Safeguarding Adult Enquiry Form: Risk Assessment and Analysis

This report provides an analysis of a safeguarding adults initial enquiry form in the context of the Care Act, focusing on identifying and assessing the risk of abuse to an individual named Gregor. The report details the circumstances surrounding a specific incident involving emotional and psychological abuse, including the alleged perpetrator and witness accounts. It outlines the actions taken to ensure Gregor's immediate safety and evaluates the category of abuse placing him at the greatest risk, highlighting the potential impact on his mental health. The report also addresses Gregor's capacity to consent and participate in the safeguarding process, the support required to facilitate his involvement, and the desired outcomes of the safeguarding enquiry as expressed by his representative. The aim is to minimize the risk of further abuse and improve Gregor's overall well-being through appropriate safeguarding measures and support mechanisms.

Assessment
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................1
TASK 3.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................2
TASK 4.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES.............................................................................................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTION
There may occur various types of abuse with a person which can impact on his or her mental health. Thus, it is necessary to find out risk of
abuse by doing risk assessment so that it becomes easy to minimise risk of abuse. Along with that, there are some laws and regulations as well
which are applied in case when abuse is done (Braye, and Preston-Shoot, 2019). The law include domestic violence. In this abuse is considered
as criminal offense. Moreover, the safeguarding adult process is done to protect individual from abuse within society.
This report will evaluate about safeguarding adult initial enquiry form and what type of risk abuse Gregor can face.
TASK 1
Section 42 form. This is provided for reference - the form should be downloaded from the VLE.
Task 1: Safeguarding Adults Initial Enquiry Form
This form is to be used to notify Adult Social Care of suspected or actual instances of abuse or neglect and is the
start of a Safeguarding Adults (Section 42) Enquiry under the Care Act.
This form should be completed as fully as possible in order that robust decisions can be made about the progression,
or otherwise, of the Safeguarding Adults Enquiry.
Person completing the
form:
Mr. smith Role of Person: Health care manager
Date of referral to Adult
Social Care:
5/3/21 Organisation:
Phone number: Type of service: Safeguarding
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Details of incident/suspected/actual abuse or neglect
Date of alleged
incident:
4/4/21 Who reported the
alert/concern?
Gregor friend
Time of alleged
incident:
7. p.m. Date of report: 7/4/21
Where did the incident occur? At tulse hill
Details of the adult at risk
Name: Gregor Date of Birth:
4/7/1995
Telephone: 000 Ethnicity: White
Address: 5, Avenue street, Lambeth
What is the adult’s primary reason for needing care and support? (please tick)
Physical support: Sensory support: Support with
memory and
cognition:
Learning disability
support:
Asperger’s syndrome
support:
Autism support:
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Mental health support: Social support (includes
support for carers/substance
misusers):
No support reason:
Other health condition: Please
specify:
The patient is suffering from type 2 diabetes and is over weight.
Any other details about the
adult at risk:
There is high risk of adult getting emotional or psychological abuse. In that it may happen that
Gregor is abused by nurse or other people regarding his weight or any other thing.
Details of the alleged perpetrator (where relevant)
Name: Mr. William Relationship to victim: Customer
Date of birth: 8/7/1980 Ethnicity: Christian
(1) Please give a detailed description of the incident (including times), all people involved, witnesses and any other
comments you feel are relevant. If the concern relates to physical abuse please provide a body map.
(Maximum 200 words)
It has been analysed that there occurred an incident in bakery where mr William came at 11.00 a.m. to bakery to buy a cake. He
ordered the cake and ask Gregor to deliver it quickly. But Gregor was on call and dealing with some other customer. He said mr
William to wait for some time as he was on call. However, then mr William said some abusive words to Gregor regarding his
body weight. The person who was witness of this incident was Mr. bell who was speaking to Gregor on call. He heard the entire
way by which how abusive words was spoken by Mr William (Braye, Orr, and Preston‐Shoot, 2018). This offended Gregor but he
could not do anything as he loved his job. Also, he was not able to express his views and opinion to others. Moreover, Mr
William visited bakery for many times and each time when he comes he said called Gregor as fatty man. Hence, this led to
abusing Gregor since long time. Alongside, it is found that there was no physical abuse being done by Mr William. But he made
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harsh comments in regard with body shape and size.
