Videos

This video, made for Scotland’s national Adult Support and Protection Day 2025, highlights financial abuse of older adults. It looks at potential signs of financial abuse, and who might be especially at risk. This video can be shared with the public to raise awareness and contains helplines who can offer support. A shorter version is also available.

The transcript of the video is attached.

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 video is a short introduction to self-harm. Three peer practitioners, from Self-Harm Network Scotland (who have lived experience of self-harm) discuss some assumptions surrounding self-harm. They stress that self-harm is usually related to an underlying issue, and talk together about how self-harm can be a way for the person to attempt to control, or cope with, another issue in their lives.

This hour-long webinar looks at what independent advocacy is and why advocacy would be involved from an ASP perspective. The different services describe their role in independent advocacy, and there are case studies showing advocacy in action.

This session was produced as part of ASP week 2025. It was created in collaboration with the network of different independent advocacy agencies in Dundee.

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.