Adult Safeguarding Observed: How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty

by Jeremy Dixon

Book Overview

Chapters 1, 3 and 5 are available Open Access under CC-BY licence. Safeguarding adults at risk of abuse or neglect is a core area of social work practice but knowledge of how social workers make adult safeguarding decisions is limited. Applying recent sociological and ethnographic research to this area for the first time, this book considers how adult safeguarding practice is developing, with a focus on risk management. The author explores how social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447357299
• ISBN13: 9781447357292
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"