Safeguarding of Vulnerable People: Effective Strategies for Health and Safety

This dissertation explores the effective strategies for ensuring health, safety, and safeguarding of vulnerable people throughout their lifespan. It discusses the role of healthcare practitioners and the impact of these strategies on safeguarding.

Dissertation

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................4
Chapter 1: Introduction....................................................................................................................5
Overview of the research........................................................................................................5
Background of the research....................................................................................................5
Research aim..........................................................................................................................5
Research objectives................................................................................................................5
Research questions.................................................................................................................6
Rationale of the research........................................................................................................6
Chapter 2: Literature Review...........................................................................................................6
The basic knowledge related to health, safety and safeguarding in life.................................6
The effective strategies for ensuring proper health, safety and safeguarding throughout the
lifespan...................................................................................................................................7
The role of healthcare practitioners in terms of health, safety and safeguarding of people
through their lives...................................................................................................................8
Chapter 3: Research methodology...................................................................................................9
Chapter 4: Data Analysis and Interpretation..................................................................................10
Chapter 5: Discussion....................................................................................................................23
Chapter 6: Conclusion and Recommendations..............................................................................23
References......................................................................................................................................24

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report is based on the safeguarding of vulnerable people. In this, the understanding
about safeguarding among people including different and effective strategies is discussing that
benefit people throughout their lifespan. Moreover, the role of healthcare practitioners is also
stated in this that provides safety health and safeguarding to people. In addition to this, the
impact of these strategies is also discussed in this report that is occur in safeguarding. There are
various risk factors are also occur which prevent in safeguarding of people. The impact of these
factors is also covered in this.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Overview of the research
The health, safety and safeguarding refers to attempt of practices to make sure about own
health as well as security. It includes to take proper precautions to maintain health and take
effective safety measures for self safeguarding (Chisnell and Kelly, 2019). However, people
conduct various practices for these aspects like visiting hospitals, take medicines, intake proper
balanced diet, physical exercise, maintain hygiene and so on. In addition to this, healthcare
professionals plays an important role in terms of making citizens aware of healthy habits and
activities through they can avoid infections, diseases or health issue for remaining healthy as
well as safe. Moreover, the safeguarding practices consist to take safety measures like crossing
roads carefully, follow traffic rules to avoid accidents and avoid harmful substance intake to
maintain health & safety (Nickel and Lungfiel, 2018).
Background of the research
Health and safety measures are intake throughout the lifespan of an individual. Initially, it
consist to careful handling the newborn baby with proper supporting clothes and cushions to
maintain their safety. However, parents take care of toddlers to make sure that they should not
eat something harmful or go nearby stairs. It has been analysed that elders to ensure about
interaction of children with other people that they should not be wrong company (Wong, 2018).
Meanwhile, it is observed that small symptoms of a child is quickly notices and immediately
consult with registered physician and get antibiotics injections when require to maintain their
health & safety. The adults and middle aged people take precautions by their own to avoid health
problems, injuries, incidents or accidents to safeguard them (El and Bouabdallah, 2018).
Research aim
“To analyse the effective strategies which impact on health, safety and safeguarding
through the lifespan.”
Research objectives
 To identify the basic knowledge related to health, safety and safeguarding in life.
 To evaluate the effective strategies for ensuring proper health, safety and safeguarding
throughout the lifespan.

 To analyse the role of healthcare practitioners in terms of health, safety and safeguarding
of people through their lives.
Research questions
 How to identify the basic knowledge related to health, safety and safeguarding in life?
 What are the effective strategies for ensuring proper health, safety and safeguarding
throughout the lifespan?
 How to analyse the role of healthcare practitioners in terms of health, safety and
safeguarding of people through their lives?
Rationale of the research
In context of this investigation, it is important to carry out study to evaluate more
effective as well as efficient strategies which are suitable to ensure health, safety and
safeguarding of an individual throughout their lifespan (Stewart and MacIntyre, 2017). It is
observed that many of people are not aware about potential precautions due to which they have
faced severe health issue or injuries. However, it is significant to identify appropriate practices
which can be further converted in guidelines for people to maintain their health and safety in
proper manner. Moreover, it is essential to evaluate more innovative actions which plays an
important role to ensure health, safety and safeguarding within the entire lifespan of human
beings (Petti, 2018).
Chapter 2: Literature Review
The basic knowledge related to health, safety and safeguarding in life
The health, safety and safeguarding of an individual is mostly depends upon their own
regular activities and practices. As per views given by Acharya (2019), it includes the fact that
injuries of health problems can be easily prevented with the help of taking several precautions
related to diet, intake of other substances and conduct different activities on daily basis.
However, it has been analysed that an individual has number of duties regarding their health
safety that are mentioned here. Initially, it is necessary to carry out proper assessment of related
risk factors along with evaluating effective ways to overcome with the same. Secondly, it is
required to maintain health & safety at work place by applying appropriate methods or
procedures including secure equipments. Thirdly, it is important render accurate information,
knowledge, learning and training in regards to secure working techniques along with maintain

