Clinical governance and adult safeguarding: an integrated process

The report on the consultation on the review of No Secrets highlighted that adult safeguarding systems were underdeveloped within the NHS. Respondents argued that there is a need to clarify the relationship between adult safeguarding, adverse incident reporting, patient safety and complaints.
The guidance and flow chart has been developed to encourage organisations to establish local robust arrangements to ensure that adult safeguarding becomes fully integrated into NHS systems.

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Safeguarding Adults: A Consultation on the Review of the ‘No Secrets’ Guidance

The Department of Health, the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice have launched the national consultation on the review of the No Secrets guidance.

The consultation is for everyone - it has questions for social workers, and housing officers, for police officers and for lawyers. It has questions for members of the public and for service users.

Click here for further information.

The Protection of Vulnerable Adults List: An Investigation of Referral Patterns and Approaches to Decision-Making

In 2005, the Department of Health (DH) commissioned and funded Kings College London to undertake a review of the first 100 referrals to the POVA list and their research report was published on the DH website on 26 July 2005. DH also commissioned and funded this second phase of research to provide a more in-depth study aimed at exploring the factors leading to a placement on the POVA list, which addressed the following questions: what factors are associated with decisions to place referred staff onto the POVA list; are there any commonalities and any differences within a sample of referrals to the POVA list; and how are decisions being made about whether to place referred staff on the list? Read the summary and full reports.

Adult Protection Toolkit for Domiciliary Care Agencies

This toolkit should signpost homecare providers to everything they need to write or review policies and procedures for protecting vulnerable adults from harm. Find out more here.