Jacki Pritchard, Simon Leslie

Recording Skills in Safeguarding Adults (eBook, ePUB)

Best Practice and Evidential Requirements

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Recording Skills in Safeguarding Adults is the comprehensive guide to keeping accurate, effective and complete records in safeguarding adults work.

This book explains why good record-keeping is essential: it covers crucial skills in recording, including how to write effectively; evidential requirements when writing statements and reports for court; and minute-taking. The book includes best practice points, exercises and examples of good recording. Each chapter also features informative, anecdotal experiences and comments from experts in safeguarding adults work, including police and lawyers, on what is needed in written records and how to present evidence clearly and persuasively.

This book is essential reading for all safeguarding adults practitioners who are required to keep records, including social workers, probation officers, nurses, support workers, residential and day care staff, volunteers and advocates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857002297
• Artikelnr.: 38240843

Autorenporträt

Jacki Pritchard practises as an independent social worker and is registered with the General Social Care Council. She is Director of the company Jacki Pritchard Ltd which provides training, consultancy and research in social care and also produces training materials. Jacki specialises in working directly with victims of abuse and was the founder of the organisation Beyond Existing, Support Groups for Adults Who Have Been Abused. Jacki has written widely on the subject of adult protection and has been Series Editor of the Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice series, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, since 1993. Simon Leslie is a qualified solicitor and is Team Principal of the Berkshire Joint Legal Team which advises and represents a consortium of local authorities in Berkshire on all aspects of adult and children's social care. He designs and provides training on a range of legal topics related to social care, and has contributed to publications on adult protection.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Need for This Book and How to Use It. 2. The Purpose of Keeping
Records. 3. Access to Records and Information Sharing. 4. Back to Basics:
Good Recording Skills. 5. Tools for Effective Recording. 6. Evidential
Requirements 1: Preserving and Presenting the Evidence. 7. Evidential
Requirements 2: Pre-alert to Case Conference. 8. Risk Assessment and
Developing Safeguarding Plans. 9. Minute Taking in Safeguarding Adults
Meetings. 10. Report Writing for Court. References. Index.