This webinar explores the challenges professionals face when individuals are "out of sight" - and what more we can do to ensure they are not out of mind, or at risk of harm.
Drawing on recent Adult Support and Protection (ASP) Learning Reviews, the…
This review relates to the care and protection arrangements for Adult O, age 81. Adult O lived alone and died from injuries caused by a house fire in the early hours of the morning on 22 February 2022, following a visit to the Emergency Department the…
This review was commissioned by the Highland Adult Protection Committee (APC) in August 2021. It relates to the care and protection arrangements for three brothers, Hugh, David and Roderick McCulloch.
Themes and learning points in this review include…
This document offers good practice guidance to support Partnerships in developing systems for gathering feedback from adults at risk (and their significant others) on their experience of being involved in Adult Support and Protection. This includes making…
This is a community of practice for members, sub-group members, and associate members of CPC Scotland and APC Conveners Scotland; and the Social Work Scotland ASP sub-group. It aims to provide a space for members to connect with each other, to exchange…
Topic: Learning Reviews
This report is a joint national overview of learning review activity. Data in this report is drawn from learning review notifications from 19 adult protection committees (APCs) and 15 child protection committees (CPCs).
During the reporting periods,…
Topic: Learning Reviews, Service improvement
This video presentation outlines the work of the Dying Homeless project, which aims to document and remember with love every person who dies while homeless in the UK. This presentation particularly focuses on harm and risk to people while homeless,…
Topic: Homelessness, ASPire recordings
This is an ASPire webinar from August 2025. Its theme is sharing positive case studies and strength-based practice in Adult Support and Protection. It has sessions from Dundee HSCP (on strength-based practitioner reflection); South Ayrshire HSCP (on GIFRE…
A video supporting Adult Support and Protection professionals to understand ASP case conferences and to help make them effective for adults at risk. This is a 'bitesize' version of the full online learning resource, Multi-agency Adult Support and…
Topic: Case conferences
Following on from the Understanding Age report, an online session brought together Learning and Development (L&D) colleagues to understand how they disseminate the resource in their local areas. This report captures their thoughts and experiences,…
This short video explains key concepts relating to professional curiosity. It accompanies the resource pack on the same subject.
Please note that this resource is from an English local authority (Waltham Forest). The context is different but its messages…
Topic: Service improvement, Decision-making
This resource pack aims to raise awareness about embedding professional curiosity in practice. It can be used in team meetings, as part of group/individual supervision, or for individual professional development.
It includes several practical tips and…
Topic: Service improvement, Decision-making
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…
This presentation, and accompanying defensible-decision making framework, form the basis of a one-day training session.
Topics covered in the session are:
The concept of defensible decision-making and how it differs from decision-making
The impact of…
Topic: Decision-making
This seven-minute briefing describes Adult Support and Protection Committees (ASPCs). It includes material on the background to ASPCs, the Chief Officers Group (COG), the ASPC's membership, and its aims and objectives.
There is also an accompanying…
Topic: Service improvement
This Powerpoint presentation describes the role and function of Adult Support and Protection Committees (ASPCs). It includes material on the background to ASPCs, the Chief Officers Group (COG), the ASPC's membership, and its aims and objectives.
There is…
Topic: Service improvement
Defensible decision-making, in the context of Adult Support and Protection in Scotland, involves making decisions that are well-founded, transparent, and can be justified. This is a series of three training sessions, in Powerpoint, that look at ASP…
Topic: Decision-making
This is a seven-minute briefing of the first national multi-agency framework for Adult Support and Protection learning and development. The framework has been produced to support the delivery of Adult Support and Protection learning. Within it, core…
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…
This work planner and powerpoint presentation outlines the role of the second person / secondary worker within an Adult Support & Protection investigative interview.
It includes information and supporting exercises on:
The role of the second person…
