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
This section contains links to SCIE resources on safeguarding and to relevant material from other organisations.
Web resources
- Social care TV - Adult safeguarding
- Social care TV - Minimising the use of restraint in care homes for older people
- Protecting adults at risk in London: Good practice resource
- Mediation and family group conferences
- Mental Capacity Act resource
- Dementia gateway
eLearning
Guides
- Guide 46: Commissioning care homes: Common safeguarding challenges
- Guide 45: Safeguarding and quality in commissioning care homes
- Guide 42: Good practice guidance on accessing the Court of Protection
At a glances
- At a glance 62: Safeguarding adults: Mediation and family group conferences
- At a glance 44: Protecting adults at risk: London multi-agency policy and procedures to safeguard adults from abuse
- At a glance 31: Enabling risk, ensuring safety: Self-directed support and personal budgets
- At a glance 16: Managing risk, minimising restraint
Reports
- Report 60: Safeguarding adults: multi-agency policy and procedure for the West Midlands
- Report 50: Safeguarding adults at risk of harm: A legal guide for practitioners
- Report 49: Assessment: Financial crime against vulnerable adults
- Report 47: User involvement in adult safeguarding
- Report 46: Self-neglect and adult safeguarding: findings from research
- Report 45: The governance of adult safeguarding: findings from research into Safeguarding Adults Boards
- Report 41: Prevention in adult safeguarding
- Report 39: Protecting adults at risk: London multi-agency policy and procedures to safeguard adults from abuse
- Report 36: Enabling risk, ensuring safety: Self-directed support and personal budgets
- Report 26: Restraint in care homes for older people: a review of selected literature
- Report 25: Minimising the use of ‘restraint' in care homes: challenges, dilemmas and positive approaches
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)
- London Joint Improvement Partnership (JIP): Serious case reviews, Adult safeguarding, London (2013)
- 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