Type of abuse (tick all that apply):
Physical Sexual Psychological/emotional
Financial/material Neglect/omission Discriminatory
Organisational/
institutional
Self-neglect Domestic abuse/violence
Modern slavery Radicalisation/extremism Other
If other, please specify:
Is the victim at risk of further abuse/neglect? (please tick) Yes
✓
No Unknown
(2) What has been done to ensure the immediate safety of the alleged victim(s) and others? Completing and submitting
this form does not constitute management of immediate risks. (Maximum 200 words)
It is evaluated that there are some measures and action taken to ensure immediate safety of Gregor. Here, first of all safety
equipment was checked. In addition, it was ensured that no harm or injury is done to others. Besides that, behavior of victim was
observed and then it was ensured that if behavior is dangerous than victim is taken far away to a safe place. In addition, safe
place is identified victim is taken. There is also back up of police to be called if Gregor is abused. There is support network which
is there to provide social support to victim. The prevention measures are taken to reduce risk of abuse.
Apart from that, it has been ensured that when mr William arrive in bakery it is ensured that there is a friend of Gregor present
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there. He must stop William to say any abusive words to him and record entire incident. This can be used as proof by his friend
regarding abuse. It will also be helpful for Gregor to ensure that no other customer abuse him. Hence, in this way safety of
Gregor in bakery can be ensured (Cooper, and Bruin, 2017).
Were the Police called? Yes No ✓
Please provide the outcome of the Police action and Police log number (if available):
If the incident relates to domestic abuse/violence, has the
MARAC Checklist (CAADA-DASH) been completed?
Yes
✓
No
If yes, has a referral to MARAC been considered?
Please provide details, including discussions with your
agency’s Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for MARAC:
Yes
✓
No
East and mid devon
Please provide details of other agencies involved that will be able to help with the safeguarding adults enquiry:
Department of health and social care
NHS
Clinical commissioning group
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Are you aware that there have there been any previous referrals made in
relation to this adult at risk or alleged perpetrator?
Yes No
✓
If yes, please provide details (e.g. dates, type of abuse, action taken):
Are there any risks to others (other adults, children)? Yes No Unknown ✓
Please provide details (also include who this information has been shared with – e.g. Police, Children’s Social Care,
MAPPA). If there are risks to children you must notify Children’s Social Care.
Involvement of the adult(s) at risk
The following section is crucial to determining the next steps in the safeguarding adults enquiry and every attempt should be
made to complete it as fully as possible.
Has the adult(s) at risk given consent for this referral? Yes ✓ No
If no, please confirm why you have not sought consent or are overriding consent (please tick):
Public interest (risks to others) Risk of serious harm Suspected serious crime
Adult at risk lacks mental
capacity to provide consent
(best interest decision made)
Ability to consent is affected
by threatening or coercive
behaviour
Seeking consent would
increase risks to the
adult or others
Other, please provide details below:
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(3) Do you think the adult at risk has mental capacity in relation to making
decisions about their safety?
Yes No ✓
If no, has a mental capacity assessment been undertaken? Yes No ✓
Do you think the adult at risk would have substantial difficulty in
participating in the safeguarding adults process?
Yes ✓ No
If yes, is there a suitable person who could represent them?
(e.g. family member, friend, advocate)
Yes ✓ No Unknown
Please provide the name and contact details of this suitable person:
Sister of Mr. Gregor who lives with him.
Has the adult at risk’s family been informed of the concerns (where the adult
has consented to this)?
Yes No ✓
If you think the adult at risk may need support to participate in the safeguarding adults process, please provide details
of what support may be required:
Here, it is required Gregor to support in safeguarding process so that it becomes easy to ensure that all details are provided. So,
here first is social support is required which will help Gregor to share his views and opinions. Alongside, it will be useful in
sharing all details about the incident which occurred in bakery. With social support he will be able to communicate with others in
effective way. By that engagement with Gregor can be done in effective way. Social support will also help in improving mental
health of him.
Another support which is needed is emotional support by which Gregor is able to share his emotions. By showing love with him it
will help in building a relationship with him as a friend. With that his trust can be gained and then he is able to complete entire
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process. Here, Gregor views and opinions can be listened and he can be given empathy about it. So, this will be a great support
given in completion of process (Donnelly, 2019).
Thus, with these support required in safeguarding process it will be easy to share feelings of Gregor. Thus, risk to participate in
process can be minimized in it.
(For Question 3 about consent maximum 200 words)
(4) What does the adult at risk (or their representative) say that they want to happen as a result of this meeting and as a
result of a safeguarding enquiry (what are the client’s desired outcomes)? (Max words 200)
The representative of Gregor that is his sister want that safeguarding process is completed in proper way. Besides that, she
wants to support Gregor and ensure that no one abuse him for his weight. Also, she wants to improve the mental health
condition of Gregor so that his lifestyle enhances and he is able to work in proper way. The result she wants is that all risks are
identified regarding abuse and there is safe environment provided to him.
