Safeguarding Reflective Report
During this placement, I have learned that safeguarding referrals rely on professional judgements against the Risk Threshold Procedures (RTT, 2017) and legislation of Care Act 2014. Assessments methods within adult safeguarding present as both process-focused (clear directives of how to protect vulnerable adults within legislation and policy) and contingent (assessment goals vary on context and independent variables) (SCIE, 2007). The assessment process is systematic and embedded into the Care Act in how local authorities are duty bound to respond and protect adults from abuse (Care Act, 2014). However, despite the process focused approach, there is an element of human subjectivity and the level of need and risk is dependent on gathering the
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The adult protection officers asked if I could attend a meeting regarding their practice, I declined this. I informed the adult protection lead that I have done what I was duty bound by and I stand firm in this conviction despite family antipathy, I stood back and let them conduct their investigation and negotiations on staff practice; recognition of maintaining my professional and personal boundaries (3.4; PCF-1).
I recognised through supervision and reflection (11.2; PCF-6) how the legal and policy mandates move beyond a processed focused approach. The contingent nature of risk management is dependent on understanding the wider socio-cultural context and the environment the what, why, when, how and who else is affected by the abuse? Has a multitude of safeguarding referrals come in from one care home due to management changes? How many referrals have we received for this care home? Are there other agencies such as CQC? Are SAB involved? Are practice improvement officers involved due to SC42 Establishment …show more content…
On doing this I would have discovered the suspicious death; reflections ‘on action’ highlighted this was a gap in my research, I felt anxiety that this was something I had not considered in my research, what if I had not been informed of the death? This was more a reflection of my lack of knowledge on the systems, how to research information and what to look for. Since these incidents took place I have attended training on the database systems, Risk Factor Training and become more systematic in my research practices
The adult protection officers asked if I could attend a meeting regarding their practice, I declined this. I informed the adult protection lead that I have done what I was duty bound by and I stand firm in this conviction despite family antipathy, I stood back and let them conduct their investigation and negotiations on staff practice; recognition of maintaining my professional and personal boundaries (3.4; PCF-1).
I recognised through supervision and reflection (11.2; PCF-6) how the legal and policy mandates move beyond a processed focused approach. The contingent nature of risk management is dependent on understanding the wider socio-cultural context and the environment the what, why, when, how and who else is affected by the abuse? Has a multitude of safeguarding referrals come in from one care home due to management changes? How many referrals have we received for this care home? Are there other agencies such as CQC? Are SAB involved? Are practice improvement officers involved due to SC42 Establishment …show more content…
On doing this I would have discovered the suspicious death; reflections ‘on action’ highlighted this was a gap in my research, I felt anxiety that this was something I had not considered in my research, what if I had not been informed of the death? This was more a reflection of my lack of knowledge on the systems, how to research information and what to look for. Since these incidents took place I have attended training on the database systems, Risk Factor Training and become more systematic in my research practices