4LSAB Multi-Agency Safeguarding Adults Policy and Guidance (July 2023)
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. The updated Policy and Guidance was published in July 2023. Please use the links below to view the policy:
Complete Document
Section 1 – POLICY AND PRINCIPLES
Section 2 – ADULT SAFEGUARDING PRACTICE
Section 3 – ADULT SAFEGUARDING PROCESS
Section 4 – GLOSSARY OF TERMS and LIST OF ACRONYMS
4LSAB Multi-Agency Guidance
Family Approach Protocol (Large Print Version)
Family Approach Protocol Toolkit
4LSAB Multi-agency hoarding Guidance 2022
4LSAB Multi-Agency Escalation Protocol June 2023
HSAB 7 Golden Rules for Information Sharing (March 2023)
4LSAB Multi-Agency Guidance on Information Sharing (June 2020)
4LSAB Multi-Agency Guidance on Honour Based Abuse, Forced Marriage and FGM (June 2020)
4LSAB Predatory Marriage – 7 Minute Briefing
4LSAB Multi-Agency Guidance on Safeguarding Adults in Commissioned Services (November 2022)
4LSAB Multi-Agency Guidance on Prevention and Early Intervention in Adult Safeguarding (June 2020)
4LSAB Multi-Agency Guidance on Modern Slavery (June 2020)
Guidance on Safeguarding in Prisons and Approved Premises (December 2016)
4LSAB Multi-Agency Guidance on Adult Safeguarding Roles and Responsibilities (June 2020)
4LSAB Multi-agency framework for managing risk and safeguarding people moving into adulthood
Easy Read Keeping Safe as you Become an Adult
4LSAB housing practitioner briefing on Homelessness
4LSAB One-Minute Guide to Professional Curiosity
4LSAB 7-Minute Guide to Professional Curiosity
4LSAB Large Scale S42 Safeguarding Enquiry Protocol (January 2023)
Making Safeguarding Personal- Easy Read (July 2023)
4LSAB Safer Recruitment Guidance (June 2023)
4LSAB Multi-Agency Risk Management Framework
4LSAB MARM (Multi-Agency Risk Management) Framework June 2023
Quick Guide to Multi-Agency Risk Management (MARM)
One Minute Guide to the 4LSAB MARM Framework
Guidance on chairing MARM meetings
What to expect if you are attending a MARM meeting
MARM Meeting Invitation Letter
Proposed MARM Agenda – Minutes
4LSAB MARM Chronology Template
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)
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
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.
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.
The Making Safeguarding Personal Temperature Check 2016 included the recommendation (p29): “… an ideal type of outcomes measurement and reporting framework should be agreed, that can be offered as a template and a means for local authorities to measure MSP progress and compare themselves to each other.” To support that recommendation, ADASS and the LGA appointed the Institute of Public Care (IPC) at Oxford Brookes University and Research in Practice for Adults (RiPfA) to develop an MSP outcomes framework that will provide a means of promoting and measuring practice that supports an outcomes focus for safeguarding adults work, including ways in which IT systems and processes can aid an outcomes approach.
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.
ADASS Advice Note: S42 Decision-Making (July 2019)
This Advice Note has been developed for ADASS members and relates to the Guidance on Making Decisions on the S42 Duty jointly developed by ADASS and LGA. 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). 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.
The aim of this guide is to clarify existing powers relating to access to adults suspected to be at risk of abuse or neglect. The safeguarding duties under the Care Act 2014 apply to an adult who has needs for care and support (whether or not the local authority is meeting any of those needs); is experiencing, or at risk of, abuse or neglect and as a result of those care and support needs is unable to protect themselves from either the risk of, or the experience of, abuse or neglect.
The guide has been created to provide information on legal options for gaining access to people who fulfil the three criteria above, where access is restricted or denied. It is intended as a reference in situations of uncertainty, rather than as a learning tool. It is important that social workers and their managers are as clear as possible on which legal powers or options apply to which situations, and in cases of any uncertainty that they consult their senior managers and/or the legal department of the local authority.
Pressure Ulcer Guidance (Department of Health and Social Care – January 2018)
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.
