Tag: Safeguarding

Safeguarding Across the Life Span


Free Download June Keeling, "Safeguarding Across the Life Span"
English | ISBN: 1473944449 | 2021 | 296 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Considering safeguarding across the life span and placing it within a multiagency context, this book gives students a grounding to the key issues in safeguarding today, highlighting the key skills and knowledge necessary for effective practice along the way. It includes reference to the latest legislation, skills for practice, a breadth of contexts and service-user groups, drawing on a range of case studies, activities, reflective questions and recommending reading from across health and social care. Locating age specific concerns in context and divided into sections which cover every stage of life, it addresses questions of culture, gender and problems frequently encountered in practice and what these mean for safeguarding and law.

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Disability Practice Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery


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English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 305 Pages | ISBN : 9819961424 | 7 MB
This book critically engages with the social, political and ethical implications of support for people with disability to be fully included in society. The authors examine contemporary issues of quality and safeguarding in disability services, translating research and practice wisdom into foundational knowledge. Written by leading researchers, the book provides a comprehensive overview of knowledge and practice necessary to prepare readers to deliver enabling support.

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Safeguarding the Nation The Story of the Modern Royal Navy


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English | 2009 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 1848320434, 159114812X | EPUB | 109,6 mb
This new history of the Royal Navy, published to coincide with the Golden Jubilee of the White Ensign Association, is a full and exciting account of all the many campaigns, operations and deployments conducted around the world from the Cold War and the Cod Wars to the Falklands War and the Gulf Wars. It has been written and compiled from privileged access to secret and confidential Admiralty Plans and Commanding Officers’ reports and contains a wealth of previously unpublished material. The story of how the Royal Navy has adapted to meet the many new challenges of the modern world and how it has carried out its vital roles from manning the nation’s strategic nuclear deterrent to guarding the vital offshore oil and gas facilities as well as protecting Britain’s worldwide interests is a truly fascinating one, while the development of ships, submarines, aircraft, weapons, tactics and strategies as well as the changes in personnel and life at sea are brought to life by contributions from people who served over the period. Profusely illustrated throughout with many previously unpublished photographs and paintings, this beautifully-produced volume is a magnificent golden jubilee tribute to the Royal Navy.

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Adult Safeguarding Observed How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty


Free Download Jeremy Dixon, "Adult Safeguarding Observed: How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty"
English | ISBN: 1447357280 | 2023 | 172 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Chapters 1, 3 and 5 are available Open Access under CC-BY licence. Safeguarding adults at risk of abuse or neglect is a core area of social work practice but knowledge of how social workers make adult safeguarding decisions is limited. Applying recent sociological and ethnographic research to this area for the first time, this book considers how adult safeguarding practice is developing, with a focus on risk management. The author explores how social workers conduct safeguarding adults assessments, work with multiple agencies and involve service users in risk decisions. The book is essential reading for those wishing to understand how risk and uncertainty are managed within frontline adult social work and how current practice can be improved.

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Cyber Sentinel Safeguarding the Digital Frontier


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English | July 19, 2023 | ISBN: 8890667915 | eISBN: 9798890667915 | 517 Pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The digital frontier is more vulnerable than ever in today’s interconnected world. Cybersecurity breaches are on the rise, and individuals and organisations are at risk of falling victim to cyber threats.

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Contextual Safeguarding The Next Chapter


Free Download Carlene Firmin, "Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter"
English | ISBN: 1447366425 | 2023 | 238 pages | PDF | 9 MB
How do we respond to harm faced by young people beyond their front doors? Can practitioners keep young people safe at school, in their neighbourhoods or with their friends when social care systems are designed to work with families? The Contextual Safeguarding approach has transformed how policy makers, social care leaders, practitioners and researchers understand harm that happens to young people in their communities and what is required to respond. Since 2015 it has been tested across the UK and internationally. This book shares stories from child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation and peer violence about what has been learnt on this journey. For anyone interested in how we safeguard young people beyond their front doors, this book shows how much we have achieved and raises big questions about what more we need to do to ensure young people are safe – whatever the context.

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