This is an ASPire webinar from February 2026. Its theme is Adult Support and Protection in supported settings.
The opening session is by Donald Macaskill (Scottish Care). He presents a rights-based approach that supports people's autonomy while…
Type: ASPire recordings, Videos, Presentations
This practitioner's guide has been produced by Perth and Kinross Child Protection Committee in partnership with practitioners from NHS Tayside and Children and Families' Social Work. It aims to provide all practitioners working directly or indirectly with…
This co-produced toolkit shares information, ideas and inspiration for anti-oppressive approaches to safeguarding adults experiencing homelessness. It explores how social justice movements can shape the support and services on offer. The resource invites…
Topic: Homelessness
Type: Learning material
This guide aims to support social workers and their managers to navigate chronologies. It provides an overview of the process applicable to a range of contexts (the resource is child- and family focused, however its principles are useful across Adult…
Topic: Chronologies
Professional curiosity is about exploring and understanding what is happening with an adult at risk and their family. This practitioner's guidance has been produced by the three Tayside Adult Protection Committees based on the Perth & Kinross Child…
This is the first national multi-agency Framework for Adult Support and Protection Learning and Development. It has been produced to support the delivery of Adult Support and Protection learning across applicable agencies and sectors.
It is intended for…
Topic: Service improvement
This is an ASPire webinar from January 2026. Its themes are supported self-evaluation, notably of adults for whom it is difficult to determine the three-point criteria, and risk assessment. The focus is especially on adults where there are escalating…
Topic: Risk assessment, Legislation, Decision-making
Type: Videos, ASPire recordings, Presentations
This learning material supports the development and delivery of reflective practice sessions on chronologies.
The session aims to support delegates to:
Understand the purpose and value of chronologies in social work
Reflect on current practice and…
Topic: Chronologies
This guidance has been developed to support practitioners across adult social work services in Aberdeen to use chronologies confidently and consistently. It reflects national expectations, local learning, and reflects the principles of trauma-informed…
Topic: Chronologies
This blog post illustrates how learning partners from the National Chronologies Group shared their experiences of improving chronology practice at a learning session. Partners were at different stages and had taken various approaches to using the tool to…
Topic: Chronologies
Type: Learning material
These three learning stories from the National Chronologies Group show how chronology practice was improved through approaches that foregrounded practitioner experience, and focused on increasing the capacity of managers to support their teams. The…
Topic: Chronologies
Type: Videos, Practice examples
These are the slides from a 5 Nations webinar held in February 2024. This series of webinars shares adult support and protection / safeguarding knowledge across the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.
The theme of this…
Type: Presentations, 5 Nations
These are the slides from a 5 Nations webinar held in May 2024. This series of webinars shares adult support and protection / safeguarding knowledge across the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.
The theme of this webinar…
Topic: Learning Reviews
Type: Presentations, 5 Nations
These are the slides from a 5 Nations webinar held in June 2024. This series of webinars shares adult support and protection / safeguarding knowledge across the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.
The theme of this…
Topic: Health
Type: Presentations, 5 Nations
These are the slides from a 5 Nations webinar held in December 2024. This series of webinars shares adult support and protection / safeguarding knowledge across the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.
The theme of this…
Type: Presentations, 5 Nations
These are the slides from a 5 Nations webinar held in September 2024. This series of webinars shares adult support and protection / safeguarding knowledge across the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.
The theme of this…
Topic: Financial harm
Type: Presentations, 5 Nations
These are the slides from a 5 Nations webinar held in February 2025. This series of webinars shares adult support and protection / safeguarding knowledge across the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.
During April 2019,…
Topic: Care providers, Health, Learning disability
Type: Presentations, 5 Nations
These are the slides from a 5 Nations webinar held in April 2025. This series of webinars shares adult support and protection / safeguarding knowledge across the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.
The theme of this…
Topic: Service improvement
Type: Presentations, 5 Nations
These are the slides from a 5 Nations webinar held in September 2025. This series of webinars shares adult support and protection / safeguarding knowledge across the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.
The theme of this…
These are the slides from a 5 Nations webinar held in October 2025. This series of webinars shares adult support and protection / safeguarding knowledge across the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.
The theme of this…
Type: Presentations, 5 Nations
