Polices and Procedures.

• A policy is a rules/actions you have to follow.
• A procedure is the action you are carrying out. (You follow procedure to follow a policy)
• Legislation -> policy -> procedure
• • NHS Policys are equality. Eliminate discrimination, harassment and victimisations. Welfare concretions. High standard of safecare.
• NHS England safeguarding policy is Single system view to enable integrated care​

  • Sets out the safeguarding roles, responsibilities of all organisations in the NHS​
  • Defines how they work together​
  • Outline professional leadership​
  • Collective and individual expectations​
  • Supporting legislation​
  • Equality and diversity​
  • Outlines the key principles to safeguard children, young people and adults at risk of harm or abuse​
  • Annual review​
• • A policy is a deliberate system of principles/rules to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. ​
  • A policy is a statement of intent of what an organisation wants to run like.​
  • The organisation itself comes up with the policies based on the legislation ​
• • The procedure is the way this policy carried out (action).​
  • Essentially, they are a detailed guideline and instruction that support your overarching safeguarding policy statement.​
  • They then need to be followed by every member of that organisation​
• PROCEDURES

  • They are guided by current government policy​
  • They include the standards/ principles that are required to be followed by everyone AKA what actions/behaviour they should be doing to keep people safe​
  • If they are not followed, then the consequence could be court prosecutions or fired for those responsible for breaking them/not following and putting others at risk​
• POLICIES

  • Can be national or local​
  • Can be set out an organisations systems’ and how it plans to meet its legal requirements​
  • State what an organisation hopes to achieve i.e. their aims​
  • They are NOT law, but they can include guidance for those using them​
  • Not following them may result in individuals being harmed, damage to an organisations reputation, dismissal from job role and/or mistakes being made​

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• The following policies link to safeguarding:​

  Whistleblowing policy​- Reporting concerns or suspicion of a concern to correct authority.

  Confidentiality policy​- Ensuring patient information is keep private and is on a need to know basis.

  Health and Safety policy​

  Disclosure and Barring Service Policy​- DBS