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 page has been written to provide families, friends, and carers with information about adult safeguarding. You can refer to this page 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 ...
If you are looking for information for family, friends, or carers , please visit our dedicated webpage. Safeguarding adults is the process of enabling adults with care and support needs to protect themselves from abuse or neglect. This includes adults with care and support needs who are already ex...
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 Provider Learning Review, including the findings and key recommendations made by the reviewer. Our Provider Learning Review was commissioned following a ...
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...
The Safeguarding Young People 17.5+ Protocol is our first joint protocol, with the West Sussex Safeguarding Children's Partnership . The protocol is for Safeguarding Young People who are aged 17.5 and above and provides details of the practice required and process to be followed, by all in West Su...
Guidance for staff on the application of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Code of Practice. Version: 2 Date published: September 2025 Review due: September 2028 Contents Introduction Your responsibilities What is mental capacity? Statutory principles Helping adults to make decisions Assessing capacit...
An introduction to the Safeguarding Adults Board, and a tour through the fundamentals of adult safeguarding in West Sussex. An introduction to the Safeguarding Adults Board Summary guidance: The Care Act (PDF, 251KB) Summary guidance: The Mental Capacity Act Sussex Safeguarding Adults Policy an...
Prevent is the safeguarding part of the UK’s Counter Terrorism strategy (CONTEST ) in place to safeguard vulnerable people from being coerced, influenced, manipulated, groomed or controlled into committing or supporting harm against themselves or others in the name of an extremist ideology. Often ...
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...
On this page you will find procedures and protocols to support your 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 Policy and Procedures...