Guidance on Inter-Authority Safeguarding Arrangements – (ADASS – June 2016)
This provides guidance on Inter-Authority Safeguarding Adults Enquiry and Protection Arrangements. The guidance has now been reviewed and updated to reflect new safeguarding duties under the Care Act (2014) and the accompanying Care and Support Statutory Guidance (2016). This includes, as fundamental, the person-centred, outcome-focused approach enshrined in Making Safeguarding Personal and the six national safeguarding adults principles.
The purpose of this guide is to help staff to give better informed and more effective support to people who need an adult safeguarding service because of domestic abuse.
The aim of this guide is to clarify existing powers relating to access to adults suspected to be at risk of abuse or neglect. The guide has been created to provide information on legal options for gaining access to people who fulfil the three criteria above, where access is restricted or denied. It is intended as a reference in situations of uncertainty, rather than as a learning tool. It is important that social workers and their managers are as clear as possible on which legal powers or options apply to which situations, and in cases of any uncertainty that they consult their senior managers and/or the legal department of the local authority.
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 10th 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 2016, DH)
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
The Department of Health has also update the series of factsheets about the Care act 2014.
Care Act 2014 Factsheets (Updated March 2016. DH)
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
Legislation & National Policy Linked to Adult Safeguarding
Safeguarding Adults Protocol – Pressure Ulcers and the interface with a Safeguarding Enquiry (January 2018)
Policy from the Department of Health and Social Care providing guidance with the aim of assisting practitioners and managers across health and care organisations to provide caring, speedy and appropriate responses to individuals at risk of developing pressure ulcers.
Making safeguarding personal – a toolkit for responses (Local Government Association, 2015)
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 – A toolkit for responses (LGA, January 2015)
Commissioning for Better Outcomes (Department of Health, Local Government Association, ADASS, Think Local, Act Personal) (2015)
This guidance outlines standards to support a dynamic process of continuous improvement and, through self-assessment and peer review, to challenge commissioners and their partners, to strengthen and innovate to achieve improved outcomes for adults using social care, their carers, families and communities. The standards are relevant to all aspects of commissioning and service redesign, including decommissioning. The standards have been designed to reflect the improvements that experience has shown are needed, to support the transformation of social care to meet people’s reasonable aspirations, and to support the implementation of the Care Act 2014.
Commissioning for Better Outcomes
Government Statement of Policy on Adult Safeguarding (HM Government, 2013)
The document outlines the Government’s policy on safeguarding adults vulnerable to abuse and neglect. It includes the statement of principles for Local Authority Social Services and housing, health, the police and other agencies to use, for both developing and assessing the effectiveness of their local safeguarding arrangements. It also describes, in broad terms, the outcomes for adult safeguarding, for both individuals and organisations.
Statement of Government Policy on Safeguarding (DH, May 2013)
Safeguarding – roles and responsibilities in health and care services (Department of Health, Local Government Association, ADASS, NHS Confederation, Association of Chief Police Officers, 2013)
This guidance provides clarity about the roles and responsibilities of the key agencies involved in adult safeguarding. The aim is to ensure that the right things are done by the right people at the right time, working within their own agency and with partners.
Safeguarding Adults – Roles and responsibilities in health and care services
Gaining access to an adult suspected to be at risk or abuse or neglect – a guide for social workers and managers in England (SCIE,2014)
This guide clarifies existing powers and legal options relating to access to adults suspected to be at risk of abuse or neglect where access is restricted or denied. It is intended as a source of ready reference rather than as a learning tool, laying out the potential routes to resolution. It is important that social workers and their managers are as clear as possible on which legal powers or options apply to which situations, and in cases of any uncertainty that they consult their senior managers and/or the legal department of the local authority. Throughout the guide there are inks to information on the relevant legislation and case law.
Safeguarding adults from harm – a legal guide for practitioners (SCIE, 2011)
Prevention in Safeguarding (Social Care Institute of Excellence, 2011)
This guidance outlines a range of methods of preventing the abuse of vulnerable adults, from public awareness campaigns through to approaches that empower the individual to be able to recognise, address and report abuse. In addition, it examines policy and practice guidance and examples of emerging practice.
Prevention in Safeguarding (SCIE, 2011)
Information Sharing Guidance (Department of Health, March 2009)
This guidance supports good practice in information sharing by offering clarity on when and how information can be shared legally and professionally, in order to achieve improved outcomes. This guidance will be especially useful to support early intervention and preventative work where decisions about information sharing may be less clear than in safeguarding situations.
Information Sharing Guidance for Practitioners and Managers (DH)
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