Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP)

Developing a safeguarding culture that focuses on the personalised outcomes desired by people with care and support needs who may have been abused is a key operational and strategic goal. SABs, therefore, may want to consider the role they can play in embedding the ‘Making Safeguarding Personal’ approach across agencies by establishing and developing:

• a broader participation strategy
• accessible information to support participation of people in safeguarding support
• a focus on qualitative reporting on outcomes as well as quantitative measures
• advocacy
• person-centred approaches to working with risk
• policies and procedures that are in line with a personalised safeguarding approach
• strategies to enable practitioners to work in this way, by looking at the skills they need and the support they are getting to enable this shift in culture.