DBS partners with Ann Craft Trust to promote Safeguarding Adults Week 2022
The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and Ann Craft Trust have teamed up during National Safeguarding Adults Week to support organisations to develop safer working practices. DBS supports employers to make safer recruitment decisions by processing and issuing criminal record checks and by maintaining the Adults and Children’s barred lists. Barred lists are records of […]
Protecting care home staff is a key to staff retention, and productivity
As the cost of living crisis hits home and energy prices soar, care homes need to consider their available resources carefully as they deliver patient care and look after the wellbeing of staff. As they do this, the sector is burdened with staffing and productivity challenges – an issue that has traditionally existed, but which […]
Top safeguarding tips for care workers
Carers can be involved in different situations when it comes to safeguarding. In most cases, they are responsible for raising the concern. However, they are also prone to harm and abuse. Sometimes, the carers can be abusers themselves. As a care worker, you need to be familiar with safeguarding. Below, refer to the top safeguarding […]
Supporting the future of family safeguarding
A number of pioneering local authorities are now implementing the effective family safeguarding model. Sinead Keeney, registered social worker and Business Application Consultant at Servelec, explains how digital case management is supporting the roll-out of the successful framework across local government… In September last year, round two of the Department for Education’s Children’s Social Care […]
Guest Blog, Sam Preston: Complexities of safeguarding children in care homes…
Sixty per cent of young people that are placed in care, are there due to abuse and neglect. Over 69,500 children and young people are currently logged in the system (that’s 60 in every 10,000 under 18s) – evidently, community multi-agency safeguarding measures are simply not enough. The interventions that we, as professional carers, put […]
