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This page gives you a list of resources that should inform practice, along with other legislative resources, advice on relevant training and Prevent.

To support your Continual Professional Development (CPD) we have created a CPD Reflective Log for your use. Please feel free to use this to track, and reflect on, the professional development that you complete using our resources.

You can read our learning briefing and listen to our accompanying 4 minute podcast on 'what is safeguarding'. View the What is Safeguarding podcast transcript.

You will also find more information on our What is Safeguarding webpage.

On 28 January 2022, the Department of Health and Social Care published an Independent report ‘Revisiting safeguarding practice,’ with a foreword by the Minister of State for Care and Mental Health.

The report sets out the importance of practice principles integral to safeguarding adults to make sure statutory responses are informed by a consistent person-centred approach.

This guidance is designed to assist practitioners and providers across agencies to understand what is meant by Making Safeguarding Personal and how to apply it to safeguarding situations.

Read the Making Safeguarding Personal Learning Briefing.

Please also listen to the accompanying 4 minute podcast on making safeguarding personal. View the Making Safeguarding Personal podcast transcript.

A person-centred approach means putting the Adult with care and support needs at the centre of any process or decision in order to support their needs, goals, and outcomes to be met. This approach moves away from professionals deciding what is best for an Adult by making them central to the planning of their care and support.

To find out more, read our Person-Centred Approaches Learning Briefing, and listen to our Person-Centred Approaches podcast. View the Person-Centred Approaches podcast transcript.

Professional curiosity is the capacity and skills of communication to explore and understand what is happening for a person rather than making assumptions or accepting things at face value. It requires skills of looking, listening, asking direct questions and being able to hold difficult conversations.

Find out more about professional curiosity in the Professional Curiosity Learning Briefing.

You can also listen to our 6 minute Professional Curiosity Podcast in conjunction with reading the Learning Briefing. View the Professional Curiosity podcast transcript.

Risk Assessment is the process of working with an adult to maximise safety and to reduce future risk.

Find out more about the purpose of Risk Assessment, the benefits, and the approaches, in our Risk Assessment Learning Briefing.

You can also listen to our 8 minute podcast, covering the six key steps to completing a safeguarding Risk Assessment, and important considerations when undertaking a Risk Assessment. The transcript for this podcast is available on our website.

Self-neglect is an extreme lack of self-care, to an extent that it threatens personal health and safety, and it is sometimes associated with hoarding and may be a result of other issues such as addictions. It can sometimes be a result of underlying issues such as:

addiction or substance misuse issues
physical health issues
some mental health issues

Find out more about self-neglect by reading our Learning Briefing, and listen to the accompanying 7 minute self-neglect podcast. View the self-neglect podcast transcript.

Practitioners can follow the pan-Sussex policies and procedures which have a specific section on Multi-Agency Procedures to Support Adults who Self-neglect.

Domestic abuse refers to abuse and harm by either a current or ex-partner, family relation or live in carer.

In order for domestic abuse to be considered under the safeguarding pathway, the victim needs to have care and support needs.

Please read the West Sussex County Council domestic abuse guidance which focuses on coercion and control with consideration of mental capacity and, the accompanying Top Tips document.

You can find out more from the pan-Sussex Safeguarding Policies and Procedures section on domestic abuse.

Please also see our Safeguarding Thresholds document section on domestic abuse and, the different types of abuse and harm

You can listen to our 9 minute podcast, with the voice of a young person about how we aim to safeguard young people between the ages of 17.5 to 25. View the Safeguarding Young People podcast transcript.

This can be listened to in conjunction with our Safeguarding Young People 17.5+ Protocol.

You can also read our learning briefing which accompanies the protocol and the podcast.

To find out more about the Sussex Adult Death Protocol, you can read our 7 minute briefing.

The Sussex Adult Death Protocol offers a framework for bringing together key agencies to ensure effective collaborative working, rapid risk assessment and information sharing.

The National Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) Analysis Project has developed various briefings intended for a range of audiences. The briefings have incorporated the research findings by examining published SARs, and identifying the learning required.

Briefing for elected members - Analysis of Safeguarding Adults Reviews