The Aims of Safeguarding
The Aims of Safeguarding
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This session will cover the training required for safeguarding adults for all staff.
As training for safeguarding adults is usually tailored to each specific working environment, dependent on which area or group within the NHS that you work in, there may be elements of your training that are not covered here; alternatively, there may be others covered here that are not relevant to you.
In such cases, where you are unsure of whether something applies to your role or workplace, then you must refer to local policy or procedures.
Adult Safeguarding is Everyone's Business
Organisations should always promote the adult’s well-being in their safeguarding arrangements.
Professionals should work with the adult to establish what being safe means to them and how that can be best achieved. This is known as Making Safeguarding Personal.
Professionals and other staff should not be advocating safety measures that do not take account of individual well-being, as defined in Section 1 of the Care Act.
Nobody can be assumed to lack capacity for a decision, or have their decision otherwise overruled by professionals, simply on the grounds that others think their decision is unwise.
Who needs to be involved in safeguarding concerns?
Health and social care providers' core responsibility is to provide safe, effective and high quality care.
Safeguarding concerns will require an array of responses including a provider or other agency enquiry, a disciplinary process, a clinical governance response from within or by external bodies, the involvement of police, regulators, staff training, supervision or other activities.
Safeguarding duties have a legal effect in relation to organisations other than the local authority, for example the NHS and the police.
The aims of adult safeguarding are to:
Prevent harm and reduce risk of abuse or neglect to adults with care and support needs
Stop abuse and neglect wherever possible
Safeguard adults in a way that supports them in making choices about how they want to live
Promote an approach that concentrates on improving life for the adults concerned
Raise public awareness so that communities as a whole, alongside professionals, play a part in preventing, identifying and responding to abuse and neglect
Provide information and support in accessible ways to help people understand the different types of abuse, how to stay safe and what to do to raise a concern about the safety or well-being of an adult
Address what has caused the abuse or neglect
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