The Adult Safeguarding Practice Handbook

Description

This essential practical guide to best practice in adult safeguarding enables students and practitioners to develop the skills, knowledge and ethical awareness to confidently address the challenges of adult safeguarding across a wide-range of practice contexts. The authors provide detailed contextualisation that is responsive to the continuing evolution of safeguarding practices and takes into account the 2014 Adult Care Act. They also address new research and innovative ways of working within the field, whilst promoting the importance of learning from experience and building resilience in adult safeguarding work. This book features an array of development support materials, including: case studies from experienced adult safeguarding practitioners to illustrate and extend thinking, comments and vignettes from adults at risk, taken from research, checklists to aid memory and enable confident use of learning in practice and tools for reflection to extend the practitioner's development.

Kate Spreadbury is an independent social worker specialising in adult safeguarding. Rachel Hubbard is Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Programme Leader for social work Continuing Professional Development at UWE Bristol. She is an experienced social worker and Best Interests Assessor.

"Covers both the legal framework and practice information about adult safeguarding in a balanced and well informed manner. It will become a valuable tool for professionals working within this area." Laura Pritchard-Jones, Keele University. "A thought provoking book which enables the reader to be guided through the legal complexities of adult safeguarding using practical examples within a social care setting." Iwan Dowie, University of South Wales "This book provides the practitioner with a valuable tool to use in their everyday work. Read it in full or refer to it in the course of your work." Doug Bale, Former Head of Adult Safeguarding