Advocacy
- Commissioning advocacy under the Care Act: Emerging good practice - Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) (December 2016)
- Advocacy presentation focusing on safeguarding
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SSASPB partner TotalVoice Staffordshire (incorporating Voiceability and Asist) produced a short video in June 2021 about advocacy, including what it is, types of advocacy and how advocacy relates to adult safeguarding.
Call Blockers and unwanted calls
Care Act 2014
- Safeguarding in light of the Care Act - Research in practice for adults (Ripfa)
Care Homes
- NICE guidance - Safeguarding adults in care homes
County Lines
- Home Office County Lines Criminal exploitation of children and vulnerable adults: county lines
Cuckooing
- A short video produced by Staffordshire Police regarding Cuckooing; what it is, how to identify it and how to report it.
DASH Risk Assessment
Dependent Drinkers
- Alcohol Change, How to use legal powers to safeguard highly vulnerable dependent drinkers in England and Wales.
Domestic Abuse
- Controlling or Coercive Behaviour in an Intimate or Family Relationship (Statutory Guidance Framework) - Home Office (December 2015)
- Sandwell animated video on a family safeguarding approach especially in domestic abuse situations
Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs)
- Learning from DHRs in Stoke on Trent
- Learning from DHRs in Staffordshire
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, forms which may be of interest to care providers who may need to submit a DoLS assessment for those under their care.
- Request a Deprivation of Liberty in Staffordshire
- Request a Deprivation of Liberty in Stoke-on-Trent
These forms when completed must be returned to Stoke-on-Trent City Council please email: DOLS@stoke.gov.uk
Engaging adults
- Newcastle upon Tyne have published a short video on the principals of engagement, a best practice approach to responding to people who, for a range of reasons, may not be engaging with services.
Exploitation
- NWG toolkit - Criminal, Civic and Partnership Disruption Options for Preparators of Child and Adult victims of Exploitation
- West Midlands Exploitation toolkit
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
- Female Genital Mutilation Pocket Guide for health care professionals - NHS England.
Financial matters
- Keep yourself safe – how to spot the signs of common scams - A series of short films showing some common scams and how to prevent them.
Fire: Causes and Prevention
- Fire Death Factors SAME advice by Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service
Friendship
Tricky Friends is short animation developed by Norfolk Safeguarding Adults Board and adapted for use by Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Adult Safeguarding Partnership Board in January 2022. It aims to help people understand what good friendships are, when they might be harmful and what they can do.
Hoarding
- Clutter Image Rating - Hoarding disorders UK
- Hoarding from the point of view of the hoarder video clip, produced by Birmingham Safeguarding Adults Board
LeDeR
- Learning from Lives and Deaths; People with a Learning Disability and autistic people (LeDeR)
Legal Literacy
Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP)
- Making Safeguarding Personal health, adult social care and ageing Guide 2014 - Local Government Association (LGA)
'Mate' Crime
Camden People First video on 'mate' crime, a video acted by service users to instruct other service users about the dangers of 'mate' crime and what can be done about it.
Mental Capacity
- Asist Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy including 'My next patient may lack capacity' pocketbook - Asist IMCA Hospital Service
Modern Slavery
- Modern Slavery awareness Booklet - Home Office
- Help for adult victims of human trafficking - HM Government
Organisational Abuse (Institutional Abuse)
- Guidance that has been created by the SSASPB which gives an overview of what is organisational abuse and how to recognise it.
Prevent
- Staffordshire Police Prevent Strategy and Referral Form
People in a Position of Trust (PiPoT)
- West Midlands Adult Position of Trust Framework - including other West Midlands documents, West Midlands Adult Safeguarding Editorial Group (December 2018)
Safeguarding
- What is Adult Safeguarding - a presentation given by Ruth Martin Safeguarding Team Leader and acting Principal Social Worker for Staffordshire County Council hosted by Staffordshire Police about what adult safeguarding is, when to make an adult safeguarding referral and what a good referral looks like.
- What is Safeguarding, an easy read booklet produced by Change
- 39 Essex Chambers, free Safeguarding podcasts
SCIE
- Safeguarding adults - lessons from the murder of Steven Hoskin
Self-neglect
- West Midlands Self-neglect Guidance - West Midlands Adult Safeguarding Editorial Group (December 2021)
Section 42 Enquiries
Sepsis
Substance Misuse
- Recovery Hub locations - One Recovery
Terrorism/Extremism
- Safeguarding People who are vulnerable to being drawn into Violent Extremism and / or Terrorism in Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent - Prevent Channel Guidance (2019)
Tricky Friends
- A short animated video aiming to help people understand what good friendships are, when they might be harmful and what they can do.