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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence have published guideline providing integrated health and social care services for people experiencing homelessness. It aims to improve access to and engagement with health and social care, and ensure care is coordinated across different services.
The guideline is for:
- Local Authorities
- Commissioners and providers of services
- Healthcare practitioners in primary, secondary and tertiary care
- Social care practitioners
- People who experience homelessness, their families, advocates, and the public
This guideline includes recommendations on:
For more information and to view the guideline, please visit https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng214
The Government has launched a public consultation on proposed changes to the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) Code of Practice for England and Wales, which includes guidance on the new Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) system.
This is a joint consultation published by Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) and Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The consultation will run for 16 weeks from the 17 March until 7 July 2022.
Alongside the consultation, the DHSC have published six sets of draft regulations which will underpin LPS and a number of documents that are intended to support the sector with LPS implementation.
You can find all the consultation documents and respond to it within the next 16 weeks at the following link. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/changes-to-the-mca-code-of-practice-and-implementation-of-the-lps
The Multi-Agency Risk Management (MARM) process provides professionals from all agencies with a framework to facilitate effective multi-agency working with adults (aged 18+) with care and support needs at risk of harm who are deemed to have mental capacity for specific decisions that may result in serious harm/death through severe self-neglect or risk taking behaviours, and refuse or are unable to engage with services.
The Safeguarding Partnership Board have revised the guidance, which will be launched on 9th May 2022 along with a Sway (Virtual Briefing) providing a basic overview of what the MARM is and how to use it.
We will also be hosting a number of workshops facilitated by a range of agencies commencing the 19th May, please see the Safeguarding Training section for more details.
Following the conclusion of the workshops, a resource pack will be produced to include a standard slide set with trainer notes for agencies, FAQs, case studies as well as the updated guidance and Sway.
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Across the UK, there have been a number of incidents of children and babies being attacked by dogs.
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Partnership Board produced a resource pack following a review and includes practice guidance and guides from RSPCA, Dogs Trust and, Blue Cross on how to keep toddlers and children safe around dogs.
Staff should be aware of the potential risk presented by family dogs, in particular to young children and babies, and to remind families ‘never leave a baby or young child unsupervised with a dog, even for a moment, no matter how well you know that dog’.
Access the resource: Practice Guidance for Safeguarding Children from Dangerous Dogs
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Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command have created a new website for children aged 11-18 that has information on online safety and relationships. It has also updated its toolkit of activities that schools, youth work and other educational settings in the UK can use to educate young people about online safety.
Visit the webpage: The internet, relationships & you
Access the free resource (sign-in required): The internet, relationships & you: toolkit for 11-18s |
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The Dewis Choice Initiative, based at Aberystwyth University, has launched an evidence-based resource pack to support practitioners working with older LGBTQ+ victim-survivors who have experienced domestic abuse.
The resource pack, which consists of two short films, 'Do You See Me?' and 'Hidden Voices', and a practitioner toolkit, aims to increase the knowledge and understanding of practitioners working with older LGBTQ+ victim-survivors.
You can find the guidance on the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Partnership's website
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