Making Safeguarding Personal
The need to prioritize individuals’ needs and wishes, especially about risk, and ensure management of such risks necessitate safeguarding adults as a core part of social work to ensure adults are protected from abuse. Drawing on several benefits accrued from social work, adopting intervention techniques is a powerful aspect, especially since empowerment is a core idea of ensuring that there is a reduction of unreasonable risk demands among agencies such as police and ambulance services (Dixon, 2019). As a social worker, it is pertinent to ensure safeguarding personal is a successful safeguarding strategy, especially when engaging with individuals over a long period and ensuring management of pressure to close cases significantly and swiftly.
Making Safeguarding Personal, in respect of adult safeguarding, applies to evaluation and development of complex intervention techniques through the employment of a variety of actions, roles, and responsibilities of practitioners who in turn address organizational and ethical issues around the dynamics of family structure (Manthorpe et al., 2014). Intentionally, MSP involves the approaches to mediation and seeking information on outcomes as a means of encouraging positive outcomes through a wide range of situations requiring different approaches. Provided by a wide range of statutory and voluntary agencies, social services are necessary to support adult and children victims pertaining to domestic violence (Robbins et al., 2016). Therefore, as per the use of MSP as an intervention strategy, welfare, health, legal, and criminal justice can be adopted strategically to ensure social work issues are addressed. A series of complications can be analyzed for a solution for Doris, an elderly widow who has arthritis. More significant abuse and aggression signify the need for safeguarding individuals in the same environment as Doris from aggressive behavior.
According to Gough (2016), Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) is a developmental project intended to safeguard adults by ensuring collaboration between practitioners while utilising associations with local governments and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services to ensure an outcome-focused person-centered intervention. The strategy utilises procedures of a multi-faceted approach through conferences, outcome-focused assessment on adults, training of workforces, and quality assurance to deliver key objectives to clients. An examination of outcomes takes a centre stage when investigating care effectiveness, especially through engagement with workers and carers to provide personalised safeguarding approaches to individuals (Stevens et al., 2018). Implementation of outcome-based recording in unitary authorities is a classic approach adopted in determining risk, vulnerabilities, and stipulating the critical nature of situations for proper decision making.
MSP ensures that through adopting a 14/15 evaluation, individuals’ mental health and capacity provide substantial fundamental foundations for assuring consistency for MSP (Pike & Walsh, 2015). As the principal means of personalizing safeguarding interventions, MSP adopts pilot studies by local governments in placing major emphasis on the family to include advocacy and mediation to be essential personality features for safeguarding adults. In England, Making Safeguarding Personal is an ongoing national program aimed at promoting a shift in adult safeguarding cultural practice by ensuring that there is a significant focus on the wishes of the adult involved (Cooper et al, 2018). Directly addressing adult safeguarding has meant publication of no secrets for national government guidance, giving a formal recognition for abuse experience, especially for vulnerable elderly subjects.
Additionally, MSP aims to increase people’s involvement in all aspects of their safety by ensuring they have control during the safeguarding process because previously, there had been vast criticism of social work practice. Necessitating personalised agenda reforms by local governments attributed to changes in political leadership, MSP adopts six safeguarding principles: prevention, proportionality, empowerment, protection, accountability, and partnership (Cooper et al., 2018). In many cases, safeguarding has often been experienced as an action done to people rather than done with them, meaning there is a strong feeling of exclusion resulting in poor performance in Social work. Adopting the six key principles established by the MSP strategy ensures that an involvement-focused approach can necessitate positive performance in the execution and delivery of care. Focusing on individual well-being and safety is also beneficial to care, especially to adults having health and mental complications (Ruch et al., 2018). In many cases, reports on serious injuries and the death of children and adults have highlighted the concern for many social workers’ care capacity, especially in communicating with individuals. Applying social pedagogical principles utilizes core emotional dimensions such as neglect, belief in potential, and interconnectivity as core principals in establishing the most probable alternatives for evidence-based care. Maintaining professional relationships is a holistic practice that utilises authenticity and trust in building a carer-patient relationship (Ruch et al., 2018). Conclusively, due to prioritizing a person’s needs and supporting individuals based on the utilisation of resources, MSP adopts an efficient and sustainable social care strategy.
To ensure resilience and competence in practice, inter-professional collaboration is accompanied by skill, dedication, and patience; social workers need to maintain their own emotions and consider others’ emotions, especially when victims of violence and trauma get involved. Consideration of an individual’s needs to ensure resilience supports that patients receiving good social support often restore the emotional equilibrium in a stressful work environment. Supervisor and team support are a necessary strategy in employees’ cognitive performance, therefore maintaining attention to problem-solving in cases of anxiety (Biggart et al., 2017). Adopting MSP in the case of 83-year-old Doris means the need for assessment, ensuring a collaborative effort between caregivers and organizations. An understanding of the mental capabilities of Doris should be the first approach to assessment. Assessing an individual requires stating the procedures of assessment to Doris before getting consent. As a social worker, there should be an interview with the adult to establish a competence-based and norm-based approach to care. Identifying age and arthritis are the first steps giving a sense of complications in the mobility of the patient. Forgetfulness and confusion are a significant sign of mental incapability. As an individual, handling Doris necessitates notifying her about the underlying issues and inclusion in care (Gough, 2016). The individual needs to be aware of the current situation and available care options that can substantially ease her activities.
In making inquiries, a social worker needs to find the best and most resourceful collaborating strategy such as admission to disability pension, a retirement home for assistance, and health institutions for managing other mental capabilities such as forgetfulness due to old age. Information should be sufficiently collected on Doris, and healthcare records kept for future reference (Stevens et al., 2018). A look into other health issues in her family history will significantly help provide the best care for the individual. The most inclusive norm-based strategy that can be adopted by caregivers will be the Making Safeguarding Personal to ensure that persons at risk of age, dementia, and immobility can be aided and supported.