The Adult Safeguarding Practice Handbook

This is an essential, practical guide to best practice in adult safeguarding which supports students and practitioners to develop the skills, knowledge and ethical awareness to confidently address the challenges of adult safeguarding across a wide range of practice contexts in the UK. The authors explore the current context of adult safeguarding in the UK, together with the legislation, rights and principles that are the basis of best practice, and with a focus on developments in practice following the implementation of the Care Act (2014). Practitioners are supported to develop their practice by exploring new research and innovative ways of working within the field, while promoting the importance of learning from experience and building resilience in adult safeguarding work. This book includes: • helpful case studies and examples of professional decision making from experienced adult safeguarding practitioners • top tips and models to enable confident application of knowledge to practice • tools for reflection to extend the practitioner’s development

This essential practical guide to best practice in adult safeguarding enables students and practitioners to develop the skills, knowledge and ethical awareness to confidently address the challenges of adult safeguarding across a wide-range of practice contexts.

This is an essential, practical guide to best practice in adult safeguarding which supports students and practitioners to develop the skills, knowledge and ethical awareness to confidently address the challenges of adult safeguarding across a wide range of practice contexts in the UK.The authors explore the current context of adult safeguarding in the UK, together with the legislation, rights and principles that are the basis of best practice, and with a focus on developments in practice following the implementation of the Care Act (2014).Practitioners are supported to develop their practice by exploring new research and innovative ways of working within the field, while promoting the importance of learning from experience and building resilience in adult safeguarding work. This book includes:• helpful case studies and examples of professional decision making from experienced adult safeguarding practitioners• top tips and models to enable confident application of knowledge to practice• tools for reflection to extend the practitioner’s development

1. IntroductionPart 1: The Context of Adult Safeguarding2. Human Rights: The Principles that Inform Adult Safeguarding3. Adult Safeguarding Legislation4. Mental Capacity and Adult Safeguarding5. Definitions in Adult SafeguardingPart 2: Good adult safeguarding practice6. Relationships, Values and Ethics7. Assessment of Risk8. Decision Making in Adult Safeguarding9. Adult Safeguarding Enquiries10. Recovery and Resolution11. References12. Statute, Case Law, Serious Case Reviews and Safeguarding Adults Reviews13. Index