healthy working environment (Damaraju, 2017). It is essential to make sufficient availability of
safety devices and equipment along with promoting effective cooperation between staff members
for ensuring about maintenance of safety at work place. The risk factor of individuals can be
occur from different factors such as optimization in state of health, poorly development of
economic factor, etc. The safeguarding is highly necessary in children as they are more prone to
abuse and neglect. There are many children who are living with their non-biological parents in
which the risk of abuse is occur. The adult and young person faces neglect and abuse from their
surroundings. As the highly attracted to their surroundings which involve them to take part in
various activities which harm their safeguarding (Arrey, 2019). The use of substance and other is
also a risk factor in safeguarding people and their friends or family. The culture and social factor
also cause neglect and abuse in the life of people which develops dress in their development of
physically, emotionally and mentally. The social factors include unemployment discrimination
which develops risk of neglect among people and it is also a threat of safeguarding people as it
also developed several barriers among individuals from which they cannot develop properly.
The effective strategies for ensuring proper health, safety and safeguarding throughout the
lifespan
According to the Harlow and Smith (2016), the effective strategies should be applied by
everyone in their lives for maintaining health, safety and safeguarding within entire life. It
includes more effective as well as efficient practices which ate mentioned here. Firstly, people
should follow healthy lifestyle which must contain intake of healthy diet, regular exercise,
regular check-ups, avoid harmful substances etc. Secondly, a person is required to remain
focussed and careful while carrying out any kind of tasks regularly to avoid relevant injuries or
incidents for safeguarding themselves. There are also different strategies that are developed by
non-Government and government authorities. They implement different laws and legislation for
the welfare of people so that they can reduce abuse and neglect among them. Their aim is to
deliver safeguarding two people from their lifespan so that their proper health and wellbeing can
be achieved. The implementation of this factor reduces the risk of harm that develops due to
various other factors which are related to individual’s life. There are some factors occur from
which individuals are related with their life (Greer, 2016). These factors are economic social
physical and biological which people are vulnerable. The people must understand this factor so
that they can reduce abuse in their life. As these factors required proper attention like

maintaining diet, exercise and other from which we can maintain their health and safeguarding in
their entire life. The individual must consider there safeguarding principles while receiving any
services from health and social care services. This also helps them in enhancing their safety,
safeguarding and health. The individual must also adapt various policies that are implemented
for safeguarding them. The individual needs to understand the importance of diet exercise and
other factors within their life so that they can avoid different incidents in order to safeguarding
themselves. The following up these strategies can help in ensuring proper safety, health and
safeguarding of people in through their lives (Seale, 2017).
The role of healthcare practitioners in terms of health, safety and safeguarding of people through
their lives
Northway and et. al. (2017) states that the healthcare practitioners plays an important role
in terms of providing desired information to citizens to take precautions in order to secure them
from various infections or diseases. It includes that they put efforts to evaluate the symptoms and
cause behind occurred health problem and provide appropriate care services to make an
individual diseases free. However, they follow ethical principles such as informed consent,
beneficence, trust & honesty to avoid clinical mistakes and improve patient experiences.
Meanwhile, care professional carefully follow legislation for safeguarding people including The
Children Act 1989, The Children and Social Work Act 2017, The Care Act 2014, The
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 etc. Moreover, it consist utilise of effective principles
to maintain health and safety of individuals by considering Empowerment, Prevention,
Proportionality, Protection, Partnership and Accountability (Chisnell and Kelly, 2019). There are
some principles of safeguarding occur which are needed to be consider. This provides
understanding about safeguarding of health and safety of individuals. These principles include
empowerment, prevention and proportionality. The empowerment provides understanding that
people should have power so that they can make their own decisions. Their decisions are
significant to be supported by others. The prevention of harm, abuse and neglect is a highly
productive and preventive principle for vulnerable people before happening of it. It is necessary
to make safeguarding in a proportional manner. This should not be occur as over intrusive in life
of vulnerable individuals, families and their surroundings. There are various people who need
safeguarding so provide them fully protection so that their mental physical health can be
influenced. The communities, local authorities and businesses that are related with health and

