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.
This toolkit provides staff with necessary guidance and information around working with adults with complex needs, including signposting to useful resources and policies. There are also various accompanying templates, which can be used and adapted by all agencies. Please note, the toolkit should be...
Take a more in-depth look at applying theory to practice and explore some key resources designed to support your practice. Summary guidance: safeguarding young people (PDF, 228KB) Summary guidance: Safeguarding Adults Review referrals (PDF, 203KB) Explore quality and safeguarding (PDF, 185KB) E...
Congratulations, you've now completed the West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board learning pathway. We would love to hear your feedback about our learning resources and the learning pathway. Complete our short survey to let us know your feedback. To progress your learning, we would recommend that yo...
Not sure where to start with our learning resources? Want to expand your adult safeguarding knowledge, but just have the feeling that you 'don't know what you don't know'? We've designed a learning pathway to take you on a journey through our key adult safeguarding learning resources. This pathway ...
On this page you will find our Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs) and Learning Reviews which were published more than 12 months ago. Meta-analysis of Safeguarding Adults Reviews featuring self-neglect (June 2024) Meta-analysis of SARs featuring self-neglect executive summary (PDF, 128KB) Meta-anal...
We have worked with our colleagues in East Sussex and Brighton & Hove to create a suite of resources for use by professionals, community groups and organisations, and members of the public. You can download and print each of these resources below. Please do support us to raise awareness of adult s...
Thank you for joining us for this short podcast, produced on behalf of the West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board. Today, we’ll be looking at our Safeguarding Adults Review in respect of Colin, including the findings and key recommendations made by the reviewer. Colin was a 77-year-old man who live...
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...
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...
On this page you will find a summary of the learning resources, reports, and other materials published by the West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board in the last three months. Please refer to this page for anything that you may have missed. August 2025 Safe and Habitable Homes Toolkit The Safe and...
