and the other
practitioners have to maintain the confidentiality of the reporter as well. It means the people
will now the identity of person who files complaint but they will conceal it as long as
possible. They also have the responsibility to draw attention towards the concerns when a
complaint is reported (Green, Manthorpe and Martineau, 2021). The practitioners and the
organization have to ensure the whistleblowing protocols within the company and set out a
whistleblowing policy as well. It is outlined in the code of conduct of health and social care
practitioners. The employers in health and social care services also have the same
Practitioner
responsibilities
Reporting the complaint Maintain confidentiality Ensuring whistleblowing
protocols