Adult Safeguarding Observed : How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty /
Applying sociological and ethnographic research to adult safeguarding for the first time, this book considers how frontline practice is developing, exploring safeguarding adults assessments and multi-agency work. The book is essential reading for those wishing to understand risk management and how c...
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Bristol :
Policy Press, an imprint of Bristol University Press,
2023.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Adult Safeguarding Observed: How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Why focus on adult safeguarding?
- What this book is about
- Thinking about risk
- Adult safeguarding duties under the Care Act 2014
- Relevance of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
- My approach to the research
- The structure of the book
- 1 The problem of adult safeguarding
- Introduction
- The 1960s: Barbara Robb's campaign
- The 1970s: early concerns about 'granny battering'
- The 1980s: concerns about old-age abuse and the abuse of people with learning disabilities
- The 1990s: early guidance and the Law Commission reviews
- The 2000s: publication of No Secrets and debates on the future of safeguarding
- 2010 and beyond: high-profile scandals, the Care Act 2014 and after
- Conclusion
- 2 Risk and social work
- Introduction
- Key risk theories
- Risk society
- Governmentality
- Cultural theory of risk
- Risk work
- Social work and risk
- Adult social work and risk work
- Conclusion
- 3 Referrals and assessments
- Introduction
- The legal status of the Care Act 2014 and the significance of new categories of abuse and neglect
- "We have got 80, 82 cases on the screening list": interventions to manage assessments
- "The computer system's appalling": social workers' views on using computer systems to document referrals
- Building a picture: assessing safeguarding risks
- Professional judgement and team cultures
- Inappropriate referrals
- Discouraging or encouraging referrals?
- Conclusion
- 4 Personalised safeguarding: policy, principles and practice realities
- Introduction
- Historically speaking: Social workers' perceptions of law and policy changes
- Austerity and resources
- "The last stop": safeguarding as a service of last resort
- Blockages in the system: the effects of reduced resources on safeguarding interventions
- "I don't even pick up the phone to [care] homes anymore": the effects of austerity measures on social relations
- Translating the safeguarding adults principles
- Wellbeing
- Proportionality
- Partnership and prevention
- Protection
- Empowerment
- Accountability
- Conclusion
- 5 Doing adult safeguarding with service users and carers
- Introduction
- Recording risks and negotiating responsibility: the use of risk assessment tools
- Person-led safeguarding: practical issues and problems
- Are they safe now? Establishing the person's immediate safety
- "It wasn't very practical to speak to him on the phone": the need for face-to-face assessments
- "I wouldn't know her if she walked past me in the street": working with resistance
- Difficulties of engaging with service users within the time available
- Working with service users during safeguarding enquiries