This report explores resident-to-resident harm in care homes. Types of resident-to-resident harm include verbal (yelling, screaming), physical (hitting, kicking, pushing, throwing things), sexual (inappropriate touching, residents exposing themselves),…
Categories: Care providers, Large Scale Investigations
The joint inspections programme is led by the Care Inspectorate. It provides independent scrutiny and assurance of how partnerships ensure that adults at risk of harm are kept safe, protected, and supported. Good practice is also identified, supporting…
Following the report Chronologies in Adult Support and Protection: Moving from current to best, these case studies highlight good practice. They cover changes in the system (recording, training, guidance, analysis, risk assessment), exploring these as…
Categories: Chronologies
This briefing intends to provoke a conversation about the power of embracing risk as a natural part of decision making. It questions a blanket definition of risk, and looks at the impact of risk-averse and risk-positive cultures. It encourages reflection…
Categories: Risk assessment
Participation recognises the valuable contribution people can make in shaping services. This briefing highlights the positive role people's experiences (including in Adult Support and Protection) can bring in improving services.
Categories: Participation
Duty of candour is a professional responsibility to be honest with people. It means being open and transparent in health and social care support. It also means that services must say sorry when things go wrong. The Duty of Candour Procedure (Scotland)…
Categories: Legislation, Large Scale Investigations, Health
This briefing looks at how legislation, policy, and services use the term ‘abuse’ and related terms such as 'victim'. Use of words surrounding abuse is complex, because how we talk about abuse can vary across contexts. It is also dynamic, because societal…
Categories: Legislation
This is a short introduction into supporting adults at risk of harm to stay safer online. It helps practitioners gain awareness of online safety, helping address and explore online use with people who draw on support. It also acknowledges that technology…
Categories: Exploitation
Self-neglect is one of the key challenges in Adult Support and Protection. Research has identified that health and social care professionals often find self-neglect cases personally and professionally difficult. Ethical and legal considerations,…
Categories: Self-neglect
An online learning resource which supports professionals to improve practice in multi-agency Adult Support and Protection conferences (often called case conferences). This course goes through through the before, during, and after of a case conference.…
Categories: Case conferences
Staying safe matters every day. This video is for the public, and encourages people to think about friendships. Are your friends “good” friends, who make you feel safe and enjoy spending time with you? Or are they “tricky” friends – who leave you feeling…
Categories: Exploitation
Adult Support and Protection is everyone's business. This video animation, made for Scotland’s national Adult Support and Protection Day 2023, highlights the signs of self-neglect and neglect. The video is especially useful in highlighting the role that…
Categories: Self-neglect
This report aims to raise awareness of Adult Support and Protection and its contribution to keeping ‘adults at risk’ safe. This report introduces readers to key Adult Support and Protection definitions, duties, processes and stakeholders. It covers what…
Categories: Legislation, Service improvement
Chronologies are consistently identified across inspection reports and reviews of Adult Support and Protection activity as an area for improvement. This report scopes the existing research on chronologies, including joint inspection reports, collated…
Categories: Chronologies
The national Large Scale Investigation (LSI) framework offers a set of processes and principles helpful to those conducting and/or participating in LSIs. To help think through how these processes and principles can be realised, the framework also contains…
This short animated video explains what sextortion is and what to do if you are a victim of it. It is designed to be shared with the public.
Categories: Exploitation
A video supporting Adult Support and Protection professionals to put adults and carers at the centre of their work. This is a 'bitesize' version of the full online learning resource, Working together in Adult Support and Protection.
Categories: Participation
This report explores working with 16 and 17 year olds through Adult Support and Protection (ASP) legislation and Child Protection (CP) guidance. Included is a guidance and legislation table, which can be used as a reference for professionals working…
These three leaflets are designed to raise awareness of safer ageing and keeping older adults safe from abuse. Two are one-page flyers with helpline details, and the third offers more information, including QR codes to specific Hourglass information.
Categories: Older people
This leaflet is designed for council officers. It can be shared with adults who may be at risk (and their carers, supporters and families). Clear information about the Adult Support and Protection process is covered, including inquiry, advocacy, and case…
Categories: Participation, Service improvement
