This guide, aimed at the general public (especially older people), sets out the different types of abuse. It outlines actions people can take to keep themselves safe, and actions to take if someone is being abused. National helpline numbers are included.
Categories: Older people
This report sets out the significant themes found in Adult Support and Protection learning reviews / significant case reviews between October 2022 and November 2023. It includes information regarding notification of learning reviews, reviews the…
Categories: Learning Reviews, Service improvement
This document contains several tables, each of which provides short extracts from the Acts for comparison purposes. These include:
Who is subject to the provisions of the ASP, AWI and MHCT Acts
A short overview of Orders, Warrants and Certificates
The…
Categories: Legislation, Adults with Incapacity
This downloadable six-page leaflet is in Easy Read format and sets out what domestic abuse is. It is for anyone experiencing domestic abuse, or who is worried about someone else. The leaflet also sets out many different ways in which people can get help…
Categories: Learning disability, Domestic abuse
This learning resource is designed to support the development of knowledge and understanding of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000. It aims to support and promote people’s rights in the application of the Act in health, social work and social…
Categories: Adults with Incapacity, Legislation
This podcast captures a conversation between members of the National Chronology Group. Aspects of chronology practice discussed include key challenges, emerging positive practice, helpful tools, improving the analysis of chronologies, and personal…
Categories: Chronologies
This document sets out the principles, standards and code of best practice that underpin good independent advocacy practice. It has been developed for use across Scotland, to ensure that independent advocacy is being delivered consistently and is of the…
Categories: Participation
This good practice guide sets out the law and basic principles related to independent advocacy. This guidance aims to help practitioners make sure that advocacy is encouraged and that the
advocate plays an important role in care and treatment, as intended…
Categories: Legislation, Participation
This guidance is intended to provide a useful overview for a range of practitioners tasked with safeguarding the welfare and finances of adults who lack capacity. It should help provide professionals and relatives/adults with some confidence in…
Categories: Financial harm, Adults with Incapacity
The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 imposed a duty on local authorities and health boards to collaborate to ensure the availability of independent advocacy services in their area. The Act gave everyone with mental illness, learning…
Categories: Participation, Legislation, Service improvement
This document offers good practice guidance about independent advocacy for adults being supported and protected under the Adult Support & Protection (Scotland) Act 2007, including at case conferences. It includes detail on the role of advocacy in…
Categories: Participation, National guidance and frameworks, Case conferences
This comms and information pack accompanies the theme of ASPire 2025, financial harm affecting older adults. It links with the video designed to raise awareness of the issue. The main comms pack contains ideas for social media posts related to financial…
Categories: Financial harm
This video, made for Scotland’s national Adult Support and Protection Day 2025, highlights financial abuse of older adults. It looks at potential signs of financial abuse, and who might be especially at risk. This video can be shared with the public to…
Categories: Financial harm
This video, made for Scotland’s national Adult Support and Protection Day 2025, highlights financial abuse of older adults. It looks at potential signs of financial abuse, and who might be especially at risk. This video can be shared with the public to…
Categories: Financial harm
This is an ASPire webinar from February 2025. Its theme is financial harm affecting older adults. It has sessions on multi-agency shared learning from the outcome of the McCulloch Brothers Review (Highland), financial harm, adult Protection and decision-…
Categories: Financial harm, ASPire recordings
This pack contains core resources, for instance on professional curiosity, that inform all ASP work. It also contains financial harm specific resources. Within the pack, there are links to numerous videos and podcasts, including those where people speak…
Categories: Financial harm
This guidance describes what is meant by hoarding, the types of behaviour exhibited, and what the impact may be on the individual and those around them. It outlines three broad approaches to addressing hoarding behaviour (single agency response,…
Categories: Hoarding
This pack contains core resources, for instance on professional curiosity, that inform all ASP work. It also contains domestic abuse specific resources. Within the pack, there are links to numerous videos, including to those of people with lived…
Categories: Domestic abuse
This pack contains core resources, for instance on professional curiosity, that inform all ASP work. It also contains hoarding specific resources. Within the pack, there are links to numerous videos, including to those of people with lived experience of…
Categories: Hoarding
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…
Categories: Health
