How to prevent abuse in vulnerable adults

Ensure they can live in safety, free from abuse and neglect. Empower them by encouraging them to make their own decisions and provide informed consent. Prevent the risk of abuse or neglect, and stop it from occurring. Promote their well-being and take their views, wishes, feelings and beliefs into account.

Safeguarding means protecting people’s health, wellbeing and human rights, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. It’s fundamental to high-quality health and social care.

1. Keep an eye out for family, friends, and neighbours who may be vulnerable.
2. Understand that abuse can happen to anyone although some people may be very good at hiding signs of abuse.
3. If a person’s isolation is an issue, discuss with them ways you might be able to help limit it.

Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect

1. Enhanced primary care.
2. Behavioral parent training programs.
3. Treatment to lessen harms of abuse and neglect exposure.
4. Treatment to prevent problem behavior and later involvement in violence.

It is the responsibility of people who work in Health and Social care to work in a way that will help to prevent abuse. This means providing good quality care and support and putting the individual at the centre of everything, empowering them to have as much control over their lives as possible.

Tips for dealing with a violent situation

1. trust your instincts and if you think a situation is getting worse, try not to get involved.
2. look for a way to leave.
3. if you’re in a building with security personnel, tell them immediately about what is happening.
4. put distance between yourself and the other person.

Examines child abuse and neglect and why prevention of child maltreatment is important because it can be avoided and because abuse and neglect can lead to negative consequences such as depression, developmental delays, and risk of developing substance abuse during adulthood.

Let’s look at some proven tips for staying safe and resolving the situation:

1. Situational awareness. First, check yourself: your emotional state is your choice.
2. Take care with your words. Resist the urge to say: ”Calm down.
3. Acknowledge the problem.
4. Be a great listener.
5. Be empathetic.
6. Use silence.
7. Give choices.

When safeguarding adults, this involves reducing and preventing the risk of harm, neglect or abuse alongside supporting them to maintain their own lives. To safeguard vulnerable adults you must: Ensure the person can live in safety, away from abuse and neglect.

Human Rights Act 1998 – this gives everyone, child and adult, the right to be safe in our body and in our mind. This law means that local councils and others must protect you. This protection should be respectful and it should help you get your needs met as a child or young person.

Raising a Safeguarding Concern Anybody can raise a safeguarding concern, for example they might be a carer, a professional working with adults with care and support needs or somebody who thinks they have been abused. They can raise a concern by contacting adult social care help desk directly on 01452 426868.

As long as it does not increase risk, practitioners should inform the person if they need to share their information without consent. Organisational policies should have clear routes for escalation where a member of staff feels a manager has not responded appropriately to a safeguarding concern.

If you think you or someone you know is being abused, or neglected you should tell someone you trust. This could be a friend, a teacher, a family member, a social worker, a doctor or healthcare professional, a police officer or someone else that you trust.

information should be retained on file, including for people who leave the organisation, at least until the person reaches normal retirement age, or for 10 years if that is longer. The purpose of the record is to enable accurate information to be given in response to any future request for a reference.

The Safeguarding Lead Worker will work with you and other important people to put together a plan that keeps you safe. This is called a Protection Plan. If the plan involves changes to the support or care you receive, then this plan will be agreed with you. You can say what help or support you need.

All staff have a responsibility to follow the 5 R’s (Recognise, Respond, Report, Record & Refer) whilst engaged on PTP’s business, and must immediately report any concerns about learners welfare to a Designated Officer.