Recording Skills in Safeguarding Adults
Subtitle: Best Practice and Evidential Requirements
Contributors: Leslie, Simon
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780857002297
Subjects: Social Science
Description: 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, o.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Recording Skills in Safeguarding Adults: Best Practice and Evidential Requirements; The Need for this Book and How to Use It; The Purpose of Keeping Records; Access to Records and Information Sharing; Back to Basics: Good Recording Skills; Tools for Effective Recording; Evidential Requirements 1: Preserving and Presenting the Evidence; Evidential Requirements 2: Pre-alert to Case Conference; Risk Assessment and Developing Safeguarding Plans; Minute-Taking in Safeguarding Adults Meetings; Report Writing for Court; References; Index.