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Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults |
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Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: an issue play which explores abuse of vulnerable people in care homes and day centres. The play features two members of staff who explore the many issues around abuse of vulnerable adults in care.
The play is ideal for safeguarding awareness training days and seminars and is aimed at staff at all levels. The characters in the play are forced to explore their own feelings and responses to abuse with the play also defining what exactly constitutes an abusive situation, be it physical, mental or financial.
The play was initially commissioned by the Isle of Man Depaprtment of Health and received its premier performance in April 10.
The play runs for approx 20 mins or so and features a social services manager and a member of staff. The play begins with the manager criticising some of the attitudes and behaviour shown by the member of staff when it comes to working with vulnerable adults in care. However, the member of staff turns the tables a little and starts to highlight some of the more serious examples of abuse either committed by senior management or condoned
and covered up by same.
The point of the play is to show that abuse, be it low level or more serious, can be committed by staff of all levels and should be dealt with accordingly. Of course, some of the abuse is unwittingly committed but is abuse all the same.
Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: an issue play which explores abuse of vulnerable people in care homes and day centres. The play features two members of staff who explore the many issues around abuse of vulnerable adults in care.
The play is ideal for safeguarding awareness training days and seminars and is aimed at staff at all levels. The characters in the play are forced to explore their own feelings and responses to abuse with the play also defining what exactly constitutes an abusive situation, be it physical, mental or financial.
The play receives its premier at an Isle of Man conference in April but the ideas behind the play have been kicking around writer John Dunne's head for a while. Having spent ten years working with vulnerable adults delivering a range of drama and other workshops, John knows at first hand what it's like to work with vulnerable adults and has seen abuse at the hands of staff of all levels.
"The play pretty much wrote itself," is John's response to the question surrounding research for the play. |
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