Useful guides and resources (by topic)

Advocacy

• Commissioning advocacy under the Care Act: Emerging good practice - Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) (December 2016)

• Easy read information from The Advocacy People that explains more about advocacy support in needs assessments, safeguarding and when making complaints to the NHS 

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 

Carers

• Carers and safeguarding: a briefing for people who work with carers (Local Government Association, February 2022)
• Adult Carer Survey Report 2023 - a report about forgotten, neglected and burnt out informal carers (Carers Trust, September 2023)

County Lines

• Home Office County Lines Criminal exploitation of children and vulnerable adults: county lines

Critical reflection

Diversity (See also 'Equality' and 'Inclusion')

Dependent Drinkers 

• Alchohol 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)

Equality

• Improving Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Resources for Homelessness Services - A set of learning resources that aim to support staff working in homelessness services to learn about fundamental elements of equality, diversity and inclusion policy and practice (Care Knowledge, March 2024)
• Evaluating the Experiences of a Staff Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Reflective Space - An evaluation of a staff equality, diversity and inclusion reflective space within a community psychological therapies team (Care Knowledge, March 2024)

Exploitation

• NWG toolkit - Criminal, Civic and Partnership Disruption Options for Preparators of Child and Adult victims of Exploitation

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.

Hoarding

• Clutter Image Rating - Hoarding disorders UK 

• Hoarding from the point of view of the hoarder video clip, produced by Birmingham Safeguarding Adults Board

Inclusion

Isolation (See also 'Loneliness')

• Multiple Long-Term Conditions, Loneliness and Social Isolation - A scoping review of current literature on the association of multiple long-term conditions with loneliness and social isolation, and identify current gaps in the literature and limitations that are yet to be addressed (Care Knowledge, March 2024)

LeDeR

• Learning from Lives and Deaths; People with a Learning Disability and autistic people (LeDeR)

Loneliness (See also 'Isolation')

• The Association Between Living Alone, Loneliness and Suicide Mortality and Effect Modification by Age - A study that explored the association between loneliness and living alone and suicide mortality risk in England (Care Knowledge, March 2024)

Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP)

• Making Safeguarding Personal health, adult social care and ageing Guide 2014 - Local Government Association (LGA)

Mental Health

• Geographical Variation in Perceptions, Attitudes and Barriers to Mental Health Care-Seeking Across the UK
  A study that aimed to assess the key factors that influence mental health care-seeking intention (Care Knowledge, March 2024)

• World Health Organisation (WHO) diagnostic manual for mental, behavioural, and neurodevelopmental disorders. The manual offers guidance to clinicians on how to diagnose disorders that have been recently added to the WHO’s ICD-11 handbook. These include complex post-traumatic stress disorder, gaming disorder and prolonged grief disorder. The aim is to offer better support to health professionals to enable them to recognise distinct clinical features of these disorders, which may previously have been undiagnosed and untreated.

• Modern Slavery

• Modern Slavery awareness Booklet - Home Office 

• Help for adult victims of human trafficking - HM Government

Person-centred practice

Safeguarding 

• 39 Essex Chambers, free Safeguarding podcasts

Sexual Abuse

• ‘Nobody believes you if you’re a bloke’- A study that explored the barriers to disclosure and help-seeking for male forced-to-penetrate sexual abuse victims/survivors (Care Knowledge, March 2024)

Section 42 Enquiries 

• Department of Health and Social Care document 'Supporting people living with dementia to be involved with adult safeguarding enquiries' 

Strength-based

• Research in Practice for adults Developing strengths-based working
• Social Care in Excellence (SCiE) Strengths-based approaches (SBA) resources
• Department of Health and Social Care document: 'Strengths-based approach: Practice Framework and Practice Handbook'

Trauma-informed

• The effectiveness of trauma informed approaches to prevent adverse outcomes in mental health and wellbeing - Public Health England 2021
• Trauma-informed approaches: a critical overview of what they offer to social work and social care - research by Iriss (2023)

Wellbeing