National guidance and frameworks

The guidance aims to provide a framework that can be used across Scotland, with a view to improving the quality and efficacy of Large Scale Investigations (LSIs). The guidance also aims to achieve greater consistency across Scotland in how LSIs are commenced, conducted, concluded and reported on. The guidance supports using LSIs as a planned and structured intervention wherever possible, while recognising that LSIs will also need to be flexible and respond to changing circumstances.

This document offers good practice guidance to support Partnerships in developing systems for gathering feedback from adults at risk (and their significant others) on their experience of being involved in Adult Support and Protection.

This document has been designed for health care staff and the teams they work with. It supports staff to identify the competencies they need in order to provide personalised, and culturally sensitive, adult safeguarding.

It is designed to be used in all organisations that provide or commission health care for adults regardless of sector, setting or size. It is also designed to be used by all services who are commissioned to work directly with children but need also to be competent working with adults.

This is a seven-minute briefing of the first national multi-agency framework for Adult Support and Protection learning and development. The framework has been produced to support the delivery of Adult Support and Protection learning. Within it, core competencies are set out for each different workforce level (illustrated in this briefing). The framework is intended for all staff and volunteers who might come into contact with adults as part of their role, and applies across all organisations operating in Scotland.

This guidance is to support fair payment for people's time and expenses in co-production and/or participation projects, including research projects.

This guidance provides:

The UNCRC is a treaty that establishes the fundamental rights of children, applying to all persons under 18 years of age.

These are safeguarding standards for GPs and anyone working in any general practice setting in the UK. The standards combine and include both safeguarding children and adults and are a whole life course document.

This guidance supports NHS organisations to increase the number of people with learning disabilities employed in NHS services. The accompanying toolkit aims to raise awareness, provide information on reasonable adjustments, and break down some of the barriers that both employers and potential employees may face. It aims to help create a culture which welcomes people with learning disabilities and promotes equitable access to job opportunities.

The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) is a UK law that brings the rights enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into domestic law, making them directly enforceable in UK courts. It ensures that all public authorities in the UK, including the government, must act compatibly with these human rights.

Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) is Scottich Government's commitment to provide all children, young people and their families with the right support at the right time.

The GIRFEC principles and values are based on children's rights. GIRFEC contains eight wellbeing indicators (SHANARRI) that describe how a child or young person is doing at a point in time.