social care must play significant role in partnership so that they can reduce abuse and neglect.
They can play their role by detecting the cause of harm and reporting it. This provides
sustainability of prevention from harm abuse and neglect among people by providing them safety
including their health. The implementation of these various acts also provide effective strategies
among health and social Care organization from which they can deliver proper safeguarding to
people. The help of such acts, the health care practitioner can provide safeguarding two people
for their life span by considering their needs and requirements (Wong, 2018). These acts have
some limitations from which secure and safe environment can be developed that provide high
quality of services among people by healthcare professionals. The healthcare professionals can
also conduct various seminar and inspection from which we can regularly assess the impact of
factors on people. This helps them in providing safeguarding to vulnerable people (Boggis,
2018).
Chapter 3: Research methodology
Qualitative research methods will be focussed in order to analyse study about effective
strategies of safeguarding to gain appropriate findings. It is favourable because of gaining in-
depth details about the selected research problems which provide support to achieve accurate
results (Glesne, 2016). However, it is focussed on the characteristics of target population which
is more suitable to carry out this investigation.
Data sources: There are two types of data resources are occur that are primary and
secondary. The primary resources provide information by structure questionnaire and this is
occur from newly information. The secondary sources provide information from data that are
already occur.
Ethical consideration: At time of conducting research, it is necessary to conduct
primary and secondary research in an appropriate manner. So while conducting research it is
necessary to consider ethics so that confidentiality informed consent beneficence and autonomy
can be considered. The researcher must follow ethical consideration in both primary and
secondary research (Acharya, 2019).
Sampling: This is an effective process for selecting sample size within research. The
sampling occur in in two manner which are probability and nonprobability. In this research, the
sample size in select on random basis is 40 respondents will be selected.

Chapter 4: Data Analysis and Interpretation
Gantt chart: - This refers to a tool that provides representation about schedule which assists
in coordination track and plan specific task within a project (Scholl, 2018). It is a horizontal bar
chart which was developed by Henry L. Gantt.

The questionnaire is used to carry out research which helps in determine data and
information of subject. In this, numbers of questions are made so that better outcomes can be
developed.
Questionnaire
Q1) Are you understand about safeguarding?
a) Yes
b) No
Q2) What are the importance of providing safeguarding to people?
a) prevention from harm
b) influence physical health
c) influence mental health

Q3) Does effective strategies help in safeguarding people?
a) Agree
b) Disagree
Q4) how the impact of strategies occur in vulnerable of people in their life?
a) Positive
b) Negative
c) Neutral
Q5) how strategies ensure health and safeguarding of vulnerable people?
a) making healthy lifestyle
b) focus on different task
Q6) Is the other method in health and social care of services provides safeguarding to people?
a) Yes
b) No
Q7) Does practitioner plays significant role in providing safeguarding to people and their friends
and families?
a) Strongly agree
b) Agree
c) Strongly disagree
d) Neutral
Q8) does the ethical principles in safeguarding help in providing safeguarding to individuals?
a) Yes
b) No
c) Neutral
Q9) what is the most risk occur of safeguarding people?
a) Social factor
b) emotional factor
c) biological factor
The data analysis is alternative method which is used by researcher. This method helps to
researcher in determining quantitative data of research. The quantitative data analysis demands
some steps such as frequency table, graph representation and interpretation.

Frequency Table
Q1) Are you understand about safeguarding? Frequency
a) Yes 30
b) No 10
Q2) What are the importance of providing safeguarding to people? Frequency
a) prevention from harm 15
b) influence physical health 10
c) influence mental health 15
Q3) Does effective strategies help in safeguarding people? Frequency
a) Agree 35
b) Disagree 5
Q4) how the impact of strategies occur in vulnerable of people in their
life?
Frequency
a) Positive 30
b) Negative 4
c) Neutral 6
Q5) how strategies ensure health and safeguarding of vulnerable
people?
Frequency
a) making healthy lifestyle 26
b) focus on different task 14
Q6) Is the other method in health and social care of services provides
safeguarding to people?
Frequency
a) yes 24
b) no 16
Q7) Does practitioner plays significant role in providing safeguarding to
people and their friends and families?
Frequency
a) Strongly agree 15
b) Agree 20
c) Strongly disagree 2
d) neutral 3
Q8) does the ethical principles in safeguarding help in providing Frequency

safeguarding to individuals?
a) yes 30
b) no 5
c) neutral 5
Q9) what is the most risk occur of safeguarding people? Frequency
a) Social factor 16
b) emotional factor 14
c) biological factor 10

Data interpretation
Theme 1: the understanding about safeguarding.
Q1) Are you understand about safeguarding? Frequency
a) Yes 30
b) No 10
Interpretation: It is determined from the above graph that, 30 restaurants know about
safeguarding while 10 respondents does not know about safeguarding. As the majority of people
are highly connected to surrounding which provides them understanding about it.
Theme 2: the importance of providing safeguarding to people.
Q2) What are the importance of providing safeguarding to people? Frequency
a) prevention from harm 15
b) influence physical health 10
c) influence mental health 15

Interpretation: It is ascertained from above graphics is that, The 15 respondents believe
that the importance of providing safeguarding is that prevention from harm. The other 10
respondents believe that it influence physical health in individual. While The other 15 consider
that it influence mental health.
Theme 3: effectiveness of strategies help in safeguarding people.
Q3) Does effective strategies help in safeguarding people? Frequency
a) Agree 35
b) Disagree 5

