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Adult safeguarding observed : how social workers assess and manage risk and uncertainty / Jeremy Dixon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dixon, Jeremy, author.
- Series:
- Policy Press scholarship online.
- Policy Press scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities--Abuse of--Great Britain--Prevention.
- People with disabilities.
- Older people--Abuse of--Great Britain--Prevention.
- Older people.
- Social workers--Great Britain.
- Social workers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii,164 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol Policy Press 2023
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Applying sociological and ethnographic research to adult safeguarding for the first time, this book considers how frontline practice is developing, exploring safeguarding adults assessments and multi-agency work. The book is essential reading for those wishing to understand risk management and how current practice can be improved.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1 The problem of adult safeguarding
- 2 Risk and social work
- 3 Referrals and assessments
- 4 Personalised safeguarding: policy, principles and practice realities
- 5 Doing adult safeguarding with service users and carers
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Jan 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9781447357322
- 1447357329
- 9781447357308
- 1447357302
- 9781447357315
- 1447357310
- OCLC:
- 1391098767
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