Practice in safeguarding adults is changing, with a shift in approach to ensure it is person-centred and outcome-focused. The Care Act 2014 introduced new safeguarding duties for local authorities, and this book describes what up-to-date practice should look like, and how to provide the best quality care and support for adults who may be at risk of abuse or neglect.
Chapters cover core areas of practice according to Care Act and adult safeguarding principles, identify the fundamental skills and knowledge practitioners working in this area should be able to utilise and introduce the emerging challenging issues in the workplace. As well as being invaluable to practitioners working directly in this field, this is also ideally suited to be a text for any social work course or programme on adult safeguarding practice.
Foreword; Introduction; Section 1 Making safeguarding personal: Approaches to practice; 1. The 'making safeguarding personal' approach to practice - Jane Lawson, Chair of Bracknell Forest Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board; 2. Signs of safety - Dr Tony Stanley, People Directorate; 3. Peer networks, circles of support and family group conferencing - Marilyn Taylor and Linda Tapper, Daybreak FGC; 4. Working towards recovery and resolution - John Gunner, Interresolve; 5. Involvement and engagement - Sarah Carr and Trish Hafford-Letchfield, Middlesex University; Section 2 Working with risk and using the law; 6. Understanding and working with risk - Emily White, Central Bedfordshire Council; 7. Mental capacity and safeguarding - Daniel Baker, Central Bedfordshire Council; 8. Using the law to support safeguarding interventions - Fiona Bateman, Southampton Safeguarding Adults Board; 9. Managing/overcoming difficult encounters - Jill Manthorpe, King's College London; Section 3 Challenges for practitioners; 10. Self neglect and hoarding - Michael Preston-Shoot, University of Bedfordshire and Susy Braye, Sussex University; 11. Domestic abuse and adult safeguarding - Nicki Norman, Women's Aid and Dr Lindsey Pike, Research in Practice for Adults; 12. Modern slavery and human trafficking - Sean Oliver and Anthony Botting, Croydon Council; Conclusion - Dr Adi Cooper OBE
This publication brings a valuable new text for social workers and wider professionals working with people and in the arena of Adult safeguarding. A collection that allows for some challenge to thinking and practice reflection is always welcomed especially at a time where social work must embed human rights and civil liberties in all that it does. This book can only aid those discussions and professional development.