Alongside, his sister wants to enquire that if there is any abuse done than it must be reported and identified. Here, client desired
outcome is that abuse done to Gregor is determined and victim is caught. Also, no one must abuse him and the risk of abuse is
minimized. Also, safeguarding process is finished in effective way (Kingston, Eost-Telling, and Taylor, 2018). Moreover, his sister
wants that Gregor is provided social support so that his mental health improves. The result of this meeting is that finding out
conditions which can effect on risk of abuse and improve it. This is also needed to do mental assessment of Gregor and improve
his mental condition.
Signed: Date:
Printed: Time:
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TASK 2
What category of abuse is placing the person at most risk?
Gregor is placing with an abuse of psychological or emotional abuse. This abuse is related
with the mental and emotional dis-balance with the coming in approach to such words that can
affect the mental and emotional trauma. As number of rumours with regard to Gregor is taking
place including calling of police, rumours related with its marriage and many others. These will
put a psychological impact over the mental health of Gregor. It can be seen in case study that
Gregor’s said that he is tired of everyone getting on him and talking about his weight. Moreover,
he said nurses also makes holes in him. Hence, this is clearly evidence of emotional or
psychological abuse. This is abuse being done as people make fun of his weight.
This category of abuse is placing Mr Gregor at risk because it is impacting Mr Gregor with
regard to its mental health (Lonbay, and Brandon, 2017). As psychological abuse is having a
direct impact over the physical action and life of an individual so facing this emotional abuse is
having a direct impact over the health of Gregor. Being a patient of diabetes and with a follower
of hectic schedule of 4.30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and existence of such mental and psychological abuse
will lead to a creation of major health impact over Gregor. Such abuse is counted as major crime
with regard to Domestic Violence law. As under this law it is a crime to mentally abuse someone
that may put mental stress and pressure. The law defines behaviour of person if he or she is
involved in any type of abuse such as sexual, physical, emotional, etc. The law is applicable to
people who are above age of 16 or there is any relationship with each other.
There are certain interventions which can be applied to reduce emotional abuse. In this
case the cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based interventions is given on basis of one to one,
with help of a therapist who works in clinic. The clinical psychologist can identify behaviour of
Gregor’s. Here, thinking patterns of behaviour is recognising to find out problem faced by
person. Similarly, in this case also CBT intervention can be used for that. This will help in
finding out abuse. The benefit of CBT is that it helps in engaging with person (Montgomery. and
McKee, 2017). Also, it is a centred approach and focus on one’s emotion and thoughts that how
they feel or behave. Another benefit is that depression or anxiety problem is treated in effective
way with CBT. But difficulty in this is due to its structure the intervention is not suitable for
people having complicated mental health issues or behaviour. Hence, in this case as well CBT
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intervention can be applied. It will help in stopping risk emotional abuse being faced by
Gregor’s. But it is difficult to get engage with him so this is challenge to apply CBT intervention.
TASK 3
Rationale for assessment of Gregor’s mental capacity and implications of decision
It is necessary to do assessment of Gregor’s mental state so that it becomes easy to find
out what are the risk which can occur. Besides that, the main reason for doing assessment is to
identify risk of abuse that Gregor’s may face and how it can impact on his mental state.
Moreover, it is being found that Gregor’s behaviour is also disturbing. He sometime calls police
if children misbehave. This is major risk which can led to problem. Here, the children or police
can misbehave with him or they can abuse Gregor’s as he is facing learning disabilities and not
able to recognise what is being done around them. The mental state is not stable which can result
in abusing of him. If a person is at risk then he or she does not understand that what can occur.
Alongside, there is no one in his family who understand or support him. Even when he goes to
play gambling machine anyone can misbehave with him. Another things is that Gregor’s thinks
that he is going to marry someone from abroad. This behaviour is clearly a sign of concern for
him and it shows instable mental capacity (Penhale, 2020). Moreover, his GP has also said that
Gregor’s is facing some mental health issues. Besides that, he is not taking his medications
properly. Hence, such signs in behaviour shows that Gregor’s is at risk. He is not able to think
properly.
This assessment will impact on future work if person is a risk. It is because it will help
me to conduct risk assessment of Gregor’s and then on basis of that providing them care. Besides
that it will help me to take corrective actions and measures by which I will be able to maintain
and mitigate risk which can occur. Moreover, with help of assessment I can work in effective
way with Gregor’s. I can coordinate with him and also ensure that he is safe from all types of
risks.
I can also evaluate what types of risks can occur and on basis of that provide a safe
environment. In future as well I will ensure that Gregor’s is not at risk of any type of abuse. This
will help me to make a strong relation with him. In this way I can observe behaviour of him and
take feedback regarding how abuse risk can be minimised. Hence, when there is any risk as well
than Gregor’s will communicate with me and give details about what can be done. So, in step by
step way in future I can ensure that all types of risk is determined and then mitigated. Besides
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