SAFEGUARDING ADULTS IN WANDSWORTH

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SAFEGUARDING ADULTS IN WANDSWORTH

• BELINDA MURPHY

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CONTEXT

• No Secrets 2000 (Department of Health and Home
  Office)
• ADSS Safeguarding Adults National framework of
  standards of good practice and outcomes in adult
  protection 2005
• Wandsworth inter- agency policy and procedures
  for Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults September 2006

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VULNERABLE ADULT

• A person who is or may be in need of community
  care services by reason of mental or other
  disability, age or illness and who is or may be
  unable to take care of him or herself , or unable
  to protect him or herself against significant
  harm or exploitation.
• No Secrets Department of Health (March
  2000) Section 2.3 page 8 9

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ABUSE

• Abuse is a violation of an individuals human
  and civil rights by any other person or persons.
• Abuse may consist of a single act or repeated
  acts. It may be physical, verbal or
  psychological, it may be an act of neglect or an
  omission to act, or it may occur when a
  vulnerable person is persuaded to enter into a
  financial or sexual transaction to which he or
  she has not consented, or cannot consent. Abuse
  can occur in any relationship and may result in
  significant harm to, or exploitation of, the
  person subjected to it.
• No Secrets Department of Health ( March
  2000) Section 2.5 pg 9

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SIGNIFICANT HARM

• Harm should be taken to include not only ill
  treatment (including sexual abuse and forms of
  ill- treatment that are not physical), but also
  the impairment or, or an avoidable deterioration
  in, physical or mental health and the impairment
  of physical, intellectual, emotional, social or
  behavioural development.
• No Secrets Department of Health (March
  2000) Section 2 pg 12

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TYPES OF ABUSE

• physical
• psychological
• neglect
• institutional
• sexual
• discrimination
• financial

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RESPONSIBLITIES OF PARTNER AGENCIES

• Recognising the alleged/ potential abuse
• Alert Social Services
• Provide expert advice through the investigation
  e.g. medical report

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AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT

• Joint budget
• Multi- agency training appropriate level
• PCT representative on the partnership board and
  reporting procedures within the PCT
• PCT representative on the board question how
  safeguarding adults influence commissioning?