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
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
A chronology is a record of significant events, recorded in the order they occur. Events may be either positive or negative, but they reveal patterns of behaviour, and their impact on an individual’s life. This suite of resources, developed by the Pan…
Topic: Chronologies, Forms and templates
The Pan Lothian chronologies working group was established by NHS Lothian in collaboration with NHS National Services Scotland in 2018. This evaluation report covers their work in developing, testing, and implementing a chronologies tool. Key findings on…
Topic: Chronologies, Service improvement
A powerpoint presentation outlining the TILS risk clarification approach. TILS stands for Type of harm, Imminence, Likelihood, Severity of impact. This presentation aids understanding of the approach, and includes several case examples where TILS can be…
Topic: Risk assessment
This is the template for the TILS risk clarification tool (Type of harm, Imminence, Likelihood, Severity of impact). It aids practitioners to think about the information they have on risk (and what they may still need to work out). It enables plotting of…
Topic: Risk assessment
Explanation of the TILS risk clarification tool (Type of harm, Imminence, Likelihood, Severity of impact) via a worked case example. The case concerns 'John', an 80 year old man who has been found lost and confused while regularly walking outside, late at…
Topic: Risk assessment
A risk assessment framework to support risk analysis and SMART action planning in Adult Support and Protection work. Outlines the principles of risk assessment, including the TILS framework (Type of harm, Imminence, Likelihood, Severity of impact) and the…
Topic: Risk assessment
Podcast between Neil Whettam (Learning and Development Advisor, Clackmannanshire) and Paul Comley (National Adult Support and Protection Co-ordinator) about hoarding and self-neglect. Covers what hoarding and self-neglect are, choice, capacity, assessment…
Topic: Hoarding, Self-neglect
This pack is for staff and volunteers working within care home settings. It contributes to a unified approach to addressing Adult Support and Protection concerns. At its heart is improving the lives of residents in care home settings, and responding to…
This pack is for managers working within care home settings. It contributes to a unified approach to addressing Adult Support and Protection concerns. At its heart is improving the lives of residents in care home settings, and responding to residents'…
Trauma-informed practice is a model essential to Adult Support and Protection. It is grounded in, and directed by, an understanding of how trauma affects someone's neurological, biological, psychological and social development. This 7-page briefing…
Topic: Trauma
Trauma-informed practice is a model essential to Adult Support and Protection. It is grounded in, and directed by, an understanding of how trauma affects someone's neurological, biological, psychological and social development. This briefing sets out how…
Topic: Trauma
This multi-agency guidance for managing self-neglect, hoarding and non-engagement provides a framework to complement any single agency protocol or guidance. It includes material on defining the issue, assessment, information sharing, working together to…
Topic: Hoarding, Self-neglect, Multi-agency working
