Analysis of Safeguarding Strategies in Health and Social Care Settings

This report delves into the critical aspects of safeguarding in health and social care settings, focusing on the identification of risk factors associated with abuse, including social, cultural, health, and economic factors such as unemployment, health issues, social isolation, and discrimination. It differentiates between various forms of abuse, including sexual and physical abuse, and explores working practices and strategies employed to minimize such incidents. The report highlights key elements like professional oversight, the Health Care Standard Act 2010, and the importance of reducing risk factors through training and development. Furthermore, it discusses the role of safeguarding practices, the Equality Act 2010, and the strengths and weaknesses of existing legislation like the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 in ensuring patient safety and protection within healthcare environments. The analysis underscores the need for comprehensive strategies to prevent and manage abuse effectively, ensuring the well-being of vulnerable individuals in care settings.

Safeguarding in Health & Social Care
Hill croft can use existing working practices and strategies
which will help them to minimise their abuses activities
effectively. Domestic abuse is one of them in which a
person abuse someone else for the same at domestic level
(Lewney and Boland, 2015). There are practices and
strategies which can be used to minimise all the levels of
abuse efficiently.
DIFFERENT FORM OF ABUSE
Sexual abuse: There are different kind of abuses and one of them is sexual abuse
which include, indecent exposure, sexual harassment, inappropriate touching and
looking at any person living in the care home.
Physical abuse: Physical abuse is a stage where the workers treat any people
physically in terms of hitting, not giving food, punishment and more other
activities. These things affect the old age people mentally as well.
There are many risk factors associated with the incidence of abuse and one
of them is social and cultural factors which has an impact on different abuse
and harm effectively.
Unemployment: It can be said that poor people who doest not have power
of money are vulnerable to abuse. Unemployment people are frustrated in
nature that they acquire the nature of abusing effectively.
Health: Health is also a issue which has an impact on abuse or harm that
patients who are dependent on others are vulnerable to abuse (Butler and
Manthorpe, 2016). Thus, the family members and care takers do not want to
waste their money in treating such people.
Social isolation: There are members in the family who are isolated from
the societies does not have any emotions which is required to take care of
such people. Thus, they do not feel any obligation which leads to the
abusing factors.
Discrimination: Discrimination in gender, age, race, religion and colour
also leads to different abuses and harms. This also leads towards the
separation of the people from the societies effectively.
There are so many working practices and strategies
used by management in order to minimise the abuse
from health and social care. In order to do that some
are discussed below:
Professional: Professionals are the supervisory line
managers which works for keeping an eye on workers
and operational activities at Hill croft nursing home.
Health Care Standard Act 2010: The act is define
as the provision of regulation and legislation which
take stands for providing medical, health and care,
social organisation and voluntary firms.
Reduce risk factor: Risk factors which are
associated with the incidence of abuse or self harm
are divided in three categories such as social or
environmental factors, family factors and individual
factors.
Training and development: The patients will
improve and develop towards their abusing activities
which will help them to stand up for such preventing
obligations effectively.
Safeguarding: Safeguarding is
a term which is based on
providing health and social
care services which will help
patients to ensure their
securities and protection
against illegal activity.
Safeguarding is a responsibility
for everyone (Millar, Chambers
and Giles, 2016). It help
patients by providing
protection from maltreatment.
There are number of strategies and practices will
be used by the Hill croft nursing home in order
to control and manage the abuse effectively.
Patients in the firm will ensure their safety and
protection.
Equality act 2010: The management should maintain the
equality between patients to avoid the inconveniences.
patients have legal rights to claim against inequality.
Equality should be in sex, age, work, health and safety issues
and time (Ottosdottir and Evans, 2014). This will help
management to remove discrimination between patients
effectively and also to make proper and appropriate
decisions.
Strengths: There are lot of benefits from which the Hill croft nursing home
provide effective and essential services towards their patients. The Safeguarding
vulnerable groups act 2006 is made by the government in order to prevent and
protect the group of vulnerable from such people who are dependent on others or
not eligible to work with these peoples effectively.
Weaknesses: The disadvantage of this law that there is no method from which the
workers are investigated that weather they are doing their duty effectively or not in
the take care home (Police, 2015). The other disadvantage is that it is difficult to
know the workers intension at Hill croft nursing home. This will prevent patients
towards their securities and safety as well effectively.
Safeguarding: Safeguarding is a term which is based on
providing health and social care services which will help
patients to ensure their securities and protection against
illegal activity. Safeguarding is a responsibility for
everyone (Millar, Chambers and Giles, 2016). It helps
patients by providing protection from maltreatment.