National
Framework:
No
secrets Department of Health (2000): This piece of legislation
is a great support for multi-agency working to promote an effective approach to
safeguarding in local area. As far as I understand, ’No secret’ means
everything must be exposed about safeguarding issues so multi-agency can openly
obtain data from each other and work out effectively.
Statement
of Government's policy on adult Safeguarding: The main regulator
‘Department of Health’ has set out key principles of safeguarding. Those are
Empowerment, Protection, Prevention, Proportionality, Partnership and
Accountability. Multi-agency must ensure that all of these principles are
included in local policies and put in practice.
Local
Framework:
i) Multi-agency adult protection arrangements for
the locality
Different organisations have agreed to work in
partnership under this arrangement to safeguard vulnerable adults. They work at
ground level to develop policies and procedures, by identifying new issues and
promote good practices to overcome safeguarding barriers through the following
systems:
- Safeguarding Adults Board
- Safeguarding Adults Team
ii) Local organisational policies and procedures:
Organisational
safeguarding policies and procedures are made up of many pieces of regulators
(Department of Health, Care Quality Commission) legislations and local
authority’s and multi-agencies legislations. Few policies and procedures are in
below-
Safeguarding policy, Mental Capacity Act policy,
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard (DoLS) policy, Equality and Diversity policy,
Whistle-Blowing policy and Grievance policy.
