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Safeguarding
— commissioning care homes | | Author(s) | Elaine Cass |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 14, no 5, 2012 |
| Pages | pp 244-247 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/jap.htm |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Neglect [care] ; Management [care] ; Care homes ; Standards of provision. |
| Annotation | There are numerous steps that both commissioners and providers can take to improve the prevention of abuse, neglect and harm towards people in residential care. The Report on the Consultation on the Review of No Secrets (Department of Health, 2009) highlighted the need for commissioners to take more responsibility, in partnership with regulators, for safeguarding people who use services. This article is based on the content of two Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) resources that support the role of commissioners to maintain or improve the quality of services to reduce the likelihood of abuse, neglect or harm. The first looks at all of the monitoring mechanisms a commissioner can draw upon to monitor good quality without overlap with inspectors or overburdening the provider. The second looks at common areas of practice that lead to safeguarding referrals in care homes. Working with a group of 30 practitioners, comprising largely commissioners and providers, a guide to preventing some of the problems that frequently lead to safeguarding referrals from care homes was developed. The work demonstrates that commissioners could improve the quality of residential services through better partnership working and better use of available intelligence to reduce the risk to those in residential care. The guides highlighted in this article have the potential to improve practice in commissioning and, as a consequence, to provide better quality and safer residential care services. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-121116220 A |
| Classmark | QNT: QNR: QA: KW: 583 |
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