Recording Skills in Safeguarding Adults: Best Practice and Evidential Requirements

by Jacki Pritchard, Simon Leslie

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849051125
Publisher:	Kingsley, Jessica Publishers
Publication date:	11/15/2010
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

1 The Need for this Book and How to Use It 9

2 The Purpose of Keeping Records 20

3 Access to Records and Information Sharing 32

4 Back to Basics: Good Recording Skills 48

5 Tools, for Effective Recording 73

6 Evidential Requirements 1: Preserving and Presenting the Evidence 94

7 Evidential Requirements 2: Pre-alert to Case Conference 118

8 Risk Assessment and Developing Safeguarding Plans 143

9 Minute-Taking in Safeguarding Adults Meetings 175

10 Report Writing for Court 202

References 214

Index 216

Editorial Reviews

I found much in this book to challenge current established practice in record keeping. There is a refreshing rigour and clarity of thought that will help the reader with much more than safeguarding.

Caring Times