Safeguarding Vulnerable Children Assignment
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ABSTRACT To critically analyse the policies and procedures on safeguarding for the service users intheir own home from the perspective of care workers. Background: Safeguarding term is generally used in health and social care in context of protectinghuman beings from any kind of harm or damage by using appropriate measures. In UK, it is used toprotect the health, well being and human rights on individual manner.Methods: Primary and secondary methods of data collection were used for conducting the researchby the scholar. Along with this, electronic search was carried out for collecting the right informationfrom the different secondary sources. The search was guided by inclusion and exclusion criteria. Findings: Children have faced the different kinds of abuses and its harms which has directly affecttheir health. By giving the safeguarding services to them, it can be easy to protect them from abuseat their own home. Care workers have played various roles on providing the safeguarding childrenat their own home. Conclusion: By adopting the different kinds of strategies and having the positive perspective onsafeguarding, the care workers can easily safeguarding services to the services users. 2
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to thank my mentor for guiding me throughout the research. His guidance andsupport was a source of immense inspiration and encouragement. I would also like to expressthanks to my friends and family members who have always been supportive through the research.With their support and persistent help, the dissertation could be completed. 3
Table of ContentsABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................................2ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ...................................................................................................................3CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................51.2 Research aim and objectives......................................................................................................51.3 Factors that contribute to the selection of research topic...........................................................61.4 Literature review........................................................................................................................61.5 Research Methodology..............................................................................................................71.6 Structure of the project..............................................................................................................7CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW .............................................................................................82.1 Introduction ...............................................................................................................................82.2 Literature review........................................................................................................................8CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY .....................................................................................................123.1 Methodology, methods and techniques ...................................................................................123.2 Sampling .................................................................................................................................123.3 Data collection ........................................................................................................................133.4 Ethical considerations .............................................................................................................15CHAPTER 4: DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS ..................................................................164.1 Data collection ........................................................................................................................164.2 Data analysis and discussion ...................................................................................................16CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS........................................................195.1 Conclusion ..............................................................................................................................195.2 Recommendations....................................................................................................................195.3 Areas for further study.............................................................................................................19References..........................................................................................................................................204
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTIONSafeguarding term is generally used in health and social care in context of protecting humanbeings from any kind of harm or damage by using appropriate measures. In UK, it is used to protectthe health, well being and human rights on individual manner. This team is specially used forchildren, adults or old age people to live freely from abuse or harm (What is safeguarding?. 2015).The UK government has enacted various legislations as well as guidelines and published them inthe favour protecting child, adult or old people from maltreatment, preventing them fromimpairment and providing them the best care and support. As per the safeguarding legislations andgovernment guidance, safeguarding means ensuring that children are born and brought up in goodenvironmental conditions with the provision of safe and effective care (What is safeguarding?.2015). The following research is based on policies and procedures on safeguarding the service usersin their own home from the perspective of care workers. Here, the service users are children whoare facing different kinds of harms and abuse at their home. The researcher has chosen this themefor the investigation because of some reasons. From the study of different facts and figures, it hasbeen identified that one among the five children has faced serious physical or sexual abuse oremotional or physical neglecting by the family, friends and other people at any point in their life. In2011-12, 21,493 sexual abuse related cases with the children has recorded by the UK police. Inaddition to this, 1 out of 14 children have been physically abused and 1 out of 5 children have beenfaced the domestic violence in their life in UK (Some of the facts. 2015). Therefore, by seeing suchtype of conditions, it is important to develop some policies and procedures on safeguarding for thechildren to protect them from any kind of abuse or harm at their own home. 1.2 Research aim and objectivesAim: “To critically analyse the policies and procedures on safeguarding for the service users intheir own home from the perspective of care workers”Objectives:To access the types of abuse and their harms faced by children at their own home. To determine the policies and procedures on safeguarding for children. To explore the care worker’s perspective regarding policies and procedures on safeguardingfor children in their own home. To recommended new ways by which care workers can provide safeguarding to children attheir own home. 5
1.3 Factors that contribute to the selection of research topicThere are various factors which make the contribution in the selection of research topic anddetermine the requirement of carrying out investigation. The elements which have influenced theresearcher to choose the theme of research are as follows: Personal interest: I have a personal interest in the topic of safeguarding policies andprocedures for services users to their own home. In my near environment and places, I have seenthat the mostly, children are facing various kinds of harms and abuses in their life. It can be either attheir home, school or workplace. It has directly impacted their health and stopped their developmentin various areas. Therefore, I want to increase my own awareness towards the present policies andprocedures for safeguarding the children at their own home. Gain the experience: The following research is having more importance from myperception because it helps me to gain the knowledge about available procedures and policies ofsafeguarding to protect the children from harm and abuse at their own home. This research will helpme to develop my career in the field of care workers to provide safeguarding to the children toprotect them from the harm and abuse at their own home. Availability of literatures:While studying the following subject on net, I found there was apresence of sufficient information and literatures on the particular theme of investigation.Therefore, with the enough availability of material on the internet, I will increase my understandingon the research as well as would know the perception of different researchers in an effectivemanner. The ample amount of helping material on the given problem will help me to save my timeduring research. 1.4 Literature reviewLiterature review is an evaluation of previous research which helps in addressing theresearch questions of investigation. It has given the overview of different aspects such as things thathave been said, prevailing hypothesis and theories, key writers and authors and useful methods tomeet the objectives of the research (Fink, 2005). It defines the relationship between views ofdifferent writers and conclusion from the review. The following research is based on analyzing thecare worker’s perspectives regarding policies and procedures of safeguarding for services users attheir own home. In this context, the literature review will be divided into four sections. These areaswill be related to kinds of harms and abuses faced by children at their own home, policies andprocedures on safeguarding for children, care worker’s perspective regarding policies andprocedures on safeguarding for children in their own home and new methods to providesafeguarding to the children at their own home from the harm or abuse. To cover all these sectionsin an appropriate manner, researcher will take the help of different writer’s opinions and6
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