Safeguarding Assignment 2022

Running head: SAFEGUARDING
SAFEGUARDING
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Safeguarding is a concept that creates a secure and comfortable environment in which
everyone is respected as well as valued. Safeguarding is used in organisations to prevent
harm, abuse and bullying. To ensure safeguarding, one requires to develop habits as well as
practices that will keep people safe. Safeguarding is used in the perspective of a child that
keeps attention on the policies of the organisations as well as the group and the policies they
implement regarding the safety of the child (Wood 2016). The purpose of safeguarding is to
protect people and report issues to the concerned authority. The strategies help in supporting
and safeguarding children and providing the necessary procedures that will help achieve the
above. Empowering people by encouraging them to make their decisions, preventing risk and
promoting their welfare, feelings and beliefs is a way of safeguarding people from
uncomfortable events (Craven and Tooley 2016). Children safeguarding policy helps in
promoting awareness as well as mitigating any risk that may be caused by employees as well
as representatives. The primary aim of the essay is to discuss Making Safeguarding Personal
and Advocacy as two interventions regarding safeguarding and show how it would be
suitable as well as proper for Clarrie.
A young women Clarrie is suffering from an eating disorder as well as having issues
with hoarding. She lives alone in a flat; however, she needs support as well as assistance from
the mental health team, but she does not want any help from the former. The landlord,
because of her behaviour, wants her to leave the flat, but she denies to comply with his
decision. In the situation of Clarrie, it is quite clear that she needs safeguarding interventions
that would protect and preserve her from unwanted behaviour of people and at the same time
support her. Making Safeguarding Personal is a safeguarding intervention that is led by the
person itself and is focused on the outcome (Wood 2016). It tries to engage the concerned
person in a conversation where techniques and methods are shared with on how to respond to
the safeguarding situation concerning them in such a way that enhances control, involvement

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and choice on the one hand and the other hand improves the person’s wellbeing, quality of
life and security (Lawson 2017). In making safeguarding personal, information about the
person is collected so that it has a positive impact on the individual and people surrounding
them. It focuses on establishing an understanding of people’s wishes where negotiations are
carried out to work for their betterment. Therefore it would be a suitable approach to use it in
the case of Clarrie where the permanent solutions would be given to her regarding her
problem, and she will be able to apply the advice on her own as she does not want any help
from others. Making safeguarding personal when used in the case of Clarrie will also be
beneficial for the people who are living around her. Making safeguarding personal approach
will also protect Clarrie from uncomfortable circumstances. It will further help her resolve
her eating disorder and identify the internal problem that she is going through.
Even the legislation of the UK government pays extra attention to the safeguarding of
children. Their law focuses on protecting the children from all kinds of abuse as well as
neglect, preventing the development and impairment regarding their health and ensures that
the child is brought up in a safe and productive environment so that they are successfully able
to enter adulthood. The government further implemented the policy of Working Together to
safeguard Children, where the organisations, as well as individuals, would work towards
preserving and promoting the welfare of the children (Cooper, Cocker and Briggs 2018).
Therefore the above policy implemented by the UK government is similar to making
safeguarding personal that ensures the wellbeing of children as well as adults. Secondly, it
also promotes diversity as people who require safeguarding comes from different
backgrounds. The voices of all the different groups are heard and kept in mind whole
developing policies of safeguarding. Thirdly, making safeguarding personal also ensures that
people’s experiences, as well as knowledge, are rewarded and recognised by other groups
(Cooper, Cocker and Briggs 2018). This can be put into action by offering people the

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opportunity for personal development. Some of the advantages of making safeguarding
personal are that it promotes equality amongst all. By justice, they try to restore a balance for
people who have long been neglected and discriminated. Some of the disadvantages of
making safeguarding personal are that the workload is very high, and therefore at times, it
becomes difficult to allocate work according to the available resources. Another disadvantage
is that people might face problems in building a relationship with adults as well as the
children and that the latter may not always follow their advice and be resistant to their
safeguarding techniques. Thirdly, the safeguarding model is not considered to be as essential
and necessary, as other factors. It is often ignored and avoided (Norrie et al 2017). Most of
the time, people forget that listening to the concerned person is also very essential rather than
telling the former to focus on their advice. Another criticism regarding the making
safeguarding personal in the past was that it would make the person more miserable than
before due to the protective methods that are implemented by the professionals (Norrie et al
2017).
In the UK legislation, the Care Act of 2014 was introduced to consolidate as well as
update the law regarding the care of adults in England. The Act was the most significant
evidence of legislation in the UK. According to the Care Act introduced by the UK
government, there are specific duties that need to be followed by the local authorities. It not
only pays attention to the person who requires care but also to their caregivers. The
responsibilities are- promoting the wellbeing of an individual, prior arrangement of resources
and services to prevent needs that arise for care as well as support, promoting care with the
help of healthcare services, giving advice to adults and caregivers, maintaining diversity and
quality of services and lastly co-operating with third parties (Cooper and Bruin 2017). The
Act further provides a scheme of direct payment that is made to the person who needs care as
well as support. The Act has also made provisions regarding disabled children as well as their