The following guidance is available to Health and Social Care professionals to download.
Complex Case Pathway
This pathway has been developed in collaboration with Bromley and Southwark SAB. It is hoped that this tool will support professionals working with individuals who are self-neglecting, or who are refusing or disengaging from services. It can also help responses where there are concerns that a person may be ‘falling through the gaps’. You can download this tool now to help support you in practice
Complex Case Pathway
Type: PDF
Size: 651.6 KB
LSAB Multi-Agency Guidance for responding to self-neglect (trial version)
Any agency can respond to someone who is self-neglecting and this guidance outlines the different ways in which we can support people. This guidance also outlines how any professional can respond to someone who may be self-neglecting and in what circumstances, a formal multi-agency response would be required.
We want this to be a tool that any professional feels able to use to support them in responding to cases of self-neglect. We welcome feedback on what is useful or missing: send us your thoughts by emailing LSABAdmin@lambeth.gov.uk
LSAB Self-neglect multi-agency guidance Update Nov 2021
Type: PDF
Size: 1.82 MB
LSAB Framework for Managing Allegations Against Persons in Positions of Trust
The purpose of this framework is to provide recommended content and a suggested structure for responding to allegations against people in a position of Trust. Each organisation will however be different and will need to use this document to create a policy and procedure that reflects the needs of their organisation and their service users.
Lambeth SAB PiPOT Framework
Type: PDF
Size: 531.49 KB
LSAB Framework for Staff Supervision and Support in Adult Safeguarding
Adult safeguarding work can be complex and demanding, and often requires staff to make urgent and sometimes difficult decisions while under pressure. Effective supervision is essential to support those practitioners responding to safeguarding concerns. To support organisations to develop their own approach to supervision in the context of adult safeguarding, LSAB’s Performance and Quality subgroup have developed some specific guidance.
LSAB Adult Safeguarding Staff Supervision framework
Type: PDF
Size: 756.69 KB
Adult Safeguarding Decision Making Tool
This tool provides information on what to consider when making an adult safeguarding referral, how the law is applied by the local authority (Section 42(1) and (2)) and the types of possible abuse against levels of risk which help to clarify what response referrers can expect.
Adult Safeguarding Decision Making Tool
Type: PDF
Size: 467.3 KB
Best practice for monitoring and reviewing adult safeguarding referrals
Best practice for monitoring and reviewing adult safeguarding referrals
Type: DOCX
Size: 52.51 KB
Guidance on producing an Adult Safeguarding Policy and Procedure
The aim of this guidance is to support organisations and services working with Lambeth citizens which need to produce an adult safeguarding policy and procedure. It provides recommended content and a suggested structure. Each organisation will however be different and will need to use this guidance to create a policy and procedure that reflects the needs of their organisation and their service users.
Guidance on producing an Adult Safeguarding Policy and Procedure
Type: PDF
Size: 750.55 KB
Lambeth Domestic Abuse Guidance
This guidance is to help adult social care delivery staff to understand how we will undertake safeguarding adult’s work where it relates to domestic abuse.
Domestic abuse and violence affects both children and adults sometimes in a devastating way. Anyone can be a victim of domestic violence. It is not limited to a particular gender, ethnicity, age, class or sexual orientation. Perpetrators can be of either gender and domestic violence can occur in same sex relationships, between family members as well as current or previous partners.
Lambeth Domestic Abuse Guidance
Type: PDF
Size: 481.1 KB
Safeguarding Adults and Pressure Ulcers: Decision Making Guidance
This is guidance to support decisions about;
- whether the response to concerns about pressure ulcer care need to be referred for consideration for a safeguarding enquiry,
- how safeguarding enquiries regarding pressure ulcer care can best be undertaken
- how such enquiries can be aligned with clinical governance and other processes, and
- how partner agencies can best work together to ensure the wellbeing of people at risk of pressure wounds is promoted.
LSAB Pressure Ulcer Guidance
Type: PDF
Size: 750.49 KB
Understanding existing definitions of 'vulnerable' in relation to adult safeguarding
This short document has been compiled to help improve understanding of how different organisations define a 'vulnerable' adult, and to highlight the different terminology introduced by the Care Act in 2014 which now refers to an 'adult at risk'.
Understanding existing definitions of ‘vulnerable' or 'vulnerability’ related to Adult Safeguarding
Type: PDF
Size: 610.49 KB
Multi-agency FGM Guidance - Lambeth
Use the National and Lambeth Multi-agency Guidance for Safeguarding against FGM to aid decision-making.
Lambeth multi-agency FGM Guidance
Type: PDF
Size: 2.64 MB
Making Safeguarding Personal in Lambeth
The LSAB Community Reference Group has developed this resource using feedback from residents and service users, and have outlined some of the key messages for practice when applying the principles of Making Safeguarding Personal.
Making Safeguarding Personal in Lambeth Jan 2021
Type: PDF
Size: 774.92 KB