Safeguarding
Surrey Care Association are committed to supporting the safety and well being of all people who use services, should you have a concern regarding the safety or well being of someone please report this concern.
The latest newsletter from the Surrey Safeguarding Adults Board:
To contact the Safeguarding Advisors please see details below:
Claudine Cox: (part-time)
Covers East Surrey area
claudine.cox@surreycc.gov.uk
Louise Deacon:
Covers North West Surrey area
louise.deacon@surreycc.gov.uk
01932 794419
Jean Hills:
Covers Mid Surrey area
jean.hills@surreycc.gov.uk
01372 833528
Debbie Parker: (part-time in Service delivery)
debbie.parker@surreycc.gov.uk
01372 833524
Jim Poyser:
Covers South West Surrey area
jim.poyser@surreycc.gov.uk
01372 833527
Adults at Risk Boards and Groups Mapping
Surrey County Council Safeguarding web page
Where you can access Surrey Safeguarding Adults Multi-Agency Procedures
National Safeguarding Competence Framework
The aim of this National Competence Framework is to establish more efficient and consistent Safeguarding practice and workforce development across the country. It has been designed to provide a baseline for standards of competence that individuals can expect to receive from professionals and organisations tasked with Safeguarding Adults, and also to provide employees and employers with a benchmark for the minimum standard of competence required of those who work to Safeguard Adults.
Training Opportunities
Surrey County Council Safeguarding training Programme
Surrey Care Association Training
Safeguarding Adults at Risk Information Hub - a resource for professionals to access contact Jenni at the SCA office.
SCIE's Safeguarding Pages - Resources, Guides and Best Practice
The Mental Capacity Act:
provides a framework to empower and protect people who may lack capacity to make some decisions for themselves.
The Mental Capacity Act make clear who can take decisions in which situations, and how they should go about this. Anyone who works with or cares for an adult who lacks capacity must comply with the MCA when making decisions or acting for that person.
This applies whether decisions are life changing events or more every day matters and is relevant to adults of any age, regardless of when they lost capacity.
The underlying philosophy of the MCA is to ensure that those who lack capacity are empowered to make as many decisions for themselves as possible and that any decision made, or action taken, on their behalf is made in their best interests.
The five key principles in the Act are:
- Every adult has the right to make his or her own decisions and must be assumed to have capacity to make them unless it is proved otherwise.
- A person must be given all practicable help before anyone treats them as not being able to make their own decisions.
- Just because an individual makes what might be seen as an unwise decision, they should not be treated as lacking capacity to make that decision.
- Anything done or any decision made on behalf of a person who lacks capacity must be done in their best interests.
- Anything done for or on behalf of a person who lacks capacity should be the least restrictive of their basic rights and freedoms.
Accessing the Court of Protection Guidance here
If you wish to audit your practice SCIE have a series of tools here.
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