1. Sussex Safeguarding Adults Policy

• 1.1

  Sussex Safeguarding Adults Policy
  - 1.1.1 Introduction
  - 1.1.2 Statutory safeguarding principles
  - 1.1.3 Multi-agency working
  - 1.1.4 Making Safeguarding Personal
  - 1.1.5 Key principles informing this policy
  

2. Sussex Safeguarding Adults Procedures

• 2.1

  Sussex Safeguarding Adults Procedures
  - 2.1.1 Preventing harm and abuse
  - 2.1.2 Prevention in safeguarding
  - 2.1.3 Promoting wellbeing
  
• 2.2

  Recognising and Reporting Abuse and Neglect
  - 2.2.1 Introduction
  - 2.2.2 Who may be at risk of abuse or neglect?
  - 2.2.3 Scenarios in which abuse may take place
  - 2.2.4 Raising a safeguarding concern
  - 2.2.5 Consent and empowerment of the adult when raising a safeguarding concern
  - 2.2.6 What happens next?
  
• 2.3

  Receiving Concerns and Undertaking Enquiries
  - 2.3.1 Introduction
  - 2.3.2 Responding to safeguarding concerns
  - 2.3.3 Undertaking a safeguarding enquiry
  - 2.3.4 Interface with other investigations and reviews
  - 2.3.5 Assessing and managing risks
  - 2.3.6 Safeguarding meetings
  - 2.3.7 The local authority causing others to make enquiries
  - 2.3.8 Safeguarding where there is a health / clinical concern
  - 2.3.9 Involving an adult in an enquiry
  - 2.3.10 Identifying outcomes
  - 2.3.11 Working with the person thought to be the cause of risk
  - 2.3.12 Concluding a safeguarding enquiry
  
• 2.4

  Safeguarding and Criminal Investigations
  - 2.4.1 Introduction
  - 2.4.2 Suspected Criminal Offences
  - 2.4.3 Consent
  - 2.4.4 Safeguarding enquiries and criminal investigations
  - 2.4.5 Safeguarding Investigation Units
  - 2.4.6 Achieving Best Evidence interviews
  - 2.4.7 Appropriate Adults
  - 2.4.8 Sexual Assault Referral Centre
  - 2.4.9 Vulnerable Victim Fraud
  - 2.4.10 Multi-agency Public Protection Arrangements
  - 2.4.11 Information sharing within criminal investigations
  - 2.4.12 Principles of preserving evidence
  
• 2.5

  Safeguarding and Managing Allegations against People in Positions of Trust
  - 2.5.1 Introduction
  - 2.5.2 Conduct or behaviours which may pose a risk to adults
  - 2.5.3 Responsibilities of all employers
  - 2.5.4 Interface with employers' responsibilities and safeguarding enquiries
  - 2.5.5 Referrals to the Disclosure and Barring Service
  - 2.5.6 Referrals to professional bodies
  
• 2.6

  Safeguarding and Quality of Care
  - 2.6.1 Introduction
  - 2.6.2 Responsibilities for quality in care and support services
  - 2.6.3 When do concerns about quality require a safeguarding concern to be raised with the local authority?
  - 2.6.4 Responding to organisational abuse
  
• 2.7

  Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse
  - 2.7.1 Introduction
  - 2.7.2 Understanding definitions of domestic abuse
  - 2.7.3 Risk to Others
  - 2.7.4 Working with people experiencing domestic abuse
  - 2.7.5 Consent and capacity in relation to domestic abuse
  - 2.7.6 Responding to disclosures and safe enquiries
  - 2.7.7 Assessing and managing risks
  - 2.7.8 Specialist services
  
• 2.8

  Sussex Multi-agency Procedures to Support Adults who Self-neglect
  - 2.8.1 Introduction
  - 2.8.2 Flowchart - Overview of the self-neglect process in Sussex
  - 2.8.3 Self-neglect and the Care Act 2014
  - 2.8.4 Self-neglect: signs and causes
  - 2.8.5 Working with adults who self-neglect
  - 2.8.6 Self-neglect and mental capacity
  - 2.8.7 Collaborative multi-agency working
  - 2.8.8 Comprehensive assessment of neglect (including risk assessment)
  - 2.8.9 Multi-agency review meeting
  - 2.8.10 Legal remedies and other options
  - 2.8.11 Self-neglect: checklist for practitioners
  
• 2.9

  Safeguarding and Prevent
  - 2.9.1 Prevent
  - 2.9.2 Channel
  - 2.9.3 Making a referral
  - 2.9.4 Resources
  
• 2.10

  Adult Safeguarding and Sharing Information
  - 2.10.1 Introduction
  - 2.10.2 Why do we need to share adult safeguarding information?
  - 2.10.3 What if an adult does not want their information shared?
  - 2.10.4 How to improve communication and joint working
  

3. Legislation, National Guidance and Toolkits

• 3.1

  Legislation, National Guidance and Toolkits
  - 3.1.1 Introduction
  - 3.1.2 The Care Act 2014
  - 3.1.3 Child Sexual Exploitation
  - 3.1.4 Corporate Manslaughter
  - 3.1.5 Coroner's Services and Investigations
  - 3.1.6 Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015
  - 3.1.7 Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
  - 3.1.8 Domestic Violence and Abuse
  - 3.1.9 Female Genital Mutilation
  - 3.1.10 Forced Marriage
  - 3.1.11 Gaining Access to an Adult at Risk
  - 3.1.12 Health and Social Care Act 2008
  - 3.1.13 Human Rights Act 1998
  - 3.1.14 Inter-Authority Safeguarding Arrangements
  - 3.1.15 LeDeR programme
  - 3.1.16 Making Safeguarding Personal
  - 3.1.17 Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA)
  - 3.1.18 Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards 2009
  - 3.1.19 Modern Slavery Act 2015
  - 3.1.20 NHS Accountability and Assurance Framework
  - 3.1.21 Office of the Public Guardian Safeguarding Policy
  - 3.1.22 Pressure Ulcer Safeguarding Adults Protocol
  - 3.1.23 Prevent
  - 3.1.24 Prevention in Adult Safeguarding
  - 3.1.25 Roles and Responsibilities in Health and Care Services
  

4. Local Policy, Guidance and Toolkits (Pan Sussex)

• 4.1

  Sussex Policy, Guidance and Toolkits
  - 4.1.1 Safeguarding Adults Boards
  - 4.1.2 Safeguarding Adults Reviews
  - 4.1.3 Safeguarding Adults: What to do if you think someone is being abused, neglected or exploited
  

5. Appendices

• 5.1

  Appendices
  - Appendix 1: Legal Remedies
  - Appendix 2: Terminology