South Gloucestershire
Safeguarding Adults Board

• Joint Safeguarding Adults Policy June 2019
• Resolution of Professional Differences Policy (Escalation) 2021
• Do you need to raise a safeguarding concern to the local authority

• Multi Agency Procedures 2019
• ADASS Guidance – Inter-authority safeguarding arrangements
• Guidance on managing allegations against people in a position of trust 2021
• Organisational Abuse Guidance 2021
• Safer Recruitment Guidance 2021
• Working with Risk Guidance 2022
• Professional Curiosity Guidance 2021

• Exploitation Guidance 2020
• Research in Practice Guide to Sexual Exploitation in Adults
• Language of Scams
• Cuckooing E-Learning

• County Lines – criminal exploitation of children and vulnerable adults
• County Lines – Resources
• County Lines – Private security sector
• County Lines – Licensed taxi and private hire company staff
• County Lines – Bus and coach company staff
• County Lines – Train operating company staff
• County Lines – Private landlords and letting agents

• Domestic Abuse Practice Guidance 2022
• Multi-agency Best Practice Guidance on identifying and responding to domestic abuse
• Multi-agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) – Practitioners Guide
• DASH FAQs
• DASH Risk Identification and Assessment and Management Model
• Risk Identification Checklist and guidance – Young People’s version

• South Gloucestershire multi-agency Guidance on Honour Based Violence, Female Genital Mutilation & Forced Marriage.
• GOV.UK Multi-agency statutory guidance on female genital mutilation
• GOV.UK FGM guidance
• GOV.UK The right to choose. Multi-agency statutory guidance for dealing with forced marriage.

• Exploitation
• Offenders
• Victims
• ASP newsletter May 2021
• LWG Local Authorities Modern Slavery Protocol
• LWG Local Authorities NRM Process Guide
• LWG Local Authorities NRM Statutory Duties to identify victims of modern slavery
• LWG Local Authorities’ Referral Pathway for Adult Victims of Modern Slavery
• Avon and Somerset Police – Online Exploitation Information Form

• Prevent Referrals and Channel Process

• Self Neglect Guidance 2022
• Fire safety – Clutter Image Rating Scale

Advocacy and Safeguarding

The Care Act requires local authorities to offer an advocate to anyone who has ‘substantial difficulty’ being involved. This might be in: assessments, care/support planning, reviews and safeguarding cases where the individual lacks a suitable person to facilitate their involvement and/or represent them. The Act makes clear that local authorities have a responsibility to consider a person’s need for an independent advocate from the first time they make contact and through all subsequent contacts. The statutory guidance to the Act indicates that each local authority must; “arrange, where appropriate, for an independent advocate to represent and support an adult who is the subject of a safeguarding enquiry or safeguarding adult review (SAR),” where the above conditions are met.

Information for people living in or being supported in South Glos needing Care Act Advocacy or mental health advocacy (IMCA) – South Gloucestershire | South West Advocacy Network (swanadvocacy.org.uk)

Information for people living in or being supported in Bristol needing mental health Advocacy(IMCA) – Bristol Mind via Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) | POhWER

Information for people living in or being supported in Bristol needing Care Act Advocacy – Your Say Referrals – Your Say Advocacy (yoursay-advocacy.com)

Homelessness Guidance 2022