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Sunday, 22 May 2016

Explain the roles of different agencies in safeguarding and protecting individuals from abuse?

CQC: Care quality commission has their duty to set guideline and monitor on health and social care organisations and agencies to protect individual from harm and abuse. If any care provider fails to protect individuals from harm and abuse or does not meet the standard set out by care quality commission then care provider will be forced to close down and pay penalty.

The Police: Police is mostly the first contact to safeguard and protect individual from abuse. Their responsibilities are to record, investigate, safeguard and report.

Safeguarding Adults Board: Their responsibilities are to share information among all local safeguarding agencies and monitor their action and activities regarding safeguarding issues.

How would you use the information about communication abilities and needs of the individual to ensure effective communication?

To establish effective communication and positive interaction you must have to aware of individual’s communication abilities. If you know the person’s communication ability then you have to take into account whether any aid or support necessary to establish effective communication. Suppose an individual with hearing difficulties you are trying to communicate. You have to ensure that individual has his hearing aid on before interaction. If there isn’t any hearing aid then you have to send individual for an assessment to local GP. And if you try to establish written communication with a blind person then you must provide Braille transcription.