Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Book

This is a key text for all workers with vulnerable adults and an essential, affordable, updatable resource for teaching and training, providing authoritative information on procedures and using the law: Mental Capacity Act 2005. In this title, Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, Mental Health Act 2007 and subsequent legislation addressed in updates. It covers human rights, domestic violence, and inter-professional work. This is an accessible guide to practice that makes the subject come alive. Stimulating critical reflection, with many practice examples, "Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults" can be used: at college or university, for training at work, with carers, social workers, nurses, police officers, and housing officers; in small and large organisations; and, in public and voluntary sectors. The author has published widely on using the law in social care, and has developed this package from an accredited training programme for people from a variety of professions." Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults" will help anyone get to grips with: what is No Secrets; inter-disciplinary approaches to good practice; stakeholders in No Secrets; where can abuse take place; consolidating the issues and setting the agenda for implementation; effective practice, risk and harm reduction; the law relating to domestic violence; considering capacity; and, protecting people who lack capacity. 'It is a welcome and timely addition to the resources available to tackle and prevent abuse to adults. I recommend the package to you' - Robert Adams, Professor of Social Work at the University of Teesside.This title contains: a stand-alone workbook for students and workers comprising; a learning profile at the start; 9 sessions; a learning outcome profile at the end; a review to assist reflection on what has been learned and applying it in practice; a bibliography to help further learning; and, appendices listing key pieces of relevant legislation and an action model to follow if abuse is suspected. There is a guidance on using the workbook in teaching or training. Many learners should be able to use the entire workbook as a course of self-study. But, lecturers and supervisors can choose whether to let members of a group of learners progress at different speeds, or work their way through the workbook together, perhaps linking it to lectures, assignments or seminars.Taking a look at "Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults" on 30-day, free trial will let you find guidance on how and when: smaller organisations can photocopy the workbook for use in their training at no extra charge. Larger organisations can additionally purchase the workbook in PDF format from RHP, and thereby obtain licence to use it in teaching and training across their organisation. Trainers can use the material in more than one organisation. The workbook has been developed principally for use in England, but may prove useful elsewhere. For example, the PDF could be adapted for use in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In this book, notification of opportunities to buy complete new versions of the workbook each year, with all changes in law and guidance incorporated.Read More