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…
Categories: Health
This video is a short introduction to self-harm. Three peer practitioners, from Self-Harm Network Scotland (who have lived experience of self-harm) discuss some assumptions surrounding self-harm. They stress that self-harm is usually related to an…
Categories: Trauma
This hour-long webinar looks at what independent advocacy is and why advocacy would be involved from an ASP perspective. The different services describe their role in independent advocacy, and there are case studies showing advocacy in action.
This…
Categories: Participation
This toolkit clarifies the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) process for Scottish First Responders by explaining the process in detail and in an easy-to-follow format. It aims to help ensure that the quality of information included in NRM referrals is…
Categories: Human trafficking, Exploitation
The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is a framework for identifying and referring potential victims of modern slavery and ensuring they receive the appropriate support. This guidance is to assist designated first responders in completing the referral…
Categories: Human trafficking, Exploitation, National guidance and frameworks
This quiz accompanies the powerpoint presentation on recognising and responsding to human trafficking. Ten questions, on facts about and understanding of human trafficking, can be used to promote cement knowledge on this topic. Answers are included.
Categories: Human trafficking, Exploitation
This powerpoint presentation aims to support practitioners to:
Describe what human trafficking is
Recognise and identify key indicators of human trafficking
Know what actions they should take if human trafficking is suspected.
Accompanying this…
Categories: Human trafficking, Exploitation
This learning report shares the experience of improving the response to human trafficking in a rural local authority. It is a culmination of the work of a short life working group and national support agencies. It clearly sets out the learning points…
Categories: Human trafficking, Exploitation
The purpose of this guidance, from Scottish Borders, is to support an effective and robust response to any adult and child potential victim of trafficking, to ensure they receive the support they are entitled to, are protected and able to recover from…
Categories: Human trafficking, Exploitation
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
