Adult Safeguarding Observed
How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Adult protection; Care act 2014; Risk and uncertainty; Safeguarding; Social workDOI
10.47674/ISBN
9781447357315, 9781447357285, 9781447357292, 9781447357308Publisher
Policy PressPublisher website
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/homePublication date and place
Bristol, 2023Classification
Sociology
Social work