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Assessing Risk of Harm – Prisha Ram (continued)

  1. Does this new information change your assessment of the risk involved?
  2. What now needs to happen? – Who would be responsible for these actions?
  3. In what way should this situation have been dealt with earlier, are there additional steps that should also have been taken? Who would do that?
  4. Can you think of any reason/s why the daughter did not report this earlier?

Thoughts of Other Learners

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1. Yes, missing money and allegations of ear pinching to make her open mouth to eat.

Rough handling of other resident

2. Investigation - Manager, but local authority on ASP concerns

3. Previous concerns should have been looked into, such as missing cash.

4. Thinking it might just be her mum's normal behaviour

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Was the actual harm underestimated?

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Are there sufficient staff numbers to cope with the range of needs and behaviours of residents?

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Prisha's daughter may have feared any complaint would have been viewed negatively and held against her mother, who is already seen as a 'problem'/'difficult' resident.

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Has Joan taken any steps since the original report by Prisha's daughter?

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Yes - the reports would suggest more than one type of harm - financial, as well as physical