Safeguarding Strategies in Health and Social Care

This assignment provides an overview of safeguarding strategies in health and social care, highlighting the importance of risk assessment, supervision, timescale setting, and government support. It also explores how to improve working practices and strategies for the safety and well-being of vulnerable groups.

SAFEGUARDING
Introduction
Safeguarding in health or social care is most
discussed as well as developed matter which help in
reducing harm as well as risk factors. It has been
discussed about the different factors that make a
particular vulnerable group to harm themselves and
also risk factors for individual and others has been
explained related to case scenario.
Mental as well as physical exercise programmes:
This is very much important for those people who
are suffering from any kind of physical as well as
mental disabilities. Individual become vulnerable
because of their mental or physical disabilities and
disorder. Government as well as health care centres
provide different types of benefit to vulnerable
group so that they can easily control and recover
their condition of disability. They can interact with
society in most effective and systematic manner by
controlling disability problem. Also, help in
reducing abuses and harm which they are facing in
day to day life. They are mentally as well as
physically enough strong to handle these kind of
issues effectively with the help this legislation.
Structure of Communication: There should be
proper communication channels between service
provider and patients in order to give best services
and treatment to all the users. All workers should
follow all the policies and legislation while
providing services to the clients.
Educational approach: It is one of the most popular and effective approach which is used in
health and social care context while making strategies and plans for minimise harm and abuse in
health care context. There are so many local authorities, health care providers as well as
government body who provide education to those people who need help like vulnerable groups.
This approach ensure that individual have basic information and knowledge about policies,
medications and legislation which are formed for their physical and mental disabilities.
Training and development: It play very major role for attaining more profitability and growth in
health and social care. There should be regular training and development program provided to the
service provider for improving their skills and knowledge regarding health care practices.
Mentoring and induction: It is one of the major responsibility of health care management to
monitor entire operational activities and practices in most suitable manner to avoid risk factors. It
is very important to monitor overall functions of the health care management for reducing the
problems and issues.
Empowerment: HSC must give more focus on person centred care for satisfying needs of patients
in effective and proper form by providing them right treatment. This will reduce the risk factor
and improve health care system.
(Q6) 3.1 Strategies and Working Practices to Reduce Abuse in
Health Care
Supervision: There must be appropriate supervision for reducing any kind of risk factors
and improving performance at health and social care system. It is duty of higher authority to
allot work between all members according to their abilities and monitor their performance
on regular basis to attain best outcomes.
Recording Information Consistently: It is one of the major responsibility of health and
social care system to maintain and record all the data of services users and do not share with
any third party. Government formed various laws to safety and security of patient's
information according to which HSC should maintain all the relevant information of
patients.
Development of risk assessment document: It is another method which is used in health
care context while providing safety or security to various vulnerable groups. This will help
management to identify the risk and hazards situation for patient and take appropriate action
for minimising risk in health care practices.
Whistle blowing strategies and
Legislation: This kind of strategies
used by health care organisation to
ensure safety and security of people
who require more care. The whistle
blowing strategies are used to inform
manager regarding misbehave of staff
members such as harm and abuses.
Responsible parties and manager should
have proper knowledge about all these
strategies to achieve better result. For
public place and care homes emergency
alarm system is very important which
help to reduce risk and harm on the
ground. This method of strategy assists
authority and responsible parties to
keep all the health and social care
practices safe and secure with minimum
harm as well as accidents.

