National policies, practice guidance and resources
Read more practice resources and guidance about:
- general safeguarding practice
- dementia
- domestic abuse
- forced marriage
- scams
- modern slavery
- county lines
- prevent
- channel
- homelessness
- Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
- pressure ulcers
- substance misuse
- sexual exploitation
- violence against women and girls
- Safeguarding Adults Review
- transitional safeguarding
General safeguarding practice
- Local Government Association safeguarding development
- discriminatory abuse self-assessment tool
- understanding what constitutes a safeguarding concern
- making decisions on the duty to carry out safeguarding enquiries
- gaining access to an adult suspected to be at risk of abuse or neglect
- safeguarding adults: types and indicators of abuse
- safeguarding adults in care homes: Guideline NG189
- creating a positive safeguarding culture: a quick guide for registered managers of care homes
- safeguarding people in closed environments (.pdf)
Dementia
Domestic abuse
- Domestic Abuse Disclosure Scheme
- DASH Risk Identification, Assessment and Management Model
- adults safeguarding and domestic abuse: a guide to support practitioners and managers
- toolkit for working with male victims of domestic abuse
Forced marriage
Scams
- Take Five to Stop Fraud
- Independent Age: Scams
- staying safe from fraud and scams
- report fraud to Action Fraud
Modern slavery
County lines
Prevent
Channel
Homelessness
- help if you’re homeless or about to become homeless
- City of York Homelessness Strategy
- adult safeguarding and homelessness: a briefing on positive practice
- adult safeguarding and homelessness: experience informed practice (.pdf)
- Working across housing, social care and safeguarding for Long Term rough sleepers (.pdf)
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Pressure ulcers
Substance misuse
- learning from tragedies
- safeguarding vulnerable dependent drinkers (.pdf)
- how to use legal powers to safeguard highly vulnerable dependent drinkers
Sexual exploitation
- support to overcome trauma for adult survivors of grooming and sexual exploitation toolkit (STAGE) (.pdf)
- SCIE Sexual Incidents in Adults Social Care: Evidence Review Briefing
Violence against women and girls
Safeguarding Adults Review
- National SAR Quality Markers guidance (.pdf)
- National SAR library
- First National Analysis of Safeguarding Adult Reviews
- Second National Analysis of Safeguarding Adult Reviews
- SARs in rapid time
Transitional safeguarding
- bridging the gap: transitional safeguarding and the role of adult social work
- mind the gap: transitional safeguarding: adolescence to adulthood
- transitions from children’s to adults’ services for young people using health or social care services
- transitional safeguarding resources
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