Government guidance
Guidance on developing and implementing multi-agency policies and procedures to protect adults with care and support needs from abuse and neglect
NHS One Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board
Brings together health, social care, public health and other public, voluntary and community sector partners. NHS Gloucestershire ICB works to help keep people healthy, support active communities and ensure high quality, joined up care when needed.
For more information click on the link below:
NHS Gloucestershire ICB (nhsglos.nhs.uk)
Adult Safeguarding: Roles and Competencies for Health Care Staff Intercollegiate Document
This document is relevant to all health care professionals and social care colleagues. It is designed to be used in all organisations that provide or commission health care for adults regardless of sector, setting or size.
The document relates to individuals of 18 years and over and is concerned with the competencies required to support adult safeguarding. It focuses on the knowledge and skills needed to undertake this important and core professional role. To ensure adults receive proactive and high quality safeguarding it is important that the workforce are also familiar with the relevant associated legislation and guidance that supports adults to make decisions.
The full document can be accessed by using the link below
Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner - Safer Gloucestershire
The key aims of Safer Gloucestershire are to:
Reduce demand for public services through early intervention and a preventative approach.
Ensure services are centred on people and communities, while working with those people and communities
For further information, use the link below
Prevent
Prevent is about safeguarding people and communities from the threat of terrorism. It aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism and violent extremism.
At the heart of Prevent is safeguarding children and adults and providing early intervention to protect and divert people away from being drawn into terrorist activity.
Prevent addresses all forms of extremism but continues to ensure resources and effort are allocated on the basis of the greatest threat to national security.
Further details can be found at
Prevent duty guidance - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)