This guidance provides organisations and practitioners in Renfrewshire with information to support the effective Adult Support and Protection chronology practice. This includes initiation, maintenance and application of single agency and/or a multi–agency…
Categories: Chronologies
This video sets out basic knowledge on hoarding behaviour. It looks at why and how people hoard, trauma, and how hoarding behaviour can run in families (including in children). It also includes material on the Clutter Rating Scale, which helps with…
Categories: Hoarding, Risk assessment
This video, presented by Lisa Cox of Scottish Fire and Rescue, defines a hoarding disorder and its key attributes. It looks at origins, prevalence, risk, assessment, and effective working with people affected by hoarding. The video also covers Diogenes…
Categories: Hoarding, Self-neglect, Risk assessment
This guidance sets out the definition and importance of a chronology. It highlights the information that should be included, and how it might be organised (including a RAG rating for risk). A template is included.
Categories: Chronologies
This presentation was delivered in April 2024 to a joint Child Protection / Adult Support and Protection meeting. It explains the significant case review / learning review of Margaret Fleming, who was murdered late 1999/early 2000. The review sought to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Categories: Chronologies
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,…
Categories: 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…
Categories: Learning Reviews, Service improvement, Multi-agency working
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.
Categories: Learning Reviews, Self-neglect, Hoarding, Multi-agency working
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,…
Categories: 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…
Categories: Exploitation, ASPire recordings
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.…
Categories: Learning Reviews, ASPire recordings
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…
Categories: Legislation, ASPire recordings
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…
Categories: Learning disability, Legislation, ASPire recordings
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…
Categories: 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…
Categories: 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,…
Categories: Substance use
