We all have our individual roles in keeping adults at risk safe from abuse and neglect. As professionals and volunteers, it is essential we are familiar with both Safeguarding Adults processes and principles in general and with our own organisation’s individual policies and procedures.
Enfield Safeguarding Adults Board have endorsed and agreed the London Multi-Agency Adult Safeguarding Policy and Procedures (last updated April 2019).
The Local Government Association have also developed two very helpful guides to support Safeguarding Adults work:
- Understanding What Constitutes a Safeguarding Concern, December 2019
- Making Decisions on the Duty to Carry Out Safeguarding Adults Enquiries, August 2019
In Enfield we have a document to support you to make good quality Safeguarding Adults Referrals. This is to make sure the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub have all the right information to make prompt and proportionate decisions.
- Making good Safeguarding Adults Referrals to Enfield
- Making good Safeguarding Adults Referrals to Enfield 1 page guide
Enfield Local Authority retain responsibility as the lead organisation who co-ordinate Safeguarding Adults Enquiries under Section 42 of the Care Act (2014). To support with this, we have developed local practice guidance for our staff which can be found below. This guidance is not exhaustive and it is recommended you seek advice if you are unsure of how to approach an individual situation. This guidance is reviewed every two years.
- Participation and Empowerment in Safeguarding Adults
- Advocacy in Safeguarding Adults
- Complaints relating to Safeguarding Adults Practice Guidance
- Death of an adult at risk and safeguarding - Practice guidance
- Domestic Abuse against adults at risk Local Practice Guidance
- Forced Marriage and Safeguarding Adults
- Managing Delegated Safeguarding Adults Enquiries
- Delegated Section 42 Enquiry template
- London Borough of Enfield Safeguarding Adults Enquiry Recommendations
- Missing persons policy and procedure
- Repeat allegations in Safeguarding Adults
- Safeguarding Adults Allegations against staff and volunteers
- Self Neglect and Safeguarding Adults
- Working in Safeguarding Adults Where a Crime May Have Been Committed
- Working with Risk in Safeguarding Adults (Feb 2024)
- Enfield Safeguarding Enquiry Provider Feedback Guidance (August 2024)
Risk Assessments Tools and Guidance
- Multi Agency Risk Assessment framework
- Risk Assessment guidance for practitioners
- PSW Risk Assessment template form
Understanding Mental Capacity is a key part of working with adults at risk and of our Safeguarding Adults work specifically. Below are some tools which may be helpful.
- Mental Capacity Assessment for day to day decisions
- Mental Capacity Assessment for financial decisions
- Mental Capacity Assessment for sexual relationships LD clients
- Mental Capacity Assessment for sexual relationships dementia clients
Where there are concerns about a person working in a position of trust which isn’t a Safeguarding Adults allegation but nevertheless may mean there is risk in their place of employment, the Enfield PIPOT (Person In a Position Of Trust) policy may apply. Each Safeguarding Adults Board partner should have its own PIPOT policy.
In light of national guidance issued in January 2024 by the Department of Health and Social Care (which you can find at ‘Safeguarding Adults Protocol: Pressure Ulcers and Raising a Safeguarding Adults Concern’ ), the Enfield Safeguarding Adults Board have developed guidance for care providers – Provider Pressure Care and Safeguarding.
You can contact the Business Unit for the Enfield Safeguarding Adults Board – email SafeguardingEnfield@enfield.gov.uk or the Strategic Safeguarding Adults Team for the London Borough of Enfield, safeguardingadults@enfield.gov.uk. However, if raising a Safeguarding Adults Concern, please refer via the online referral form below or email TheMASHTeam@enfield.gov.uk as this will get a quicker and more appropriate response.
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