Adult safeguarding: Resources
Social care has an important role in the protection of members of the public before harm has happened and after it has happened
SCIE resources
This section contains links to SCIE resources on safeguarding. We will shortly be adding relevent material from other organisations and examples from our Good Practice Framework.
Web resources
Guides
At a glances
- Enabling risk, ensuring safety: Self-directed support and personal budgets (2010)
- Managing risk, minimising restraint (2009)
Reports
- Safeguarding adults at risk of harm: A legal guide for practitioners (2011)
- Assessment: Financial crime against vulnerable adults (2011)
- Self-neglect and adult safeguarding: findings from research (2011)
- The governance of adult safeguarding: findings from research into Safeguarding Adults Boards (2011)
- Prevention in adult safeguarding (2011)
- Protecting adults at risk: London multi-agency policy and procedures to safeguard adults from abuse (2011)
- Enabling risk, ensuring safety: Self-directed support and personal budgets (2010)
- Minimising the use of ‘restraint' in care homes: challenges, dilemmas and positive approaches (2009)
Other resources
These resources have all been produced by other organisations and SCIE is not responsible for their content.
- ADASS: Safeguarding Adults. A National Framework of Standards for good practice and outcomes in adult protection work
- ADASS: Cross boundary protocol
- British Medical Association: Safeguarding vulnerable adults - a tool kit for general practitioners (May 2011)
- Care Quality Commission: Our safeguarding protocol (July 2010)
- Care Quality Commission: Leaflet for service users and their families: What standards to expect from the regulation of your care home
- Department of Health: Safeguarding Adults: The role of NHS commissioners (2011)
- Department of Health: Safeguarding Adults: The role of health service practitioners (2011)
- Pamela Wells: Campaigning for Quality Care in Care Homes (2009)
- Pamela Wells: Choosing a Care Home (Supplement toCampaigning for Quality Care in Care Homes) (2010)
- Hull University: Practical guide to protecting people with learning disabilities from abuse in residential services
