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If there's one thing we learned from 2025, it's that we've got a lot to say. So this year, we're doing things a little differently. You might have noticed that throughout 2025 we circulated a number of special edition newsletters, exploring key safeguarding topics and featuring subject experts fro...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
The Care Act 2014 states that Safeguarding Adult Boards have a statutory responsibility to arrange a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) when an adult dies as a result of abuse or neglect (whether known or suspected), where there is concern that partner agencies could have worked more effectively toge...
Disclaimer Please note that in November 2025 the convictions for holding a person in slavery and servitude were deemed unsafe and quashed. The convictions for ill-treatment and actual bodily harm remain, and a retrial in respect of the quashed offences was refused (Webb & Somerset-How v R: Persona...
The Strategic Plan is reviewed and reported on every year via the publication of an Annual Report. This is the key mechanism by which the West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board is held to account for the work it carries out. The Annual Report is shared with the Chief Executive and Leader of the Loc...
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 44 | June 2026 In this issue: WATCH NOW: Our Mental Capacity Act staff briefing Deadlines for MARM referrals REMINDER: Sussex E...
