Safeguarding Adults Board Policies and Procedures

Safeguarding Adults: Multi-agency Policy and Procedures for the West Midlands

Worcestershire County Council is a signatory to “Safeguarding Adults: Multi-agency Policy and Procedures for the West Midlands”.   This guidance operates on a multi-agency basis across the West Midlands area, thereby ensuring consistency of responses and a common approach to safeguarding amongst signatory organisations.

The West Midlands guidance has been produced in consultation with health and social care representatives as well as representatives from partner agencies, such as West Mercia Constabulary.  In order to ensure that the guidance remains current in terms of legislation and best practice, it will be hosted on the Social Care Institute for Excellence website.  This will enable any changes to be made in real time.  For this reason, staff should ensure that they always refer to the current version of the guidance on the SCIE website rather than relying on printed versions which may have been super-ceded.

The West Midlands guidance requires signatory agencies to have local guidance in place explaining to staff how the procedures will be implemented within their employing organisation.  For staff working within Worcestershire County Council this guidance is in the form of Practice Guides 1 and 2, which can be found on the safeguarding adults section of the county council website. 

Where additional local multi-agency policies are required, these will be overseen by Worcestershire Safeguarding Adults Board’s Policy and Procedures Subgroup. If you have and comments upon the new Policy and Procedures, please send them to:

Sue Lawrence (Adult Safeguarding Team Manager)
Email: slawrence@worcestershire.gov.uk
or
Sarah Pilkington (Learning and Development Co-ordinator for Adult Protection)
Email spilkington@worcestershire.gov.uk

Click on the link below to access the Policy and Procedure which is hosted on the SCIE website:

  West Midlands Safeguarding Adults Policy and Procedure

Worcestershire Safeguarding Adults Board Guidance

• Information Sharing Guidance and Flowchart (PDF 81 KB)
• Assisted Suicide Policy (PDF 37 KB)
• CPS Assisted Suicide Policy
• Serious Case Review Protocol (PDF 349 KB)
• Serious Case Review Policy Lower Level (PDF 134 KB)
• WSAB Thresholds Guidance for Practitioners (PDF 265 KB) - This policy is to be updated shortly.

Additional Worcestershire County Council Guidance

These local practice guides sit under the West Midlands Policy and Procedure and give additional best practice guidance to professionals responsible for safeguarding adults:

• Practice Guide 1 - Decision Making Tool (PDF 182 KB) 
• Practice Guide 2 - Process for Community Social Work Teams (PDF 66 KB) 
• Practice Guide 3 - Adult Protection Investigations (PDF 368 KB) 
• Practice Guide 4 - Sexual Relationships (PDF 100 KB) 
• Practice Guide 5 - Self Neglect (PDF 57 KB) 
• Information leaflet - Guidance for service users (PDF 68 KB) 
• Information leaflet - Guidance for external agencies (PDF 98 KB) 

This page was last reviewed 25 April 2013 at 17:54.
The page is next due for review 22 October 2014.