Please visit our dedicated family, friends, and carers webpage if you are concerned about the safety or wellbeing of an adult with care and support needs, or if you would just like to know more about adult safeguarding and the work of the Safeguarding Adults Board.
In June 2025 we published our Provider Learning Review . This review followed a large-scale investigation into concerns of neglect and organisational abuse in a large provider of nursing and residential care in West Sussex, which is no longer in operation. We asked our reviewer to look at the resp...
Welcome to the West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board blog, coming to you directly from the Board Support Team. Here you'll find blog posts, featuring input from subject experts, exploring key adult safeguarding topics, as well as discussions about health and adult social care policy, learning, and ...
Here you can find our latest newsletters, bringing you all the headlines and new policies, procedures and guidance from your West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board. Issue 45 | August 2026 In this issue: IMPORTANT: Sussex Adult Safeguarding Concerns: When to Refer PUBLISHED: Our 2025/26 Annual Repo...
The West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board is comprised of the following statutory partners: West Sussex County Council (WSCC) NHS Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board Sussex Police To fulfil its role, Safeguarding Adults Boards are expected to involve a much wider range of organisations and in...
On this page you will find resources which relate to specific areas of safeguarding practice. Please note that documents denoted with an asterisk (*) contain a link to an old version of the Sussex Safeguarding Adults Policy and Procedures website. Please access the Sussex Safeguarding Adults Polic...
