I'm a student, who is wondering whether anyone else has noticed a
change to working practices/perceptions as a result of the relatively
new introduction of safeguarding in relation to vulnerable adults?
Also, having superficially compared different publically available
policies from different universities, there seem to be discrepancies.
For example, some make reference to staff as vulnerable adults, some
don't, and some suggest that they can self identify as such (unlike
students), which doesn't seem to fit.
Some seem to lump "vulnerable adults" in with children, and thus use
quite perjorative language when talking about adults.
I also feel that some statements contained within policies can be
alarming from a human rights/social model perspective, as (for
example), one policy I found reserved the right to refuse admittance
to vulnerable adults if the measures needed for safeguarding were
unreasonable/disproportionate.
However, those are probably very superficial questions, but I thought
it was something that might make for an interesting debate.
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