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What are the six core principles of safeguarding that care home staff must follow?
What are the six core principles of safeguarding that care home staff must follow?
- Empowerment, prevention, proportionality, protection, partnership, and responsibility
- Empathy, prevention, proportionality, protection, partnership, and accountability
- Empowerment, prevention, proportionality, protection, partnership, and accountability (correct)
- Empowerment, prevention, proportionality, protection, partnership, and authority
How can family members report their suspicions of abuse or neglect in a care home?
How can family members report their suspicions of abuse or neglect in a care home?
- By contacting the care home manager directly
- By raising a 'safeguarding alert' to local authorities or completing a safeguarding concern notification form (correct)
- By posting on social media about their concerns
- By ignoring their suspicions and hoping the situation improves
What is the purpose of safeguarding in a care home?
What is the purpose of safeguarding in a care home?
- To care for vulnerable adults, following procedures designed to keep them safe (correct)
- To save money on insurance premiums
- To limit the rights of residents
- To make the care home staff's job easier
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Safeguarding Procedures in Care Homes: A Comprehensive Guide
- Safeguarding is vital for any care home to protect vulnerable residents.
- Care homes must follow procedures designed to keep residents safe from harm or abuse.
- Responsibilities for care homes to safeguard their residents are extensive, including fire safety.
- Care home staff must carry out assessments in line with the resident’s needs.
- Care homes must follow safeguard policies, including “The Care Act 2014” which lays out the responsibility of care and support between health and local authorities.
- There are six core principles of safeguarding that care home staff must follow.
- These principles include empowerment, prevention, proportionality, protection, partnership, and accountability.
- It is important to continuously update and implement safeguarding procedures.
- Abuse and neglect can present in different ways and should be reported.
- Family members can report their suspicions by raising a “safeguarding alert” to local authorities or completing a safeguarding concern notification form.
- Safeguarding creates a framework to follow which is designed to result in a high level of care.
- Safeguarding for a care home means caring for vulnerable adults, following procedures designed to keep them safe.
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