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Safeguarding vulnerable adults policy and procedure

Warwickshire inter-agency safeguarding vulnerable adults policy and procedure (pdf, 20Mb).

Overview of the safeguarding vulnerable adults procedure (pdf, 135Kb).

The individual parts of the document can be downloaded from the documents and downloads section, but a brief summary of each section is below:

Section 1 - safeguarding alert (alerter's guide)

This section gives guidance on how to recognise vulnerable adult abuse, how to respond to it, and how to report it and applies to anyone who works with vulnerable adults.

Section 2 - safeguarding initial assessment

This section gives guidance to agencies that are responsible for responding to referrals of vulnerable adult abuse, through the initial assessment stage- ensuring immediate safety & support, gathering information and making required checks to establish whether the referral does need to go through the full safeguarding adults assessment process.

Section 3 - safeguarding full assessment

This section outlines how to plan and carry out the safeguarding adults assessments or investigations.

Section 4 - safeguarding plan and review

This section outlines how to plan and review protection and prevention of abuse plans.

Section 5 - procedural flowcharts

Detailed flowcharts outlining actions through the stages of the safeguarding adults procedure.

Section 6 - underpinning policy

This sections outlines the details of relevant policy to guide practice.

Section 7 - appendices

  • Appendix a - guidance and criteria for the use of the IMCA service in adult protection cases.
  • Appendix b - ADSS protocol for inter-authority investigation of vulnerable adult abuse.
  • Appendix c - schedule 15 of the 2010 section 75 agreement- the safeguarding schedule.
  • Appendix d - safeguarding adults strategy meeting templates.

Root Cause Analysis tool - internal investigations (msword, 601kb)

Root Cause Analysis is an investigative tool used to understand why an incident has occurred. Things do go wrong, and unwanted incidents and outcomes can occur. RCA provides a way of looking at incidents to understand the causes of WHY things go wrong. If we understand the contributory factors and causal factors – the Root Causes – of an incident or outcome, we can put in place corrective measures. By directing corrective measures at the root cause of a problem (and not just at the “symptom” of the problem, i.e. the unwanted incident or outcome), it is hoped the likelihood of the problem reoccurring will be reduced. In this way we can prevent unwanted incidents and outcomes, and improve the quality and safety of the service we provide.