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.
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...
Here you can find the latest news from the West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board, as well as key partner initiatives and information about Safeguarding Adults Week. Newsletters Cost of living Safeguarding Adults Week Recently published Support schemes in West Sussex
When you’re working with adults with care and support needs in West Sussex, there are a number of schemes which you may need to be aware of, or which may be helpful for the adults you’re supporting. You can read about some of these, below. If you’d like us to include any other schemes that you’re ...
Contents Introduction The importance of a Think Family approach Think Family in practice Introduction We know that children and adults rarely live in isolation, and as such, it’s important that when we are working with children or adults we take an approach which takes into consideration the whol...
Version: 1 Date published: August 2024 Last review: November 2025 Review due: November 2028 Contents Role and function of the group Responsibilities of members Membership Quoracy Frequency of meetings Governance and administration Confidentiality statement Freedom of Information requests Appendix...
Version: 1 Published: November 2025 Review due: November 2028 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 diffe...
