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Level 5 Diploma in Health and Social Care Management

Learning from Inquiries and Serious Case Reviews

HSC502 · Managing the Safeguarding and Protection of Vulnerable Individuals — Week 3 of 16

CourseHSC502
Week3 of 16
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This week’s topics

Learning from Inquiries and Serious Case Reviews

  1. Landmark adult safeguarding reviews
  2. Institutional failure and systemic neglect
  3. Themes of cross-agency breakdown
  4. Translating national inquiry lessons into practice
  5. London 2013 - The Mid Staffordshire Inquiry - Lessons for Healthcare - Robert Francis
  6. Safeguarding Adults: Lessons from the murder of Steven Hoskin (Updated)
  7. Professor Nick Frost, Public Lecture - Serious Case Reviews

What you will be able to do

  • 1.3 Analyse how serious case reviews have influenced safeguarding and protection.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse how serious case reviews have influenced safeguarding and protection.

Study materials

Videos

  • London 2013 - The Mid Staffordshire Inquiry - Lessons for Healthcare - Robert Francis · YouTube · HealthcareImprovementForum · 54 min · for registered students
  • Safeguarding Adults: Lessons from the murder of Steven Hoskin (Updated) · YouTube · Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) · 13 min · for registered students
  • Professor Nick Frost, Public Lecture - Serious Case Reviews · YouTube · Leeds Beckett · 48 min · for registered students
  • Robert Francis: lessons from Stafford · YouTube · The King's Fund · 9 min · for registered students
  • The Francis Report: Lessons learned · YouTube · The Health Foundation · 6 min · for registered students
  • Robert Francis: Insights into the Mid Staffordshire inquiry · YouTube · Nuffield Trust · 6 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Transforming care: a national response to Winterbourne View Hospital (DH, 2012) · Reading · GOV.UK, report · for registered students
  • Safeguarding adults in care homes (NICE guideline NG189, 2021) · Reading · Nice, guidance · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Foundations of Safeguarding and Protection
  • Week 2: Legislative Frameworks in Safeguarding
  • Week 3: Learning from Inquiries and Serious Case Reviews
  • Week 4: Recognising Signs of Abuse and Educating Teams
  • Week 5: Procedures for Responding to Suspected or Actual Abuse
  • Week 6: Balancing Positive Risk-Taking and Person-Centred Choice
  • Week 7: Instilling Preventative Cultures and Safe Practice
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Multi-Agency Partnership Working and Information Governance
  • Week 10: Service User Voice in Safeguarding Governance
  • Week 11: Auditing Organisational Practice and Policy Compliance
  • Week 12: Applying Managing the Safeguarding and Protection of Vulner…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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