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.
Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) is an outcomes focused approach and can be considered part of person-centred support. Essentially this means ensuring that the person whom the safeguarding concern refers to, is engaged with by professionals who should ensure that the person concerned has a choic...
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...
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...
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. Special edition | Multi-agency working Following the results of our multi-agency working survey, we understood that there is a need t...
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. July 2025 Multi-agency meeting guide When working with ad...
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...
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...
