P4- Outline key legislation and regulations, which govern safeguarding adult work.

Key legislations and regulations which govern safeguarding adults workIn health and social care this means: | M2- Describe legislations and regulations in health and social care used to reduce the risk of two types of abuse. PHYSICAL ABUSE | M2- Describe legislations and regulations in health and social care used to reduce the risk of two types of abuse.SELF HARM | Safeguarding vulnerable groups Act 2006This legislation is to ensure that people who work with vulnerable people such as babies, children and elderly adults should be checked with the ISA to see who is not allowed to work with children this may be because they might have a criminal record in the past to do with abusing vulnerable people therefore they are barred from working with vulnerable people. | This ensures that staffs that have a previous conviction of harming others with convictions of such as GBH or ABH are reviewed before given a job. It prevents staffs that have harmed others before from harming more people at the residential care home. They may be banned from working with vulnerable people and unless checks are done the organisation will never know and someone could potentially be a victim of abuse. | | The rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974This legislation plays a role in health and social care because it takes into account the employees past criminal offences or to see if any offences have been seen as non-offending. | | | The police Act 1997The police act is to ensure that employees in a health and social care setting go through a CBR check to certify that they are allowed to work with a certain group of people. | The CBR check ensures that staff are able to work with a certain group of people such as elderly, children or babies. The CBR check allows us to see if they have been convicted of any crime