Qualification: Level 2 Diploma in Care, Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care
Unit name: Safeguarding and Protection in Care Settings
Learning outcome: 4. Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection from abuse
Assessment criteria: 4.1 Identify relevant legislation, national policies and local systems that relate to safeguarding and protection from abuse
Unit name: Safeguarding and Protection in Care Settings
Learning outcome: 4. Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection from abuse
Assessment criteria: 4.1 Identify relevant legislation, national policies and local systems that relate to safeguarding and protection from abuse
Legislation relating to safeguarding and protection from abuse includes:
- The Human Rights Act 1998 – sets out rights and freedoms of all UK citizens
- Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 – makes FGM unlawful
- The Mental Capacity Act 2005 – protects rights of individuals that lack capacity
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 – backgound checks for workers that have contact with vulnerable individuals
- Equality Act 2010 – protects against discriminatory abuse
- Health and Social Care Act 2012 – legislates how agencies work together
- Care Act 2014 – legislates how agencies works together, puts onus on local authorities to lead local safeguarding
- Modern Slavery Act 2015 – protects individuals from human trafficking, domestic servitude, forced labour etc.
National policies relating to safeguarding and protection from abuse include:
- Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers and Adult Social Care Workers in England
- Care Quality Commission Fundamental Standards
- Duty of Care and Duty of Candour
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
- Professional bodies that require registration
Local systems relating to safeguarding and protection from abuse include:
- Safeguarding Adults Boards (SABs)
- Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs) – previously Serious Case Reviews
- Employer’s agreed ways of working