{"id":1001,"date":"2015-05-12T10:57:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T09:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2024-02-27T11:49:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T11:49:41","slug":"care-act-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/adults\/i-work-with-adults\/care-act-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Care Act 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Latest updates<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/care-act-statutory-guidance\/care-and-support-statutory-guidance\">Care and Support Statutory guidance &#8211; Revised October 23<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Care Act 2014 sets out a clear legal framework for how local authorities and other parts of the system should protect adults at risk of abuse or neglect.<\/p>\n<h3>Local authorities have new safeguarding duties. They must:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>lead a multi-agency local adult safeguarding system<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>that seeks to prevent abuse and neglect and stop it quickly when it happens<\/li>\n<li><strong>make enquiries, or request others to make them,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>when they think an adult with care and support needs may be at risk of abuse or neglect and they need to find out what action may be needed<\/li>\n<li><strong>establish Safeguarding Adults Boards<\/strong>, including the local authority, NHS and police, which will develop, share and implement a joint safeguarding strategy<\/li>\n<li><strong>carry out Safeguarding Adults Reviews<\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>when someone with care and support needs dies as a result of neglect or abuse and there is a concern that the local authority or its partners could have done more to protect them<\/li>\n<li><strong>arrange for an independent advocate<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>to represent and support a person who is the subject of a safeguarding enquiry or review, if required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any relevant person or organisation must provide information to Safeguarding Adults Boards as requested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest updates Care and Support Statutory guidance &#8211; Revised October 23 The Care Act 2014 sets out a clear legal framework for how local authorities and other parts of the system should protect adults at risk of abuse or neglect. Local authorities have new safeguarding duties. They must: lead a multi-agency local adult safeguarding system\u00a0that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[71,81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36635,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/36635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}