Questions On Principles Of Safeguarding

Physical abuse is a deliberate use of physical force that results in bodily injury pain or impairments. Sgns of physical abuse can be burns and scalds, marks on the skin consistent with being slapped, scratched, bitten or pinched.Sexual abuse is direct or indirect involvementin sexual activity without valid consent. Signs of sexual abuse could be sexual transmitted disease,unexplained crying and distress or anxiety and fear of physical touch. Emotional/psycholoigical abuse is any action by another that damages an individuals mental wellbeing, signs of this is attention seeking behaviour,depression,low self-esteem and lack of self confidence.

Neglect by others means when someone knowing is ignoring and/or with holding physical or medical care.

Physical abuse is abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation, pain, injury, or other physical suffering or bodily harm..

Safeguarding is an important part of integrated working. Professionals work together to keep the individual at the centre of all activities. So everyone in the society is

Neglect is the failure to meet a child’s basic physical and or psychological needs, which is likely to affect the child’s health or development. Neglect is when a parent or carer fails to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter (including exclusion from home or abandonment), medical care, or protection from physical and emotional harm or danger. Additionally failure to ensure access to education or to look after a child because the carer is under the influence of alcohol or drugs, is considered as Neglect.

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.

Neglect often a subcategory of abuse, will be expanded. For all intents and purposes of this paper the elderly will be defined as persons sixty and up. Senior neglect is not fulfilling a caretaking obligation. It could also include putting your elderly grandparents or parent on the backburner. Not giving them the attention and love they deserve. According to the National Center on elder abuse ninety percent of the roughly two percent of elderly neglect cases actually reported to the authorities are committed by a family member- whether intentional or not. They are not only neglected by their caregivers and or their family members but they are also neglected by the government. Both groups are supposed to have the best interest in mind for them. and often enough their interest is placed somewhere else.

Self neglect is a behavioral condition in which a person has the inability or unwillingness to attend to one’s personal needs or hygiene. This may be seen in various ways: malnutrition, hygiene, clothing or compliance for medications. This is due to dementia, brain damage or mental illnesses like depression or psychotic disorders.

How it affects individuals and how it can be linked to the social structure of the wider world. The issue of self-neglect is very common in social work practice and the social workers working with vulnerable adults will be familiar with the issue. Some studies suggest that self-neglect is a factor in about 20% of cases in mental health and older people services (Aspinwall-Roberts: 2012). Historically self-neglect has been an area of minimum concentration, research and the definition has been very vague and unclear and traditionally it is not considered to be a part of the safeguarding policy (Aspinwall-Roberts:2012). Braye et al (2011) write that self-neglect and its relation to safeguarding practice is not clear as the risk and abuse is not inflicted by a third party.

Within my own work setting there are policies and procedures which identify safeguarding adults and promote better services to vulnerable adults with mental health living in the community - each policy is reviewed on a six monthly basis or yearly basis to ensure that any developments in national policy or legislation can be implemented into the reviewed policy. Firstly when recruiting new members of staff it is important that as an organisation, information regarding previous knowledge on safeguarding is recognised which allows the management to understand the level of awareness a new member of staff. All staff are to undertake safeguarding training so that they are aware of how to be aware of what safeguarding means and the types of abuse that can happen in the workplace - be vigilant in spotting the signs of abuse and know what happens if abuse occurs and the reporting process. The training should be repeated on a yearly basis unless required earlier by management to ensure all staffs are regularly up to date with the process to follow when protecting adults; additionally

|category also includes self neglect where an adult is unable to carry out daily living activities or manage personal finance, loosing weight, looking dirty and |

Safeguarding - is to protect all the children against abuse, maltreatment, neglect, unfair treatment and violence.

The elderly are neglected around the world every day, and it is a problem that sometimes goes unnoticed for days, months, years and sometimes never noticed at all. The neglect can happen at home, or in a nursing home and is usually done by a caregiver. The caregiver is usually a trusted individual that has been selected by their loved ones; which is one of the reasons it happens without anyone noticing as these caregivers are trusted by family members and give the family no reason to ever suspect harm or foul played being done to their elderly loved ones when no one is around. Elderly neglect can also be defined as an elderly person who is not taking care of themselves whether done on purpose or by mistake, because they have simply just forgotten how to take care of themselves and no one is making sure that they are doing so.

Gibbons, Lauder and Ludwick (2006), identified the three defining characteristics of self-neglect which are poor environmental hygiene, poor personal hygiene and nonadherence to health behaviors (Gibbons et al., 2006). Poor environmental hygiene may consist of an unsanitary household, evidence of rodent infestation, hoarding, and large number of pets (Gibbons et al., 2006). Nonadherence to health behaviors include inconsistency or failure in compliance to health care recommendations, refusing to take medication, ignoring signs/symptoms

Neglect: the failure to provide food, shelter, health care, or protection for a vulnerable elder.