Risk enablement: Frontline Briefing (2016)
The Care Act 2014 places emphasis on the general duty of the local authority to promote the wellbeing of people who use services. Enablement is a key skill for practitioners in achieving this objective, because it offers people as much independence and control over their daily lives as possible. Practitioners are also required to identify when people who use services are at risk of harm and promote their safety.
Both control over daily life and personal safety are identified as specific areas of social care that relate to achieving individual outcomes (see ASCOT, page 13). There are times when work towards an outcome in one of these areas can help to improve the outcome in the other.
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Developing confident and capable social workers | The role of social workers | Person-centred practice | Safeguarding | Mental capacity | Effective assessments and outcome based support planning | Direct work with individuals and families
CQC - Caring
PCF - Values and ethics | Rights, justice and economic wellbeing | Intervention and skills
RCOT - Understanding relationship | Service users | Develop intervention | Evaluate impact | Communication
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