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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.

Training Opportunities - January 2011

For these Sessions SCA has agreed to fund the places

1) Urgent Opportunity for upskilling in relation to Post Abuse Support - 2nd and 3rd February

Led by Professor Hilary Brown

When adult abuse occurs it can have a major impact on everyone involved and others who work in or use a service. This course will focus on a range of supports, approaches and skills that managers can use to address trauma, risk and system failures in order to maintain services and seek resolution of issues.

Duration

2 days

Audience

This course is for Managers and Safeguarding Leads or their equivalent across all agencies and organisations within Surrey.equisites

Applicants will need to have extensive training and/or experience of Safeguarding Adults within Surrey and have a working knowledge of the Surrey Multi-agency Safeguarding Adults Procedures.

Flyer and Application Form

2) Managing Safely - 8th February

Aim

To improve the knowledge, skills and expertise of managers in respect of the safe recruitment, supervision and management of staff who work with adults at risk. To develop greater understanding of multi-agency working, the legal framework and national and local developments in Safeguarding Adults.

Duration

1 day 

Audience

This course is for Managers who have a responsibility for recruiting, supervising and managing staff who work with adults at risk. It is especially useful for service managers within local authority, independent provider and voluntary sector organisations.

Flyer and Application Form

The latest newsletter from the Surrey Safeguarding Adults Board:

 Winter 2011/12

Autumn 2011

Summer 2011

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

Publicity Material

Surrey County Council Safeguarding web page

Surrey Safeguarding Adults Multi-Agency Procedures 2011

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.

Surrey County Council Safeguarding training Programme

Safeguarding Adults at Risk Information Hub - a resource for professionals

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:

1. 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.
2. A person must be given all practicable help before anyone treats them as not being able to make their own decisions.
3. 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.
4. Anything done or any decision made on behalf of a person who lacks capacity must be done in their best interests.
5. Anything done for or on behalf of a person who lacks capacity should be the least restrictive of their basic rights and freedoms.

The Code of Practice and Guidance Documents can be accessed from the Justice Department web site - click here.

Accessing the Court of Protection Guidance here

If you wish to audit your practice SCIE have a series of tools here.