Safeguarding Across the Life Span

Download or read book Safeguarding Across the Life Span written by June Keeling and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering safeguarding across the life span and placing it within a multiagency context, this book gives students a grounding to the key issues in safeguarding today, highlighting the key skills and knowledge necessary for effective practice along the way. It includes reference to the latest legislation, skills for practice, a breadth of contexts and service-user groups, drawing on a range of case studies, activities, reflective questions and recommending reading from across health and social care. Locating age specific concerns in context and divided into sections which cover every stage of life, it addresses questions of culture, gender and problems frequently encountered in practice and what these mean for safeguarding and law.