Principles of Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social Care Hsc 024

Physical abuse is when someone hits you or hurts your body. Sexual abuse is when someone touches your body in a way you do not like, sexual abuse can also be when someone wants you to touch them or to wanting you to have sex with them when you don’t want to. Emotional abuse is when someone keeps saying hurtful things that upset you. Financial abuse is when someone takes your money or belongings from you without your permission, someone who is committing financial abuse may also force you to give them things or spend money that you don’t want to spend. Neglect by others is where the people that are supposed to support and look after you

Law and guidance regulate the way you should work with children in your childcare setting to support and encourage their well-being and safeguard them from abuse and maltreatment. Legislation provides a comprehensive instruction on what must be attained in respect to child protection and safeguarding. Whereas Legal guidance is more precise and provides details on how the law ought to be applied and fulfilled in early years settings and services. Laws and statutory regulation are compulsory and should reinforce policies and procedures that are used in your setting.

Riddor (the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations.) promotes safety in health and social care settings as it

A duty of care is the requirement that all health and social care professionals, and organisations providing health and care services, must put the interests of the people who use their services first. They also have to do everything in their power to keep people safe from harm. People have a right to expect that when a professional is providing support, they will be kept safe and not be neglected or exposed to any unnecessary risks. The expression is that we ‘owe’ a duty of care to the people we work with. ‘Owe’ is a useful word to describe the nature of the duty of care because it is just like a debt. It is something that you must pay as a part of choosing to become a

A type of child abuse is Physical abuse, this refers to a violent interaction with a child a parent's in which the parent inflicts bodily harm on to their child. Emotional abuse is abuse in which parents hurt their child’s feeling of rejection, abandonment, belittlement, name-calling, threatening, isolation or exploitation their child. Sexual abuse is when a child has exposed sex-related talk to sex-related actions that inflict some sort of harm on to a child. Neglect is another form of abuse where parents fail to care for their child’s basic needs, fail to provide a decent standard of living for their child and safety.

Outcome 1 – Understand own responsibilities, and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety in the work setting

Following the death of Peter Connelly (baby P), a 17 month old baby who died in London after sustaining more than 50 injuries, over an eight month period. The child protection services and other agencies widely failed him which lead to the introduction of The Childcare Act 2006. This was the first law fully pledged to the care of early years. This introduced Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) which sets standards for the learning, development and care of children from birth to five years old. All schools and Ofsted register providers adhere to the guidelines set in the EYFS.

Physical: Physical abuse is deliberate physical force that may result in bodily injury, pain, or impairment. Both old and young people can be physically abused.

The majority of carers are women (finch and groves 1983) and significant proportions are under the age of 18. This is known as a young carer, which is defined as ‘someone, under the age of 18, who looks after, or helps to care for, a family member who has a disability, mental ill health, a blood borne virus or a problematic use of drugs or alcohol. They may provide hands-on caring, and/or may be affected themselves by someone in their family who needs care’ (Dundee Carers Centre, 2009). There are difficulties identifying young carers because many do not disclose their caring role for fear of being separated from their parents and family members, bullying and social exclusion. Also there is a large amount of emotional strain for younger carers who do not access the services they are entitled to.

This essay will describe the models of abuse and compare them; there has been some controversy over these and this will be lightly discussed.

There are several characteristics of abusers. Abusers can be anyone from your parents to your children. Many times abusers have issues that haven’t been resolved. Some of the abuse results from being abused or it comes from social problems. Regardless of the situation abuse is never okay and should be handled accordingly. This essay will cover the characteristics of abusers of domestic violence and what roles substance abuse plays in domestic violence. One characteristic of an abuser is destroying an individual’s property and the things they care about. When an abuser feels like an individual is going to leave the abuse, the abuser will sometimes feel threatened and start trashing their items in their house. It is a way of controlling the situation and trying to make it work out in their favor. Another characteristic is the way an abuser controls everything in one’s life their money, who that individual talks to, and if that person works. Controlling behaviors from abusive persons can get to the point where the individual may feel that they don’t have control over their own life or allowed to do anything due to fear of upsetting the abuser. An abuser may not want the person to work or make more money than them. According to text “Controlling a person’s employment by trying to get him or her fired, making excessive calls to work, or creating scenes are examples of efforts to control the victim’s financial situation and force dependence”

The family must be supportive and understand the changes in the patient. This can help the family to also learn to communicate and deal with problems more effectively. (Lipton, 1994) The various symptoms have to be understood by all family members, like staying alone in a room for long periods of time, unable to sleep, or their frightening temper. It is important not to take anger and temper personally, but to understand where it comes from. (Lipton, 1994) The better a family member understands the situation, the easier it is to deal with the situations.

Workplace bulling is malicious behavior by a person or group of people that causes others to be uncomfortable, fearful, and sometimes threatened. Ultimately, it affects the person’s ability to be productive. As stated in the article, bullying can take

This article describes the different types of abuse: physical, emotional, sexual, and psychological. Abuse can be found in any relationship whether it is between married, unmarried, heterosexual, or homosexual couples. Physical abuse is the intentional use of physical force to cause bodily harm such as choking, hitting, shoving, or use of a weapon are just a few acts of physical abuse. On an even more serious note sexual abuse, which is a form of physical abuse, involves forced or unwanted sexual acts against a person and it can anything from sexual harassment to engaging in a sexual act with a person who cannot provide consent because they are under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Other forms of abuse include psychological abuse in the

Behaviors such as a supervisor being unpleased with an employee performance regardless of their attempt to learn new measures or complete a duty, an employee being called to an unplanned meeting with a supervisor or others where further derogation occurs, and despite an employee skills, history of excellence, and expertise an employee is still considered incompetent. Other signs of bullying in the workplace are when employees are told to stop interacting with an employee at work and social settings, an employee constantly feels stressed and fearful which constantly puts the individual in a position to question their ability and wait for negative comments, when an employee asks a leader for help they are frequently told to work out their differences alone, and no action is taken to address employees who show signs of