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First published in 2021 by Critical Publishing Ltd

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.

Copyright 2021 Shona Britten and Karen Whitby

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Contents

We would like to express our warmest thanks to our families for their ongoing understanding, tolerance and humour.

This book is dedicated to the late Gwen Tapsell and her partner Tony Briggs, and also to Karens parents Kieran and Maura Allen.

Finally, we would like to share our absolute gratitude to Di Page for her warmth and guidance throughout our work with Critical Publishing.

Shona began her career in social work with a charity supporting the carers of young adults with learning disabilities. As a qualified social worker, Shona has worked with adults at risk, in both statutory and independent sector settings. She had held a range of posts including multidisciplinary team and area operational management, service planning and development in the areas of social inclusion and community development, and as a regional director. Shona is registered with Social Work England and is currently a professional lead for social work within the NHS.

Karen is a qualified and Social Work England registered social worker, and has worked within the arena of health and social care for more than 25 years. Karens career in social work has involved managing learning disability, carers and safeguarding adults services. She currently works as a lead professional for safeguarding adults within the NHS.

In 2018, together Shona and Karen wrote Self-neglect: A Practical Approach to Risks and Strengths Assessment (Critical Publishing); this text is the result of their ongoing collaboration and commitment to continued professional development.

Why we have written this book

As social work practitioners ourselves, we have worked with all aspects of safeguarding adults from the inception of No Secrets through to the starting point of Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) in 2010. This has now been translated into a fundamental duty and set of key principles, enshrined within the Care Act (2014), for all statutory agencies and practitioners involved in safeguarding adults at risk of abuse or neglect. These MSP principles also apply to partner agencies as members of Safeguarding Adults Boards (SABs) in England.

We do not aim to replicate all of the excellent work and resource developments undertaken by the Department of Health and Social Care, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Local Government Association (LGA) and other agencies in England and elsewhere. Our purpose is to describe some of the issues and practice-based situations which can arise for practitioners and to adopt a strengths-based Learning from Life approach in the translation of MSP principles to practical implementation. We base the content of this book upon two case scenarios which are outlined in and referred to throughout the text.

In pursuit of our goal to aid and support frontline practitioners, and the agencies they operate within, this journey from principles to practical implementation uses a suite of clear and concise practice-focused resources which adopt a person-centred, strengths- and relationship-based approach to all conversations, interventions and aspects of practice. These practitioner resources include a range of SnapShots on a selection of relevant topic areas in work with adults at risk through their safeguarding journey, to practice-based tools for practitioners to use in the quality monitoring of their own casework. The principal aim is to enable practitioners to build a basis for reflection upon their practice and casework within a robust framework for professional development. Each chapter is also supported by a range of Taking It Further reading and research suggestions which readers may wish to also pursue.

The primary focus of this work is the UK, where our practice is focused; it refers to legislation enacted within this jurisdiction. However, in clear recognition of the multicultural identity of society, the perspectives of Black and Minority Ethnic peoples and the ever-increasing levels of social work practice development within post-colonial (or de-colonialised) states, we hope that it can also prompt further research and practice-focused works to challenge the potential propensity of Eurocentric positions, which, if unchallenged, may lead to the risk of persistence in inadequate, ineffective and unrepresentative ).

The style of this text is aligned with our previous publication Self-neglect: A Practical Approach to Risks and Strengths Assessment (Britten and Whitby, ) in that it is designed to meet the practical, day-to-day needs of practitioners and again should be used to dip into, rather than being read from beginning to end as a narrative text.

Each of the chapters, and SnapShots on, can be used as standalone resources to prompt and support reflective practice discussion. In order to ease the readers navigation of the text, a brief overview of each chapter is given below.

: The origins of Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP): from principles to practice

This chapter summarises the evolution of personalisation in safeguarding adults, up to and including the Care Act (2014), the Care and Support Statutory Guidance (Department of Health, 2018) and related legal duties.

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