Adult Safeguarding Flashcards
Define safeguarding
Protecting an individuals rights to live in safety free from abuse and neglect
MSP
Making safeguarding personal
How do professionals make safeguarding personal
Professionals should work with adult to establish what being safe means
Its about having a conversation with people and how we might respond in safeguarding situations in a way that enables their involvement, choice and controls
This improves their quality of life, well-being and safety
MSP achieves a practice that has meaningful improvement to People’s lives rather than just being a process
Nobody can be assumed to lack capacity for a decision or have a decision overruled by professionals
Who needs to be involved in safeguarding concerns
Health care providers
External bodies : police, training, staff, supervision
5 aims of safeguarding
- Prevent harm and reduce risk of abuse or neglect to adults with care
- Stop abuse and neglect wherever possible
- Address what has caused abuse or neglect
- All providers core responsibility in HSC is to provide safe effective and high quality care
- Raise public awareness so that communities alongside professions play a part in preventing identifying and responding to abuse and neglect
6 principles of safeguarding
EPPPPA
1. Empowerment - people encouraged to make their own decisions and give informed consent
2. Prevention - better to take action before mistreatment occurs
3. Proportionality - least intrusive response necessary to the risk presented
4. Protection - support those in need
5. Partnership - working in partnerships to achieve local solutions in communities
6. Accountability - transparency in delivering safeguarding and fulfilling our duty of candour
State the Well being principles
- personal dignity
- control over daily life
- physical mental health and emotional wellbeing
- Domestic and personal relationships
- Social and economic wellbeing
- Suitability of living conditions
- should be assumes that people are best placed to judge their own well being
Decision making and capacity
- adults have mental capacity to make informed decisions about their lives, regardless of their medical conditions , age or appearance ,
- if someone is assessed as not having capacity to make specific decision those decisions are made in the best interests set out by the mental capacity act
What should adults with care needs be given to make decisions ?
Given info, advice and support in a form they understand
And have all their views included to make decisions about their lives
How should decisions made by HSC professionals be made …
- timely
-reasonable
-recorded
-justified
-ethical
-proportionate
Who does the adult safeguarding duty apply to ?
- aged over 18
-needs for care and suppport
-experiencing risk of abuse or neglect
-unable to protect themselves must be as a result of their care and support needs
How do you know if someone lacks capacity ?
Nobody has to prove that they have capacity for a decision
It is up to the person who wants to take over someone’s decision making rights to prove they lack capacity
Assessments of capacity must be decision and time specific
The person must lack the capacity to make a specific decision at the time needed
What is abuse or neglect
Any forms of harm that needs to be identified and responded to appropriately to make sure harm can be stopped to reduce the likelihood of it recurring
How can patterns of abuse vary
- serial and organised abuse
- long term abuse in ongoing relationships
-opportunistic abuse such as theft occurring due to money lying around
What is a repeated incident of poor quality of care describes as?
Organisational abuse
- indication of abuse that has taken place even if you don’t witness an event occurring