Interpretation: It is interpreted from above that, the 35 respondents agrees that there are
effective strategies that help in safeguarding people. While the remaining 5 disagree about the
effectiveness of strategies that provides safeguarding. As the majority of people are in influence
of safeguarding which makes them agree about it.
Theme 4: the impact of strategies occurs in vulnerable of people in their life.
Q4) how the impact of strategies occur in vulnerable of people in their life? Frequency
a) Positive 30
b) Negative 4
c) Neutral 6
Interpretation: It is determined from the above presented graph, the impact of strategy is
considered differently as 30 respondents consider it positive while 4 are negative about it. The
remaining 6 respondents are neutral about the impact of strategies in their life. This has been
occur as the effectiveness of safeguarding occur as positively on some people while it occur
negatively on some because they are not aware about the importance of it.
Theme 5: strategies that ensure health and safeguarding of vulnerable people.
Q5) how strategies ensure health and safeguarding of vulnerable people? Frequency
a) making healthy lifestyle 26
b) focus on different task 14

Interpretation: Following graph state that, The 26 respondents believe that
implementation of strategies can sure safeguarding by making their healthy lifestyle. While the
other 14 respondents believe that by focusing on different task it can ensure your health and
safety of people.
Theme 6: the other methods of services of act in health and social care provide safeguarding
to people.
Q6) Is the other methods of services of act in health and social care
provides safeguarding to people?
Frequency
a) yes 24
b) no 16

Interpretation: The given graphical represent that, The 24 respondents refers that there
are other methods of services are occur from act from which safeguarding can be provided to
vulnerable people. The 16 refers that there are no other methods of services as there is only acts
on which safeguarding can be properly provided to people. As the major people experience other
methods which impact positively on their life.
Theme 7: the practitioner plays significant role in providing safeguarding to people and their
friends and families.
Q7) Does practitioner plays significant role in providing safeguarding to
people and their friends and families?
Frequency
a) Strongly agree 15
b) Agree 20
c) Strongly disagree 2
d) neutral 3

Interpretation: It is interpreted from above that, The 15 respondents believes that the
petitioner plays important role in delivering safeguarding while the other 20 respondents are
agree on this. From the remaining 2 respondents are strongly disagree from this and 3 of are
neutral.
Theme 8: the ethical principles in safeguarding help in providing safeguarding to individuals.
Q8) does the ethical principles in safeguarding help in providing
safeguarding to individuals?
Frequency
a) yes 30
b) no 5
c) neutral 5

Interpretation: Following graph state that, The 30 respondents believes that ethical
principle is important in providing safeguarding to individuals. From the above respondents the
remaining 5 are disagree on this. The other 5 are neutral about ethical principles of safeguarding.
Theme 9: the most risk occurs of safeguarding people.
Q9) what is the most risk occur of safeguarding people? Frequency
a) Social factor 16
b) emotional factor 14
c) biological factor 10

Interpretation: The given graphical represent that, The 16 respondents believe that mainly
risk of safeguarding occurs from social factor. While the other 14 respondents consider that
emotional factor is a cause of risk in safeguarding. The biological factor as a risk is considered
by remaining 10 respondents. The each people are vulnerable to different factors which develop
risk in their life from which they consider this as risk factors.

Chapter 5: Discussion
The purpose of this report is to interpret the the importance of safeguarding among people.
In this, it has been find out that there are some people who have understanding about
safeguarding and the impact of it considered as positively. While there are some people who
disagree on the strategies of safeguarding and consider it as negative impact. This is inside in the
problem that this has to be considered significantly so that each people can understand the
importance of safeguarding to them.
Chapter 6: Conclusion and Recommendations
From the above report it has been concluded that it is necessary for people to have
knowledge about safeguarding so that they can prevent themselves from harm and abuse. There
are also various effective strategy are occur which insurance about safety health and
safeguarding of people throughout their lifespan. As there are different strategies that are used in
safeguarding people and also help in determine the impact of it. The health care practitioners also
plays important role in providing safeguarding to individuals. Moreover, the implementation of
various strategies is an effective approach among individuals from which they can safeguard
themselves from harm, abuse and neglect.
It has been recommended from above report is that people need to have understanding about
safeguarding so that they can understand the importance of it. They also need to understand
about strategies that occur in safeguarding so that impact of it can be occur in a positive manner.
As these strategies and sure safeguarding and health of people by making their lifestyle healthy
and on different task. In addition to this the practitioners also plays important role in
safeguarding to vulnerable people. The occurrence of ethical principles also provides
safeguarding to people. The risk of safeguarding can be a call from various factors so the
individuals must need to understand all of it.

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