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.
Version: 2 Date published: October 2025 Review due: October 2028 Contents Introduction Referral checklist Submitting your referral Key documents What happens next Introduction The Multi-Agency Risk Management subgroup (MARM) is a subgroup of the West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board, which meets...
Version: 1 Published: June 2026 Review due: June 2029 Our sector learning briefing series Our sector learning briefing series has been produced to share learning from our reviews, including learning reviews and Safeguarding Adults Reviews. Each sector learning briefing is aimed at a different are...
We would like to thank Newcastle Safeguarding Adults Board for sharing their guidance, ‘Identifying, preventing and responding to financial abuse’ , on which this information is based. Contents Introduction What is financial abuse? Signs you might notice What are the risk factors for financial ab...
Contents Introduction What is coercive control? What does coercive control look like? What are the risk factors for coercive control? How can we mitigate against these risks? What should I do if I am concerned about coercive control? Introduction In late 2024, we published a Safeguarding Adults R...
The Care Act 2014 sets out the criteria for a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR). Each Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) must arrange a SAR when it suspects or knows that an adult has: died because of abuse or neglect; or experienced serious abuse or neglect which has resulted in permanent harm, reduce...
The information in this section is for professionals who work with adults with care and support needs. On this page you will find the core safeguarding policies and procedures, which should inform and underpin all of your work. Please note that documents denoted with an asterisk (*) contain a link...
Our Quality and Performance subgroup have recently carried out an assurance survey for our Safeguarding Adults Review in respect of DJT (PDF, 430KB) . Safeguarding Adults Review assurance surveys are a method to seek assurance of learning from Reviews, and are undertaken six months after the multi...
A Board priority for 2025/26 was to understand how families are involved in safeguarding processes and enquiries, and what more we can do to promote a ‘Think Family’ approach . To support this, the Board’s Quality and Performance subgroup undertook a case file audit, focusing on family involvement...
In February, we held our annual Board priorities meeting with our members from across the partnership, to decide on our topics of focus for the upcoming financial year (2026/27). The meeting was well turned out, with great attendance from an array of agencies, resulting in a range of ideas, perspe...
Did you know that as of Thursday 4 December 2025 the Action Fraud service has been replaced by a new service, called Report Fraud? Report Fraud is the new service for reporting fraud across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Run by the City of London Police, Report Fraud provides: a home for th...
