Presentations

This work planner and powerpoint presentation outlines the role of the second person / secondary worker within an Adult Support & Protection investigative interview.

It includes information and supporting exercises on:

This is an ASPire webinar from May 2025. Its theme is commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) and human trafficking. It has sessions from Operation Begonia (Police Scotland and Scottish Government's collaborative approach to challenging demand for prostitution and supporting those with experience of it); the Women's Support Project (on making the links between CSE and other forms of violence against women and girls) and the TARA project (on human trafficking and exploitation in Scotland).

This is an ASPire webinar from February 2025. Its theme is financial harm affecting older adults. It has sessions on multi-agency shared learning from the outcome of the McCulloch Brothers Review (Highland), financial harm, adult Protection and decision-making (Dr Melanie Durowse), and explaining the role of the Office of the Public Guardian in relation to financial harm affecting older adults (Fiona Brown). Slides for selected sessions are also attached.

This powerpoint presentation aims to support practitioners to:

• Describe what human trafficking is
• Recognise and identify key indicators of human trafficking
• Know what actions they should take if human trafficking is suspected.

Accompanying this presentation is a quiz to test knowledge and understanding.

This is an ASPire webinar from November 2024. Its theme is self-evaluation and it has sessions from Ann-Marie Bruce (Chair of the national sub-group on self-evaluation), the Care Inspectorate (on the Quality Improvement Framework for Adult Support and Protection), Ronan Burke (on self-evaluation and hoarding), East Ayrshire Advocacy (on the ASP Lived Experience project) and Kenny O'Brien (on the NHS Public Protection Accountability and Assurance Framework).

This webinar looks at two specific areas. For the first two sections, Anne Hayne considers the overlaps and gaps in Adult Support and Protection and domestic abuse provision. In the final section, Frances Toland shares Renfrewshire's trauma-informed approach to ASP. There is also an accompanying briefing about the Renfrewshire approach.

This is an ASPire webinar from February 2026. It is a short, general introduction to Adult Support and Protection. It includes a clear description of what ASP is, types of harm, what to do if you have a concern, and examples to support learning.

Slides for the session are attached, along with additional useful links.

This resource is part of the National ASP Learning and Development Framework. It is a potential learning resource for the General workforce and the Wider workforce.

This is an ASPire webinar from August 2024.  Fiona Brown from the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) is talking about the national role and remit of the OPG, and its links to Adult Support and Protection. There is also a presentation from Pearse McCusker and Lauren Gillespie concerning supported decision making. Supported decision making aims to protect a person’s ‘legal capacity’, or their right to have their will and preferences upheld.

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 learn from Margaret's life and explicitly adopts a human rights and trauma-informed approach. The learning disability community were included within the review.

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 each. The presentation also details the Care Inspectorate developments on aligning processes between children's and adults learning reviews, and future work.