Procedures update
Following a review with a multi-agency working group, review by legal in both city and county, and sign-off by the City Business Management Group and County Board, please see the updated Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Multi-agency Adult Safeguarding Procedure for Raising a Concern and Referring.
This document replaces the current 2018 version and has been uploaded to both city and county SAB websites. Please ensure that you update your intranets, document libraries and any links embedded within documents accordingly.
Nottinghamshire Safeguarding Adults Board (NSAB) has approved the Safeguarding Adults’ Competency Framework and Learning Pathway document. It has been updated to reflect changing practice and legislation, including the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Care Act 2014 and is based on the third second edition of the Intercollegiate document, Adult Safeguarding: Roles and Competencies for Health Care Staff updated and published by Royal College of Nursing in 2024.
- This competency framework can support adult social care and health staff to build and develop their knowledge, attitudes and values that are required for safe and effective safeguarding practice.
- It should be used to enable partner agencies to review and assure NSAB that different staff groups are competent to an appropriate level and accessing appropriate learning and development opportunities to support this.
- It is also designed as a guidance tool for staff to help them identify sources of learning and development opportunities, allowing them to achieve the relevant competency. Partner organisations will be able to utilise this document when completing the Safeguarding Adults Self-Assessment and Assurance Framework (SAAF) and others may find it useful as part of their audit process for demonstrating staff competencies.
Understanding safeguarding concerns and how to refer
This course is aimed at those responsible for making Adult Safeguarding Referrals within your organisation based in Nottinghamshire, as detailed in the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Safeguarding Adults procedure for raising a concern and referring [PDF].
If your organisation operates within Nottinghamshire, and your role within that organisation requires you to act as Nominated Safeguarding Adults Referrer, you are invited to attend one of the sessions set up to provide learning on understanding safeguarding concerns.
It is our priority safeguard those adults most at risk of abuse and neglect in Nottinghamshire. To do that, the MASH needs to be able to focus on safeguarding adults referrals that meet the criteria for a safeguarding concern. This will also improve timely and appropriate responses for the adults themselves.
This course will include:
- Understanding what constitutes a safeguarding adults concern
- Evidence-based decision-making in relation to safeguarding adults concerns
- What makes an effective safeguarding adults referral
- How to use the Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Multi-Agency Procedures and Pathways.
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The 2023-2028 Joint Carer’s Strategy, which covers both Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County, was developed in collaboration between both local authorities, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System (ICS) and the NHS.
The strategy sets out how key agencies will work together to improve the health and wellbeing of carers.
Social isolation is both a risk and an impact factor for people caring for others. Carers may be socially isolated because of their caring role and the impact it has on them. They may experience abuse from the cared for person and this increases their social isolation. Further, they may be unwilling or unable to talk about it.
A carer is anyone who cares, unpaid, for a friend or family member, who due to illness; disability; substance misuse or a mental health need, cannot cope without their support. A young carer is someone under 18 who does this. Local authorities have clear responsibilities towards carers.
Caring can be very rewarding. However, taking on the responsibilities of caring can have a major impact on an individual’s life, often leading to isolation and exhaustion. For adult carers it can impact on their ability to work and may lead to ill health and for young carers it can hold back their educational progress and limit their social development.
As carers play a valuable role in safeguarding, it is vital that they are supported in their role, either through a referral to the local authority for a carers assessment, or via a referral to the respective organisations in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire which provide advice and support for carers.
Information regarding local and national support for carers is available at the following links:
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The Slavery Exploitation Team have arranged a series of webinars running in September to raise further awareness in the county around the SERAC (Slavery Exploitation Risk Assessment Conference).
The webinars will run for around an hour and a half and will cover signs and indicators of exploitation and slavery, the role of the team and the SERAC, how to refer into the team and a brief overview.
Please encourage your teams to attend and feel free to share around your organisation.
Dates and times for the meeting are:
DAHA accreditation is the UK benchmark for how housing providers should respond to domestic abuse in the UK. We are the only project in the UK offering a domestic abuse accreditation for the housing sector. DAHA accreditation is recognised in the government's Ending Violence against Women and Girls Strategy: 2016 to 2020. By becoming DAHA accredited, housing providers and services are taking a stand to ensure they deliver safe and effective responses to domestic abuse.
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Helping people control their finances while recognising the risks of financial abuse.
This free course has a number of free spaces available and includes information, interactive tasks, videos, and quizzes to help the learner understand more about financial capability, along with the risks of financial abuse and exploitation. It also provides some guidance on how we can safeguard ourselves against these risks.
The course covers:
- Financial capability and numeracy skills
- Financial, economic and material abuse
- Grooming and exploitation
- Tips to protect yourself
- Further resources and places for support.
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PDU stress and trauma resource pack
This resource pack has been developed in partnership with psychologists from Framework, Al-Hurrayah, Nottingham Recovery Network and the University of Nottingham, and with consultation with the Nottingham Changing Futures Expert Citizen Group involving individuals with lived experience of severe and multiple disadvantage (SMD). It is designed to assist workers to support individuals who access services to regulate difficult emotions and manage trauma and stress, as well as their own mental health and wellbeing.
Please share this new resource pack with your workers and encourage people to join the PDU. It’s free and available to all with resources focussed on people experiencing multiple disadvantage. For those wanting to develop their strength-based practice and trauma informed approach it is a must.
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NSAB has a suite of seven minute briefings, designed to give you a brief overview of various topics in a bitesize format.
Topics now covered include:
Exploitation, what is a SAR, mate crime, cuckooing and chronologies, as well as previously published briefings on MSP, effective safeguarding adults referrals, professional curiosity, self-neglect, autism and mental health.
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