The aim of this document is to provide guidance for multi-agency staff supporting adults with care and support needs who are at risk of harm as a result of self-neglect and/or hoarding. The protocol looks, in detail, about the possible reasons for self-…
Categories: Self-neglect, Hoarding, Decision-making
The aim of this Self Neglect and Hoarding Protocol and Toolkit is to provide practitioners in Orkney with a toolkit for assessment and intervention, where appropriate. The guidance contains information on what hoarding and self-neglect are, legal duties,…
Categories: Hoarding, Self-neglect
This guidance is intended to provide a concise overview of what hoarding is. It outlines some of the issues that practitioners should take into account when supporting or providing a service to people affected by hoarding disorder. The resource includes…
Categories: Hoarding
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…
Categories: Service improvement, Hoarding, Participation, Health, ASPire recordings
The Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 defines 'adults at risk' as individuals, aged 16 years or over, who:
are unable to safeguard themselves, their property, rights or other interests;
are at risk of harm; and
because they are affected…
Categories: Health, Legislation
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.
Categories: Health, Multi-agency working
This webinar looks at two specific areas. For the first two sections, Anne Hayne considers the overlaps and gaps in Adult Support and Protection and domestic abuse provision. In the final section, Frances Toland shares Renfrewshire's trauma-informed…
Categories: Trauma, Domestic abuse, ASPire recordings
This podcast is a conversation between Vicki Low (Moray) and Ellen Daly (Iriss). Vicki talks to Ellen about the improvement work she led around chronologies. Topics covered include getting started, impact, messaging and measurement, and gaining support.…
Categories: Chronologies
This tool aims to help leaders assess their current understanding of and practices related to chronologies. Challenges with chronologies are complex and connected, so this tool supports leaders to recognise readiness for change and find a place to start.…
Categories: Chronologies
This tool provides a structured way for professionals to consider systematically whether an adult requires a formal assessment of their capacity for decision making. It is designed to support professionals to consider key factors relating to an adult’s…
Categories: Adults with Incapacity, Decision-making, Forms and templates
This is a quick guide to the Grampian pathway for capacity assessments for protection-based decisions. The pathway clarifies the process for seeking a capacity assessment where there are protection-based decisions linked to concerns about mental…
Categories: Decision-making, Adults with Incapacity
This eight-minute video explains the pathway for capacity assessments for protection-based decisions in Grampian. The pathway clarifies the process for seeking a capacity assessment where there are protection-based decisions linked to concerns about…
Categories: Adults with Incapacity, Decision-making
This pathway is designed to clarify the process for seeking a capacity assessment where there are protection-based decisions linked to concerns about mental incapacity. Included with the pathway are guidance notes, information on escalation arrangements,…
Categories: Adults with Incapacity, Decision-making, Forms and templates
The quality improvement framework (QIF) is a tool to support Adult Support and Protection partnerships. It helps partnerships to carry out multi-agency self-evaluations of their Adult Support and Protection arrangements, critical in order to drive…
Categories: National guidance and frameworks, Service improvement
The Scottish Government recognises forced marriage to be a form of gender-based violence and, where children are victims of forced marriage, child abuse. It may be associated with other forms of domestic abuse and “honour based” abuse. Forced marriage can…
Categories: Exploitation, Domestic abuse
The Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007: Code of Practice indicates that an inquiry can be undertaken by a non-Council Officer, unless there is a need to use investigative powers. It also stipulates that ‘Good practice would ensure that a…
This document supports all those in the workforce who are working with people affected by mental health difficulties. It aims to strengthen awareness and understanding of trauma-informed practice. The document provides context, key messages and practice-…
Categories: Trauma
This document is designed to support all professionals working with people affected by alcohol/drug use and/or their families. It aims to strengthen awareness and understanding about trauma-informed practice. Each section provides guidance for how…
Categories: Substance use, Trauma
This document supports all professionals working with women, children and young people affected by domestic abuse, and/or perpetrators. It aims to strengthen awareness and understanding about trauma-informed and domestic abuse-informed practice. Each…
Categories: Trauma, Domestic abuse
This is a one-page tool designed to help professionals stay on track when supporting adults with a hoarding disorder (or who display hoarding behaviour). It is a checklist that helps remind professionals of key strategies in their response. These include…
Categories: Hoarding