Safeguarding Across the Life Span
Safeguarding Across the Life Span
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June Keeling and David Goosey 2021
Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 David Goosey 2021
Chapter 5 June Keeling and Lisa Oakley 2021
Chapter 7 and 8 Mark Tasker 2021
Chapter 9 Christina Julios 2021
Chapter 10 June Keeling 2021
Chapter 11 and 13 June Keeling and Ceryl Teleri Davies 2021
Chapter 12 Sue Read, Shirley Heath and Patsy Corcoran 2021
Chapter 14 Ceryl Teleri Davies and June Keeling 2021
Final Thoughts June Keeling and David Goosey 2021
First published 2021
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2019957501
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This book is dedicated to all the people who work tirelessly to make their communities safer.
June: I would like to express thanks to my family and friends. You are remarkable people who offer kindness, humour, integrity and warmth.
David: Thanks go to my wife, Sharon, for putting up with me writing rather than enjoying life together. Now the writing is over, the enjoyment begins!
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About the Authors
June Keeling , PhD, MEd, BSc(Hons), RGN, RM is Professor of Womens Health at Keele University. June has been a Registered General Nurse and a Registered Midwife for over 30 years, 16 of those in academic posts. She has practised across areas including A&E, acute ENT, general nursing and also midwifery. June has also previously worked as a domestic violence coordinator at a large university teaching hospital, delivering safeguarding training and working as part of a multi-disciplinary safeguarding team. She has published articles in the collective area of womens health, domestic violence and abuse, birthing and professionalism in nursing. She is co-editor for
Domestic Violence. A multi-professional approach for healthcare practitioners (McGraw Hill, 2008) and co-editor of
How to Write Well: A Guide for Health and Social Care Students (McGraw Hill, 2013).David GooseyBA(Hons), MSocSc, CQSW, AASW, PGCE, RSW is a Registered Social Worker, working independently in safeguarding services in local government, health care organisations and schools. He was Principal Lecturer in the Department of Leadership at the Westminster Business School for 17 years, combining his interest in leadership and safeguarding services. He is Chair of the Portsmouth Safeguarding Adults Board and Independent Scrutineer for the Lewisham Safeguarding Children Partnership. He is co-author of
Law for Social Workers (Oxford University Press, 2019, 15th edition).
About the Book
Safeguarding across the life span offers a unique and essential approach to safeguarding. It identifies the overlapping safeguarding concerns throughout the age continuum, such as violence against women and children, mothers with a mental health issue and their children, neglect of an older person. Many books on safeguarding present information for one group of clients, for example, children or adults. As practitioners we were aware that safeguarding practice requires an interdisciplinary approach, often with a need to address safeguarding concerns from an intergenerational perspective. With this in mind, we chose a non-binary approach towards the development of the book. Specific safeguarding concerns, such as online abuse, are addressed within each of the chapters and, where relevant, an intergenerational approach has been woven through. Signposting across chapters supports the reader to link information. References to concepts and themes that directly impact on the Life Course (examples of which include discrimination, isolation, decision-making, reflective practice, abuse/power) are addressed throughout the book.
The book addresses safeguarding concepts and theories, then applies the practice of safeguarding through a range of learning activities. The chapters provide specialist knowledge, present case studies, and support practitioners to develop safeguarding practice. When thinking about safeguarding practice, students often encounter two main challenges: translating policy into practice, and engaging within a meaningful multidisciplinary approach. Most serious case reviews and inquiries into tragic deaths or serious injuries have highlighted the need for better and closer cooperation between professionals and agencies, and the need for improved interprofessional communication and information sharing. With these in mind, the pedagogy of the book draws on activities to connect theory to practice across a range of contexts. Each chapter provides opportunities that guide the reader to engage in the text, then apply this knowledge to a given scenario. We anticipate this book being useful to a range of practitioners drawn from Health and Social Care but also extending beyond these disciplines. Clear signposting to professional codes of conduct and the provision of electronic links to professional websites support this approach. We wanted to ensure the book was accessible across a range of professions from across the UK. England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have discrete Acts, detailed in .
