Adult safeguarding

Adults

Charity’s social care scorecard outlines “calamitous” cuts to older people’s care

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Adults, Children, Workforce

‘If you put your head above the parapet, you’re likely to get shot’

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Whistle-blowing social workers disillusioned as concerns about abusive or dangerous practice are ignored

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Adults

Campaigners to produce guidance on safeguarding powers of entry due to ‘inadequate’ official advice

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Adults, Workforce

How social workers can help housing staff safeguard adults

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Adults, Mental Health

Social workers given advice on using powers of entry to protect adults at risk

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Adults

National measure of service user satisfaction with safeguarding proposed for 2016

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Adults, Wales

Welsh government sets out draft ‘eligibility test’ for new social care law

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Adults, Workforce

Prosecutions double for abuse or neglect of people who lack capacity

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Adults, Workforce

How the Care Quality Commission is changing the way it regulates social care

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Adults, Workforce

A wider definition of domestic abuse will help social workers safeguard more adult victims

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Adults

Five key stats for social workers from new official adult safeguarding figures

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Adults

When is it a social worker’s job to investigate pressure ulcers?

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Adults, Workforce

Support workers are key to helping learning disabled people form fruitful and safe relationships

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Adults, Workforce

‘We need a whistleblowing system that staff have confidence in’

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Adults, Workforce

Care Act guidance leaves social workers none the wiser on new duty to share safeguarding information

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