This presentation was delivered by the Care Inspectorate in April 2024 to a joint child protection / Adult Support and Protection meeting. It sets out the background to both children's and adults learning reviews, and themes that can be pulled out from…
Type: Presentations
This presentation was delivered in April 2024 to a joint child protection / Adult Support and Protection meeting. Key points are shared on how Dundee has worked towards a closer relationship between child protection and ASP services. This includes…
Type: Presentations
This presentation was delivered in April 2024 to a joint child protection / Adult Support and Protection meeting. Children and adults are defined in different ways in legislation. While ASP is applicable to someone over 16, child protection may be…
Type: Presentations
This presentation was delivered in April 2024 to a joint child protection / Adult Support and Protection meeting. It gives an overview of the Iriss work on chronologies. This includes some major challenges in creating effective chronologies, suggestions…
Topic: Chronologies
Type: Presentations
Dundee City Council’s Protecting People team have ideveloped a robust trauma-informed approach when working with people with lived experience. This report describes how adults with lived experience influence and contribute to local decision-making,…
Topic: Participation, Service improvement, Trauma
This informal learning review follows a series of crisis meetings that led to the hospital admission of 'A22'. It particularly concerns a whole-family approach to Adult Support and Protection and taking a multi-agency approach in this. Issues discussed…
This informal learning review is based on a request made by the Mental Welfare Commission (MWC). Issues covered in this review include self-neglect, hoarding behaviour, multi-agency working, chronologies, and professional curiosity.
This informal learning review is based on findings from the 2022 Adult Support and Protection joint inspection in Perth and Kinross. Issues covered in this review include emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD), self-harm, multi-agency working,…
Topic: Learning Reviews, Multi-agency working
This video, from the ASPire 2024 conference, defines and explores 'sextortion' scams. These are financially motivated sexual extortion scams which involve the threat of sharing sexual information, images, or clips to extort money. Forms of sextortion are…
Type: ASPire recordings, Videos
This video, from the ASPire 2024 conference, sets out the key messages from Adult Support and Protection Learning Reviews. This includes common factors leading to a Learning Review, most prominent types of harm, and how Learning Reviews impact practice.…
Topic: Learning Reviews
Type: ASPire recordings, Videos
This video, from the ASPire 2024 conference, explores the issue of undue pressure. This includes when it's relevant, how it is defined, and how it is proved. The video particularly sets out the legal context and challenges in proving undue pressure is (or…
Topic: Legislation
Type: ASPire recordings, Videos
This video, from the ASPire 2024 conference, explores the case of 'AB'. This person had mild-moderate learning disabilities and a long-term medical condition, and died aged 52. Alongside AB, the case highlights the role of CD, who repeatedly thwarted AB's…
Topic: Learning disability, Legislation
Type: ASPire recordings, Videos
The Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 is guided by a number of principles recognising the importance of adult participation. This guidance explains the Chair's role during multi-agency ASP conferences (commonly known as case conferences) in…
Topic: Participation, Case conferences
The Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 is guided by a number of principles which recognise the importance of adult participation. This guidance sets out practitioner's responsibilities and best practice in promoting an adult's participation…
Topic: Participation
This guidance assists practitioners responding to people with alcohol dependence issues who may also present risk(s) to themselves and/or others. The guidance includes potential considerations when alcohol is an issue, challenges to engagement,…
Topic: Substance use
This video is for residential care and care-at-home services. It helps them understand their responsibilities when responding to allegations that a care worker is causing harm to a person. This might be through deliberate acts or through neglect. The…
Topic: Care providers
Type: Videos
This factsheet is for residential care and care-at-home services. It helps them understand their responsibilities when responding to allegations that a care worker is causing harm to a person. This might be through deliberate acts or through neglect. It…
Topic: Care providers
This document sets out the legislative basis for the council officer role. It also covers the activities required in Scottish Borders in order to maintain accreditation. This includes training and participation in particular groups and activities. It…
Topic: Service improvement, Legislation
This document sets out the legislative basis for the council officer role. It also outlines the training expected by Scottish Borders in the council officer role, the ongoing learning required, and the final approval process for accreditation. It…
Topic: Service improvement, Legislation
This protocol was developed in Renfrewshire to augment the duty to refer and cooperate process in Adult Support and Protection. It outlines the processes when there is disagreement as to ASP issues. This includes disagreements related to concerns,…
Topic: Risk assessment, Multi-agency working
