1. Understand the legislation, regulations and policies that underpin the protection of vulnerable adults
1.1 Analyse the difference between the concept of safeguarding and the concept of protection in relation to vulnerable adults
The concepts of safeguarding of vulnerable adults is that is about the protection from maltreatment, preventing the impairment of a person health and making sure that vulnerable adults are living in suitable environments that are consistent with the provision of safe and effective care. This ensures the safety of a person. Safeguarding is about how to keep a person safe from the above and look at how it can prevent vulnerable adults or children suffering abuse by ensuring that service providers report these incidents. The protection of adults plays an important part in the safeguarding and promotion of their health and well-being. Protection of vulnerable adults is critical and crucial as part of the wider work to safeguarding.
An emphasis of safeguarding came from the Joint Chief …show more content…
This laid out the responsibilities for LA's to develop and organise a policy to protect vulnerable adults from abuse through a multi-agency approach, similar to the Child Protection Agenda. This guidance also gave LA's the responsibility of setting up local multi-agency teams and set up the correct reporting procedures for any cause of concern to be reported. The guidance also set out that these local teams ensured that service providers had the relevant protection of vulnerable of adults’ policies and procedures in place and ensure that staff who work with vulnerable adults were trained to identify any signs or symptoms of