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This document has been designed for health care staff and the teams they work with. It supports staff to identify the competencies they need in order to provide personalised, and culturally sensitive, adult safeguarding.

It is designed to be used in all organisations that provide or commission health care for adults regardless of sector, setting or size. It is also designed to be used by all services who are commissioned to work directly with children but need also to be competent working with adults.

These resources are designed to support the health workforce in relation to child and adult protection responsibilities. The resources will help workers understand and respond appropriately to those being harmed, and those at risk of harm. There are two levels to this resource: Level 1 (informed) and Level 2 (skilled).

This e-learning is part of TURAS and a free account is required to access the resource.

These are safeguarding standards for GPs and anyone working in any general practice setting in the UK. The standards combine and include both safeguarding children and adults and are a whole life course document.

This briefing outlines the standards for GPs and general practice staff from the Royal College of General Practitioners (RGCP). The briefing includes details of the safeguarding hub for general practice: this contains extensive resources aligned to the standards, including a toolkit, e-learning, and audio/visual material.

This seven-minute briefing is a primer for all staff working in health on Adult Support and Protection in Scotland. Key information on the responsibilities of health staff, the legal framework of ASP, information sharing, and health leadership is included. There are also links to further learning and guidance.

The briefing supports the RCGP safeguarding standards for general practice.

This is an ASPire webinar from November 2024. Its theme is self-evaluation and it has sessions from Ann-Marie Bruce (Chair of the national sub-group on self-evaluation), the Care Inspectorate (on the Quality Improvement Framework for Adult Support and Protection), Ronan Burke (on self-evaluation and hoarding), East Ayrshire Advocacy (on the ASP Lived Experience project) and Kenny O'Brien (on the NHS Public Protection Accountability and Assurance Framework).

The Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 defines 'adults at risk' as individuals, aged 16 years or over, who:

This is a one-page guide to the responsibilities of healthcare practitioners in Adult Support and Protection. The areas covered are background; why it matters; three-point criteria; duty to co-operate; information sharing; ASP case conferences; what to do.

This report focuses on people with learning disabilities and complex needs who are currently placed far from home. This might be in a hospital (exacerbated when someone's discharge is delayed) or in a care home. Returning people to their home area is a complex issue involving interrelated processes, agencies, and services, all of which must work together for better outcomes for individuals. This report outlines the transformational change needed to address this issue.

This investigation concerns Ms ST who had learning disabilities, cerebral palsy and diabetes, and is registered blind. She was treated in hospital following a neck fracture. Ms ST was deemed fit for discharge, however, she remained in hospital due to prolonged disagreement between family, health professionals and the Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) about discharge plans.