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No Secrets, also known coequally as Adult Safeguarding, was a UK Government publication from the Department of Health which provided guidance on developing and implementing multi-agency policies and procedures to protect adults deemed "at risk" from harm and/or abuse. [1]
The Care Act 2014 introduced new legislation regarding safeguarding vulnerable adults. [16] Increasingly, the terms adult at risk, or adult at risk of harm, [17] are preferred to the term vulnerable adult. [18] The Care Act sets out a legal framework for how local authorities and other organisations should react to suspicion of abuse or neglect ...
The Department of Justice defines this as "an adult who is unable to receive and evaluate information or make or communicate informed decisions to such an extent that the adult lacks the ability to meet essential requirements for physical health, safety or self-care, even with reasonably available appropriate technological assistance" (Civil ...
During the COVID-19 Pandemic, emergency legislation was introduced by the government known as the Adult Social Care Action Plan. It has four main goals which aimed to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the Adult Social Care sector. Section 4.6 and 4.7 of the Adult Social Care Action Plan states how The Coronavirus Act 2020 amends the Care Act ...
They also have a large body of work on integration of health and social care, having provided national support as part of their work with the Better Care Fund. [9] SCIE continue to be well known [citation needed] for their resources on safeguarding adults and children, on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and on Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
The aim of the MASH is to bring together all the agencies involved in safeguarding of vulnerable adults and children. This can be when they are victims of domestic abuse, neglect, criminal exploitation of labour, sexual exploitation, child sexual abuse, sexual assault, or any other (normally illegal) act that places them at ongoing risk of harm.
Clinical governance is a systematic approach to maintaining and improving the quality of patient care within the National Health Service (NHS) and private sector health care. Clinical governance became important in health care after the Bristol heart scandal in 1995, during which an anaesthetist, Dr Stephen Bolsin , exposed the high mortality ...
Dignity of risk is the idea that self-determination and the right to take reasonable risks are essential for dignity and self esteem and so should not be impeded by excessively-cautious caregivers, concerned about their duty of care.