Hampshire, IOW, Portsmouth and Southampton 4LSAB Multi-Agency Safeguarding Adults Policy and Guidance

4LSAB Multi-Agency Safeguarding Adults Policy and Guidance (July 2023)

The Safeguarding Adults Boards in Portsmouth, Southampton, Hampshire and Isle of Wight (4LSAB) produce a wealth of policies, procedures and guidance on a range of topics relevant to safeguarding adults. While the 4LSAB are responsible for writing, updating and promoting these documents, they will only truly be effective if they are fully embedded into all organisations. The checklist below is intended for all organisations to use to ensure that a new or updated 4LSAB document is embedded in their own practice and procedures.

4LSAB Checklist for embedding policies

Hampshire Safeguarding Adults Board has developed jointly with the Southampton, the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth Safeguarding Adults Boards, a local Multi-Agency Safeguarding Adults Policy and Guidance which set out how local agencies will work together. Please use the links below to view the policy:

4LSAB Safeguarding Concerns Guidance

The purpose of the 4LSAB Safeguarding Concerns Guidance is to support the decision making and reporting of adult safeguarding concerns, in order to impact positively on outcomes for people with a need for care and support, who are at risk of or experiencing abuse or neglect. This framework sits alongside the 4LSAB Multi-Agency Adult Safeguarding Policy, Process and Guidance 2020 and draws on the Care Act 2014 and accompanying statutory guidance and connects to the LGA and ADASS framework ‘Making decisions on the duty to carry out safeguarding enquiries’.

4LSAB Safeguarding Concerns Guidance (Oct 2020)

4LSAB Multi-Agency Protocol for Pressure Ulcers and Adult Safeguarding (Oct 2020)

4LSAB Multi-Agency Protocol for Falls and Adult Safeguarding (Oct 2020)

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Understanding what constitutes a safeguarding concern: FAQs

This page considers frequently asked questions (FAQs) raised during webinar sessions (December 2020 to March 2021, LGA ADASS), the subject of which was the suggested multi-agency framework to support understanding what constitutes a safeguarding concern (LGA/ADASS, 2020). This is referred to as ‘the concerns framework’ throughout.

Understanding what constitutes a safeguarding concern: FAQs

National Safeguarding Concerns Quick Guides

Quick Guide 1 – Working with Definitions

Quick Guide 2 – Understanding what constitutes a safeguarding concern

Quick Guide 3 – Flowcharts

4LSAB Multi-Agency Fire Safety Framework

Multi Agency Fire Safety Framework – May 2021

The Multi-Agency Fire Safety Framework has been developed to provide all frontline staff and other professionals who are responsible for delivering care and support services with support and guidance for the effective management of fire risks within the home or residential setting.

How can the Fire Safety Framework help you?

This tool will help to provide an awareness of:

The key risk factors for individuals who have an increased vulnerability towards fire.
An understanding of the impact this vulnerability to fire can have on the individual, neighbouring occupants or other residents.
The early interventions and control measures available to ensure such risks can be managed in the most effective way.

Vulnerability Risk Factors include:

The person (an individual’s physical abilities / cognitive impairments)
Their behaviours
Their living environment

National Safeguarding Adults Guidance Adopted Locally

Bridging the Gap – Transitional Safeguarding and the role of social work with adults

This briefing is for people involved in safeguarding adults and social work and is aimed at all those committed to ensuring high quality social work with young adults, from practitioners and people receiving support through to strategic leaders across local safeguarding partnerships. It is relevant to practitioners, senior leaders and other social care professionals providing support across local safeguarding partnerships.

This briefing:

Describes what transitional safeguarding is, why it is needed and how the contribution of adult social work is essential to developing and embedding a more transitional approach to safeguarding young people into adulthood.
Focuses on sexual and criminal exploitation.
Aims to inform, inspire change and celebrate the contribution of the adult social work sector.

The document draws on evidence from research and knowledge from local areas in order to describe what Transitional Safeguarding is, why it is needed and how the contribution of adult social work is key to developing and embedding a more transitional approach to safeguarding young people into adulthood. Whilst Transitional Safeguarding is about a wide range of issues that affect a young person’s safety and wellbeing, this briefing particularly focuses on sexual and criminal exploitation. This is in recognition of the significant harmful impact these have on young people’s lives and the need to share effective and promising practice in this area across the country. This briefing aims to inform, inspire change and celebrate the contribution of the adult social work sector to this important agenda.

Guidance for people with dementia on safeguarding enquiries

This guidance is intended to inform the work of practitioners in England. It is split into two parts. Part 1 provides a summary of the evidence. Part 2 of the guidance focusses on what might be done to support people living with dementia to be involved in the prevention of abuse and neglect and in finding resolution where it occurs. This guidance has primarily been written to inform the work of social workers undertaking safeguarding work with people living with dementia.

