Unit 7 - Safeguarding - LO6 - Minimise the risk of abuse Flashcards
What are the ways to minimise the risk of abuse?
- Person-centred planning
- Duty of care
- Effective record keeping
- Following policies and procedures
- Building a trusting professional relationship
- Effective communication channels
- Continuing professional development
How does person-centred planning minimise the risk of abuse?
- It enables individuals to be in control of their own safety
- It ensures workers place individuals in the centre of their care
- Value individuality
- Promote individual’s privacy and dignity
- Promote individual’s rights to independence
- Promote mutual trust and respect
- Work together in partnership
How does duty of care minimise the risk of abuse?
Professionals have a legal obligation to ensure:
- Decisions made are led by the individual’s needs, wishes and preferences
- Risks are identified and reduced
- Individuals are supported and protected from the risk of danger
- Individuals are not placed in situations that may cause harm
How does effective record keeping minimise the risk of abuse?
- Clearly identifying potential risks of harm
- Providing guidance on the actions to take when risks are identified
- Providing consistent information that is accessible by all workers who access it on a need to know basis
- Providing accurate information that can be shared between professionals who access it on a need to know basis
How does building a trusting professional relationship minimise the risk of abuse?
People who are being abused are often left feeling unsafe, fearful and suspicious of others. By building trust, workers can minimise the risk by:
- Enabling individuals to confide in them when abuse is happening
- Building mutual respect so individual feels in control of their life
- Encouraging open discussions and therefore minimising the risk of abusive relationships
How do effective communication channels minimise the risk of abuse?
- Creating an open environment where it is encouraged to discuss any concerns of abuse
- Ensuring all concerns are responded to and acted on quickly to lessen the risk and extent of abuse happening
- Diffusing situations that have the potential to cause distress and frustration and that could potentially lead to abuse occurring
How does continuing professional development minimise the risk of abuse?
Provides workers with opportunities to maintain and develop their knowledge and skills in minimising the risk by:
- Equipping them with current knowledge and practices in safeguarding
- Enabling them to identify when individuals are being abused
- Knowing about how to reduce the opportunities for abuse to occur
- Develop ways of working that reduce the likelihood of abuse happening eg. person-centred approaches
What are the strategies for developing confidence and resilience?
- Supporting positive risk taking
- Promoting active participation
- Promoting choice
- Teaching personal safety
How does supporting positive risk taking develop confidence?
- Individuals are empowered to take responsibility for their own decisions
- This leads to them becoming less dependent on others
- Being independent means its less likely for abuse to take place
How does supporting positive risk taking develop resilience?
- Individuals can take risks, make mistakes and learn from them
- Learning from mistakes means individuals are less vulnerable to abuse
How does promoting active participation develop confidence?
- Taking part results in increased wellbeing and self-esteem
* Creating partnership with others reduces the risk of abuse
How does promoting active participation develop resilience?
- Providing opportunities for individuals to participate in day-to-day tasks
- This increases the individual’s awareness of their abilities and what they can achieve, reducing their vulnerability to abuse
How does promoting choice develop confidence?
- Individuals are given options and the advantages and disadvantages to each
- Making choices means the individual is in control of their life and are less likely to be abused
How does promoting choice develop resilience?
- Supports individuals to develop their problem-solving skills when making choices
- Making positive choices will make them less vulnerable to abuse
How does teaching personal safety develop confidence?
- Providing individuals with knowledge and skills related to personal safety will give individuals a sense of ownership
- They are more involved in their own safety and will be more likely to be able to protect themselves from abusive situations
