Useful links & Resources

KMSAB Resources

• 10 Rules of Record Keeping
• Adult Abuse Leaflets
• Competence Framework
• Domestic Abuse Sibling on Sibling Awareness Briefing
• e-learning foundation module
• End of Life Care
• Financial Abuse and Exploitation Briefing
• Kent and Medway Safeguarding Audit Tool
• KMMH Professionals Meetings - Guidance for Practitioners
• Kent and Medway Psychological Support 
• Legal Frameworks and Interventions
• Managing Diabetes and Mental Health 
• Recognising the emotional wellbeing of adults following significant life changes
• Sharing SAR Learning - Best Practice
• What makes a good referral?

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Local Resources

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS)

• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards - Kent
• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards - Medway
• DoLS 7 minute briefing (Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust)

Discriminatory abuse

• What is Discriminatory Abuse? (Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership)

Domestic abuse

• Brain Injury and Domestic Abuse Briefing
• Domestic Abuse and Suicide Briefing Paper
• How to find Domestic Abuse Support in Kent (British Sign Language) (youtube.com)
• KCC Domestic Abuse Projects and Partnerships Team (newsletter sign up)

Financial abuse

• Spot the signs of Financial Abuse- Public Protection Kent
• Financial Abuse Toolkit (for access to the appendices, please contact internal.audit@kent.gov.uk)

Mental Capacity 

National Resources

Mental Capacity Act 2005:

• Code of Practice
• Making decisions

Mental Capacity Resources (39 Essex Chambers)

• Carrying out and recording capacity assessments

College of Policing

NHS England - guidance to support implementation of the MCA in acute trusts for adults with a learning disability

Templates and toolkits

Best Interest Decision Making Guidance (Worcestershire SAB)

Mental Capacity Toolkit (Bournemouth University)

Mental Capacity Act Template (Norfolk SAB)

• Preparing for an MCA assessment

Training and videos

Understanding Mental Capacity (The Open University)

Shedinars - Mental Capacity Law and Policy

Other resources

Frequently Asked Questions (Northamptonshire SAB)

7 minute briefing (Waltham Forest SAB)

How misinterpretation of 'unwise decisions' principle illustrates value of legal literacy for social works (Community Care)

Mental Capacity Act and Coercion Guidance Sheet

Mental Health

• Need help in a mental health crisis? Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
• Suicide Prevention Team Resources
• Highlighting the link between autism and suicide
• Mind - Mental Health
  • Section 117 aftercare
  • Discharge from hospital when sectioned

Missing adults

• Kent and Medway Protocol for adults missing from health and care settings
• Herbert Protocol (Safe and Found)
• Forcer Protocol (Safe and Found)

Neurodiversity

• Diagnostic overshadowing and how it impacts on people with a learning disability and autistic people (Local Government Association)
• KCHFT - Adult Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Service
• National Autistic Society
• Safeguarding practice with autistic people - a brief guide (Solihull SAB)
  

Prevent

• PREVENT referral form
• Prevent and Channel (KCSMP)
• The Prevent Duty in Education
• Kent and Medway Prevent Team Leaflet
• Kent and Medway Prevent and Channel Posters
• Guidance on reporting Hate Crime
• Report online material promoting terrorism or extremism
• Prevent Duty Training (Gov.uk website)

Self-neglect

• Kent Fire and Rescue Service - Self-Neglect clutter score guidance
• Kent Fire and Rescue Service - Self-Neglect clutter image rating 
• Working with complexity: self-neglect, substance misuse and mental capacity - 3 minute briefing

Think Family

• KMSAB Think Family Toolkit
• Family Composition Chart
• Culturagram

Trauma Informed Practice

• Working definition of trauma-informed practice (Gov.uk)
• SPACE Matters (Kent and Medway)
• 7 minute briefing on trauma informed approaches (Norfolk Safeguarding Adults Board)
• Trauma Informed Recovery Orientated Language (Oxford Safeguarding Adults Board)

Other local resources

• Hate Crime Leaflet
• Kent and Medway Joint Dual Diagnosis Protocol
• Kent and Medway ICB - 7 minute briefing supporting vulnerable EU nationals applying for settled status
• Kent and Medway Information Sharing Agreement
• Local account for adult social care
• Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) - Video for professionals
• Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) - professional referral pathway flowchart
  

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Resources for Charities and Voluntary Sector

Ann Craft Trust

• Safeguarding Resources and Guides
• Safeguarding Checklist - Free Assessment

Charities Commission

• Safeguarding and protecting people for charities and trustees
• Safeguarding for charities and trustees

Department for Culture Media and Sport

• Guidance on handling safeguarding allegations in a charity

Local Government Association

• Safeguarding resources

NCVO

• NCVO - Safeguarding

SCIE

• Safeguarding and charities

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National

• • Alcohol Change UK webinar - Safeguarding Vulnerable Dependent Drinkers
  • Alcohol Change UK - The Blue Light Approach
  • Ann Craft Trust
  • County lines – for social housing staff: posters
  • Department of Health - pressure ulcers and the interface with a safeguarding enquiry
  • Detecting and preventing financial abuse of older adults
  • Executive function animation 
  • Executive Functioning Grab Sheet (Lancashire, Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen SABs)
  • Female Genital Mutilation - mandatory reporting, procedural information
  • Forced Marriage - information and practice guidelines for professionals
  • Gaining access to an adult suspected to be at risk of neglect or abuse: a guide for social workers and their managers in England
  • Handling cases of forced marriage
  • How to use legal powers to safeguard highly vulnerable dependent drinkers
  • Human Trafficking Foundation - trafficking survivor emergency support fund
  • Learning from tragedies: an analysis of alcohol-related Safeguarding Adult Reviews 
  • Lets talk about it (ltai) - working together to prevent terrorism
  • Liberty Protection Safeguards Resources
  • Local Government Association - Safeguarding Resources
  • Pressure Ulcers and the interface with a safeguarding enquiry
  • Safeguarding adults - roles and responsibilities in health and care services
  • Social Care Institute of Excellence
  • Tackling inequalities in care -SCIE
  • Thematic SAR - Self-neglect (Dudley Safeguarding People Partnership)
  • Think Family Toolkit
  • Think Family Checklist for Practitioners - Bexley SAB
  • Understanding what constitutes a safeguarding concern and how to support effective outcomes.

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National Legislation

• Action Counters Terrorism (ACT)
• Care Act 2014 - Section 42
• Care Act 2014 Part 1: Factsheets
• Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
• Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004
• Fraud Act 2006
• Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Mental Capacity Act 2005 - Forms and Guidance
• PREVENT - channel duty guidance - April 2015
• Sexual Offences Act 2003