Safeguarding Adults Unit 11
Safeguarding Adults
All vulnerable adults have the right to be safeguarded by any form abuse, local authorities, care provides, health services, housing providers, criminal justice agencies, laws, and legislations all play an important role when it comes to safeguarding. The aim to prevent abuse, minimise risks of abuse and to respond appropriately if abuse or neglect has occurred. Abuse can happen in various different forms. The two types I’m focusing on are neglect and omission. Neglect or acts of omission means not looking after somebody properly or giving them the care and attention they need. Domestic violence however, is a pattern of abusive behaviours by one partner against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation. There are legislations, regulations, working strategies and procedures in place to prevent these types of abuse.
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 was set up to stop contact with vulnerable adults and children and people that can cause them harm. The ‘barring’ part of the act came into force in October 2009. This act has many principles to reduce the risk of abuse to adults. One of these is that people that are unsuitable for working with these types of people should be barred. This is why it is against the law under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act for anyone who is deemed unsuitable shouldn’t be working with them. Employers should be able to check if anyone is on the barring list for working with vulnerable adults so that it would be so much easier to check peoples records when looking to hire them for a job within this sector. This act also states that suitability checks should not just be ‘one offs’ and that they should be ongoing assessments to make sure that everything is checked over before they start working with these types of people. This makes it extremely hard for an inappropriate person to seep through the rules and regulations to
All vulnerable adults have the right to be safeguarded by any form abuse, local authorities, care provides, health services, housing providers, criminal justice agencies, laws, and legislations all play an important role when it comes to safeguarding. The aim to prevent abuse, minimise risks of abuse and to respond appropriately if abuse or neglect has occurred. Abuse can happen in various different forms. The two types I’m focusing on are neglect and omission. Neglect or acts of omission means not looking after somebody properly or giving them the care and attention they need. Domestic violence however, is a pattern of abusive behaviours by one partner against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation. There are legislations, regulations, working strategies and procedures in place to prevent these types of abuse.
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 was set up to stop contact with vulnerable adults and children and people that can cause them harm. The ‘barring’ part of the act came into force in October 2009. This act has many principles to reduce the risk of abuse to adults. One of these is that people that are unsuitable for working with these types of people should be barred. This is why it is against the law under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act for anyone who is deemed unsuitable shouldn’t be working with them. Employers should be able to check if anyone is on the barring list for working with vulnerable adults so that it would be so much easier to check peoples records when looking to hire them for a job within this sector. This act also states that suitability checks should not just be ‘one offs’ and that they should be ongoing assessments to make sure that everything is checked over before they start working with these types of people. This makes it extremely hard for an inappropriate person to seep through the rules and regulations to