Unit 02: Safeguarding and Protecting Vulnerable Individuals

Unit 02: Safeguarding and
Protecting Vulnerable Indi-
viduals
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Table of contents
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1. Details of concept of safeguarding and protection..................................................................3
2. Information about legislative framework for safeguarding vulnerable individuals in health
and social care..............................................................................................................................4
3. Analysis of ways in which serious case reviews have influenced safeguarding and
protection. Explanation of actions that can be taken in the event of suspected or actual abuse..5
4. Analysis of ways in which service provision supports individuals take risks and make
informed choices..........................................................................................................................6
5. Information on signs and symptoms of abuse.........................................................................6
6. Measures to be taken to avoid abuse taking place...................................................................7
7. Practice that maintains the safety and protection of vulnerable individuals...........................8
1. An explanation of the agreed protocols for working in partnership........................................9
2. An evaluation of the importance of working in partnership with others in relation to
safeguarding...............................................................................................................................10
3. An assessment of the importance of the involvement of individuals in the review of systems
and procedures in services.........................................................................................................11
4. A review of a work setting procedures and practice against current legislation and policy in
relation to safeguarding and protecting vulnerable individuals.................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
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MAIN BODY
TASK 1
1. Details of concept of safeguarding and protection
Safeguarding: Safeguarding is a concept of identifying measures that can be used to
protect the health, well-being and human rights of individuals that help vulnerable people to live
free from abuse, neglect, and harm. It can also be said that Safeguarding is a concept which is
used for protecting vulnerable people including children, young adults or vulnerable adults so
that they can remain safe in all types of situations and from all kinds of abuse whether it is verbal
or physical (Smikle, 2017). There are various kinds of frameworks that have been developed for
such people so that they can be provided protection and can be safeguarded in an appropriate
manner for prevention of occurrence of negative outcomes in tried and tested manner.
Safeguarding is one of the most important concepts in health and social care. Government of UK
has developed enacted legislation and have also published guidance for protecting vulnerable
people. Most of the care homes in UK provide training to their employees for protecting such
adults and children. All the professional carers majorly focus upon empowerment, prevention,
protection, partnership and accountability of safeguarding adults and children. Care Act, 2014
helps in identifying roles and responsibilities of professional carers for safeguarding children and
adults who are vulnerable.
Protection: Protection is another most commonly known concept in health and social
care sector for protecting people against any kind of abuse, environmental risk protection,
infection protection, patient right protection, protection against any kind of harmful disease or
infection and provision of many other kinds of protection (Godoy and et.al., 2020). Concept of
protection helps in understanding measures that can be taken to provide protection to patient so
that safety of patient can be enhanced and safety of patients at all providers and collaborative
practises can be maintained. It is one of the most important and primary responsibility of health
and social care providers to focus upon protection of patient till they get discharged from health
and social care settings.
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2. Information about legislative framework for safeguarding vulnerable individuals in health and
social care
There are various kinds of legislative frameworks that have been developed for
safeguarding vulnerable individuals in health and social care settings. However in terms of
protecting vulnerable individuals’ legislative framework only helps in provision of guidelines
with respect to rights and services of vulnerable individuals. Some of the most important
legislative framework that helps in safeguarding vulnerable individuals in health and social care
are:
Care Standard Act, 2000: This act focuses upon identifying requirements of care providers in
order to ensure that they have proper and effective procedure in place in providing protection to
adults who are at risk of any kind of harm or abuse whether it is verbal or physical (Asghar and
et.al., 2017).
Care Act, 2014: This Act refers to safeguarding vulnerable adults by outlining main roles and
responsibilities of health and social care practitioners when protecting vulnerable adults. This act
helps in identifying role of local authorities who have primary responsibility in providing
protection to vulnerable adults and should work in partnership with other health and social care
organizations. This act laid emphasis upon overall wellbeing of all vulnerable adults rather than
providing basic protection and safety. Main primary principles of this act are: empowerment,
prevention, proportionality, protection, partnership, and accountability.
Safeguarding vulnerable groups Act, 2006: Main aim of this act is to ensure that people who are
not suitable for working with vulnerable individuals do not end up working with them such as
people with criminal background, history of abuse, exploitation etc (Duffy and et.al., 2017).
Such kind of people are checked when anyone applies for a job with vulnerable adults.
Health and social care act, 2008: This act helps in strengthening protection of people who are
vulnerable and are using residential care. This is done by ensuring that any kind of care home
that provide accommodations together nursing or personal care on behalf of local authority are
subject to Huma Rights Act, 1998.
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