Adult safeguarding by Bob Dawson
A guide for managers of nursing homes, hospitals, domiciliary and community-based services in adult Health and Social Care with responsibility for older people, dementia, learning disability and mental health. Adult Safeguarding: A Guide for Family Members, Social and Health Care Staff and Students considers both the reactive and proactive process in adult safeguarding. It launches a six-step process for managers and their teams to ensure the building blocks are in place for good safeguarding and therefore good practice. Where these six steps are successfully in place, they reduce the risk of abuse occurring. The six-step process comes from forty years of experience, including, twenty years of training in this area and other areas of concern raised consistently over that time by participants. The book takes the form of questions and answers, covering questions ranging from 'What's the difference between good practice and good safeguarding?' to 'What is a section 42 enquiry?' While the book is based on current legislation in England and Wales it is written in a general format with the most serious messages relevant in the whole of the United Kingdom and beyond. The book has been read and endorsed by Judith Eke Safeguarding manager for South Gloucestershire Council who has kindly written the foreword.
'This book is an easy readIt addresses lots of issues that worry and concern people supporting and caring for people with Down Syndrome and Dementia. This is clearly based on the author's many years of practice, but also on training sessions, which have highlighted the areas of concern. The result is a book written with the author's voice and a light touch. It is accessible, well informed, and full of important messages about good practice in the support of people with learning disabilities who are living with dementia.' Diana Kerr, Training Consultant and Author
Bob Dawson RMN, RNMH has been involved in different roles in health and social care since 1973. He is qualified in both mental health and learning disability nursing working up to the level of nursing officer in the National Health Service. He was also a senior manager in social care in the charitable/not for profit sector and he was employed as a trainer for a large learning disability NHS trust. When the trust closed as a result of care in the community in 1999 he established a consultancy/training service working across many organisations in the health and social care sector. During the first lock down in March 2020 he wrote Down Syndrome and Dementia as the first book in this series. Adult Safeguarding is the second book in the series.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781789632385 |
| ISBN 10 | 1789632382 |
| Title | Adult safeguarding |
| Author | Bob Dawson |
| Series | Sharing Good Practice Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The Choir Press |
| Year published | 2021-09-20 |
| Number of pages | 86 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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