All the strategies that are discussed above help health and social care system to ensure security as
well as well-being of the people. It is very important to provide safe and secure environment for the
service user and provider. There are various strategies and plans are adopted by the management for
maintaining positive and healthy condition and eliminate existing risk factors. Adopted strategies
help to improve the inter-professional co-action between all the health and social care practices for
providing effective services to patients. The main aim of healthcare system to give best practices
and treatment to all clients and improve health problems. Their effectiveness can be identifying by
considering their weaknesses or strengths.
Educational approach: There are huge benefits of this approach in health care context. This will
assist manager to operate all their functional activities as well as practice in most systematic way as
individual have to know basic knowledge in reacting operational activities. This method assists in
providing knowledge and awareness to patients regarding their safety and security so that they can
easily identify risk and harm as well as known how reacting in such kind of situation. Through
education patients can easily develop their personality which train them to interact with other
people in proper manner with minimum harm and risk of abuse. But this method need lots of money
for educating people for the health and social care setting. Due to this reason some of the health
care centre will not able to expend huge amount of capital in such kind of training programs.
Physical exercises: This is most important method which is used in health care context to control
mental as well as physical disability situation. This will help in controlling individual’s mental and
physical disorder condition by providing effective physical exercise benefits to them. This method
requires more time for doing exercise in most effective as well as systematic manner and people
will not prefer utilising their time on exercising. Effectiveness of this strategy is that it will change
the personal habits of patients.
(Q7) 3.2 Effectiveness of strategies and working practices Training courses: There are different type of training courses that have to be completed by
health and social care workers for boosting their ability to deal with issues and problems. These
programs are conducted so that effeteness of these workers can be boosted. Various training
courses are stated below:
Health and safety: It is an important way of boosting care worker’s ability in safeguarding and
ensuring that patients are able to grow better.
Infection prevention and control: As per the health and social care Act 2008 it is mandatory
for care workers to undergo this training so that they can provide individuals with a good
environment.
Manual handling: This is related to worker’s ability to deal with various substances that can
harm others as well as themselves if not properly used.
Benefits of Training: There are several benefits of training to the employees of HSC. This will
ensure that each patient requirements are understood and they are served in a specified manner.
The individuals will be using each aspect so that they are able to learn from training to treat the
patient in a right way.
DBS: It is also known as Disclosure Barring services which ensures that all confidential data
about patient is kept out of any individual hand. This ensures that person is safe and there is
nothing that can affect him in a wrong way.
Communication: It is a very important aspect that has to be carefully done and maintained. If
there is a lack of communication in between doctors, nurses and care takers then patient life is at
stake. There are different ways which can be used for making flow of communication more
effective which is to conduct Staff meeting, supervision/appraisal of people, a module setting
as well as utilisation of ICT as to develop direct channels.
Hence, health and social care system use all these approaches for providing best services and
practices to all the service users and improve health and positive condition within the
organisation so that patients feel better. SOVA means safeguarding vulnerable adults, it is
concept which is used by HSC for designing and planning the training course which help care
provider to enhance their skills so that they can protect the patient's care in proper manner. This
act is designed for child protection and to handle all the issues and problems of health and safety.
It is duty of management to provide proper training and development programs for their
employees to enhance their existing skills and knowledge.

(Q8) 3.3 Improvements to working practices and strategies
Improving the working practices as well as strategies that are available for the safety and well-being
of vulnerable groups in health and social care system. They can improve efficiency or effectiveness
of all these strategies.
Government support: Organisation used this method to improve efficiency level of all the above
mentioned strategies. Government provide financial support to health and social care system so that
they can run their operations in smooth way. This will help health care organisation in conducting
various types of strategies such as providing education to people regarding health care through
financial support of the legal body. Government provide many services like education to managers
of small scale care home which help them in creating effective risk assessment for reducing risk as
well as harm.
Conclusion
From the above project report it has been concluded that safeguarding is most important
aspect in health care context which minimise the risk as well harm. There are so many
different factors that make person to be vulnerable. All those risk elements can be evaluated
by the care provider for providing safety and security to all patients. It also builds good and
strong relationship bond between managers and staff through which performance as well as
profitability will increase. Manual handling regulation define various services which worker
have to provide to patient in proper manner such as pulling, putting down, caring and lifting
by giving them support.
There are different practices that are undertaken by care workers. Such as cleaning, dressing as
well as bandages of patients. There are various approaches that can be undertaken as to ensure
that employees as well as patients are safe in the environment.
Health and safety audit: This is important as to keep on checking the health and safety
environment within premises. They need to ensure that all exists as well as safety equipment’s
are as per the required capability.
Supervising: New employees need to be supervised so that they are able to perform each task in
an effective manner.
Timescale setting: it is essential as this will ensure that each task is completed in a set time
period.
Hence, all the above mentioned strategies used by health and social care for minimising any kind
of abuse and improve working practice in health care system. There are various sources through
which HSC can collect information for improving safeguarding such as books, literature, media
and many more. The Care act 2015 is formed by government for protecting the rights of patients
and provide proper guidelines to all the health care organisation to tell them how to use the care
act in proper way. Government formed many laws, policies and legislation regarding health and
social care for protecting rights of service users. CQC play very important role in safeguarding
as it helps to monitor, regulate and inspect all the services to make ensure that they are in good
quality and safe for the clients.
Creation of risk assessment: Every organisation must make creation of risk assessment which
will help in operating all the practices in most effective and appropriate manner. So,
management must give this responsibility to most responsible person in the health and social
care setting. The most important strategy in health care context is allocating power to person
which help in improving the strategies of working. In this person is responsible for any kind of
harm and managing the risk on the ground. Manager is capable for implementing quality
control system in the care home for effective result in specific period of time. Care provider of
small scale need to be more educated regarding different types of risk assessment which will
assist in making most appropriate strategy and plan.