Multi-Agency Abuse Of Adults: A Case Study

In this essay, I will be evaluating the role of multi-agency working to reduce the risk of abuse of adults, with reference to legal frameworks, regulation, working strategies and procedures. The multi-agency policy & procedures was for prevention of abuse of vulnerable adults in the need of safeguarding.
The multi-agency police apply to all vulnerable adults in need of safeguarding and all agencies will have contact with vulnerable adult in need of safeguarding. A multi-agency working is different models of multi-agency working together for the benefits of vulnerable adults. The important of multi-agency working together is that they are able to share information in order to protect vulnerable adults and prevent them from harm. The organisations …show more content…
To ensure that the staff can take actions which is required by the procedures and be able to investigate into an incident and ensure a meeting should be taken between relevant agencies. When those in the multi-agency are investing, alerted they would need to ensure they take the allegation seriously and their comment to be treated confidentially but their concerns may be shared if they or others are at risk. If they are a vulnerable adult they would be given immediate protection from risk and danger. All vulnerable adult are dealt with fairly and in a non-discriminatory manner and they would be kept informed of action that has been taken and it’s outcome as far as …show more content…
Another barrier within the agency is that there would be different types of priorities between each of the agencies which can result in an argument of which priority is more important than which. Another barrier is the lack of charity over roles and responsibility which is staffs can have an argument and disagreement on what roles the staff to take due to the fact many staffs might want to take an important role. This would lead to the staffs and members to conflict over the roles and responsibility they want to take which can cause a lot of problems and which could mean the staff paying less attention on vulnerable adult. Working with a Multi-agency has been said to be difficult due to the fact a recent study about working and safeguarding adults found that working with multi –agency was viewed as time consuming, hard to coordinate and with the multiple agencies involved a difficult means by which to reach an agreement in decisions making. The problems about multi-agency was that it was said to be time constraints meaning there wasn’t enough time to do the certain things they can do. When working within multi-agency is that there was a heavy workloads; indicating that there was a lot to do. The