Understanding what constitutes a safeguarding concern and how to support effective outcome (LGA and ADASS, September 2020)

This framework connects with the framework on ‘Making decisions on the duty to carry out Safeguarding Adults enquiries (LGA/ADASS, August 2019). It is based on work at three LGA/ ADASS multi-agency workshops (facilitated by Making Connections, Isle of Wight Ltd) in November and December 2019 together with a follow up workshop in January 2020 which clarified the emerging findings and themes from the earlier workshops.

Adult Safeguarding and Homelessness (ADASS, March 2020)

The information within this briefing on relevant legal rules, and the components of effective practice that follow, are relevant with respect to all those who have housing-related needs, including individuals and families in temporary accommodation as a result of domestic abuse and/or relationship breakdown.

Making Safeguarding Personal Toolkit (Local Government Association, January 2020)

The toolkit is set out in a modular format with a summary of key areas. These areas range from models, theories and approaches to skills and areas of specialism that safeguarding practitioners need to be aware of. It can be used as a practitioner guide for pointers on how to respond to individual cases, or as a starting point resource for service development. It has been designed as a resource that will develop over time and allow updates and amendments to be made as development takes place or innovative and effective practice comes to light.

Making Safeguarding Personal for SABs (LGA and ADASS)

This resource is part of a suite of resources to support safeguarding adults boards and partners in developing and promoting Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP). It supports Boards both in their assurance role and in actively supporting and leading a culture change towards Making Safeguarding Personal.

MSP – what ‘good’ looks like for Advocacy Services (LGA and ADASS)

This code of practice for advocacy details the core principles within the Advocacy Charter. This provides guidance for advocates and their managers, aimed at providing clarity, support and boundaries for their practice. It is also a guide for commissioners of advocacy services, outlining the expectations and purpose of the role and what people with support needs, as well as commissioners, should expect from the delivery of the service. If these principles are applied consistently within advocacy practice in safeguarding adults then this will support delivering Making Safeguarding Personal and Care Act principles.

MSP – What might ‘good’ look like for the Police (LGA and ADASS)

This summary sets out the headlines of what should be developed and worked on by the police – the essential steps – to make safeguarding personal. These essential steps are expanded on throughout the main body of the resource in section 4 of the document, with suggestions for how and why these steps should be achieved.

MSP – What might ‘good’ look like for HSC commissioners and providers (LGA and ADASS)

This summary sets out the headlines of what should be developed and worked on by commissioners and providers in health and social care − the essential steps − to make safeguarding personal. These essential steps are expanded on throughout the main body of the resource in section 4 of the document, with suggestions for how and why these steps should be achieved.

Making decisions on the duty to carry out safeguarding adults enquiries (LGA and ADASS – 2019)

This framework has been produced by the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS). It is based on work at two LGA/ADASS workshops in November 2018. The purpose of this framework is to offer support in making decisions about whether or not a reported safeguarding adults concern requires an enquiry under the Section 42 (S42) duty of the Care Act (2014).1 It offers a framework to support practice, recording and reporting, in order to impact positively on outcomes for people and the level of accountability for those outcomes.

Pressure ulcers: how to safeguard adults – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

This protocol provides a framework for health and care organisations to draw on when developing guidance for staff in all sectors and agencies that may see a pressure ulcer. If the staff member is concerned that the pressure ulcer may have arisen as a result of poor practice, neglect/abuse or an act of omission, the local guidance should be clear about what steps they need to take and whether the local authority safeguarding duties are triggered.

Resources relating to the Care Act 2014

Care Act 2014 Statutory Guidance (Department of Health, 2014)

The legal framework for the Care Act 2014 is supported by this statutory guidance which provides information and guidance about how the Care Act works in practice. The guidance has statutory status which means that there is a legal duty to have regard to it when working with adults with needs of care and support and carers.

On 10^th March the Department of Health published the refreshed edition of the Care and Support statutory guidance. The statutory guidance supports implementation of part 1 of the Care Act 2014 by local authorities, the NHS, the police and other partners. The new edition supersedes the version issued in October 2014. It takes account of regulatory changes, feedback from stakeholders and the care sector and developments following the postponement of social care funding reforms to 2020. The guidance is being published as an online document and the new format is intended to be read online and so has improved navigation and search functionality. Not all chapters have been revised and some have only received minor clarifications to improve understanding following feedback from the sector.

Statutory Guidance to the Care Act 2014 (Updated March 2024)

The link below indicates where changes have been made and provides more detail on the more significant changes.

List of Changes to the Care Act 2014 Statutory Guidance (March 2024)

Mental Capacity Act 2005 Code of Practice (Department of Constitutional Affairs, 2007)

The legal framework provided by the Mental Capacity Act 2005 is supported by this Code of Practice (the Code), which provides guidance and information about how the Act works in practice. The Code has statutory force, which means that certain categories of people have a legal duty to have regard to it when working with or caring for adults who may lack capacity to make decisions for themselves.

Mental Capacity Act 2005 Code of Practice