A11 Flashcards
Safeguarding
Protecting an individuals health, well-being and human rights allowing them to live free from abuse, neglect and harm
Most in need or protection
-children
-young adults
-vulnerable individuals
Six safeguarding principles
-empowerment
-prevention
-protection
-partnership
-accountability
-proportionality
Empowerment
Individuals should be supported to make their own decisions based on the best possible information
Prevention
Better to take action before harm occurs
Proportionality
Actions should be proportionate to the risk, being overprotective can disadvantage service users to be able to make their own decisions
Protection
Service users who are in greatest need of support and protection
Partnership
Working with a range of professionals, groups and communities to prevent, detect and report neglect or abuse
Accountability
Healthcare professionals need to be accountable for any activities in relation to safeguarding
Mental capacity act 2005 amendment 2019
It strengthens and protects the rights of people who wish to plan for the future in the event of becoming incapacitated as well as the rights of those who currently lack capacity
Care act 2014
The care act underlines the importance of protecting the most vulnerable in society from harm, abuse and neglect
Health and social care act 2012
It enables patients to be able to choose services which best mate that means including from charity or independent sector providers, provided they may NHS costs. This act is intended to empower patients to make choices
Safeguarding vulnerable groups act 2006
This act works closely with the police and helps to safeguard both adults and children from harm and abuse by preventing unsuitable people I’m working with vulnerable adults and children.
This involves:
-Processing request for criminal record checks by searching police records
-Deciding whether is appropriate for a person to be placed on or removed from a barred list
-Hey some people on the DBS children’s barred lists and adults barred list for England Wales and Northern Ireland
NICE guidance and quality standards
The guide aims to reduce abuse and suggest that were here to gather with agencies in a multiagency partnership is the best solution. NICE gives advice on training and suggest that ongoing support from within an organisation is also needed for individual practitioners
The quality standards expected from NICE
-Harm from domestic violence and abuse
-Morality from domestic violence and abuse
-Emergency attendances for domestic violence and abuse
-Quality of life
-Personal safety
-Duration of domestic violence and abuse
-Recurrence of domestic violence and abuse
NHS England guide
NHS England produce a pocket guide called safeguarding adults designed to help healthcare professionals working with adults to recognise signs of use which they might see in their patients who are receiving care
Topics covered in the pocket guide
-The care act in relation to safeguarding
-Healthcare staffs responsibilities
-The role of the member of staff raising abuse along the abuse alarm
- Information sharing
- The mental capacity act 2005
-Assessing capacity chart
- Domestic violence and abuse
- Female genital mutilation
-Human trafficking
-Modern slavery
Factors that contribute to abuse
-Women
-People from black, Asian minority ethnic backgrounds
-Children
-Young people
-Elderly people
-Pregnant woman and those with young children
-People with mental or physical disabilities
-People who speak English as an additional language
-People affected by substance misuse
-LGBTQ individuals
-People with poor literacy skills
Physical abuse includes
-Female genital mutilation ~ When a females external genitals are deliberately removed, cut or injured for non-medical reasons
-Hitting ~ If someone deliberately hurt another person by hitting a slapping them, this is a form of physical abuse
-Burns ~ Burns could be non-accidental which means they were infected by someone else
Modern day slavery
Victims or deceived or coerced into work working, having been promised a better life and the opportunity to earn money for themselves and their families. Instead, they end up working for individuals who threaten them and they use violence against them
Sexual
Generally the motivation for sexual abuse is about more than just sex and it’s common with other forms of abuse, is about the perpetrator trying to exert control or dominance over the person who they are abusing
Sexual contact is where the abuser makes physical contact with the individual which includes
-Sexual touching of any part of an individuals body whether they are clothed or not
-Using a body part of object to rape an individual
-Forcing an individual to take part in sexual activities
-Making an individual undress or touch someone else
Non-sexual contact abuse is when individual is abused without being touched by the abuser which includes
-Exposing or flashing
-Showing pornography
-Exposing an individual to sexual acts
-Making them masturbate
-Forcing an individual to make, view or share abuse images or videos
-Making, viewing or distributing abuse images or videos
-Forcing an individual to take part in sexual activities