Leeds Safeguarding Adults Partnership works together to promote awareness and good practice:
- in safeguarding 'adults at risk' from abuse or neglect
- in the Mental Capacity Act 1983 and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
Leeds Safeguarding Adult Partnership Multi Agency Policy and Procedures
Annexes to the multi agency policy and procedures
Advocacy, IMCA and Safeguarding Adults Policy- Contesting Safeguarding Decisions Procedure
- Investigating Institutional Abuse Supplementary Guidance
- Practice Guidance: Coordinating Safeguarding Investigations (with other investigations)
- Practice Guidance: Legal Powers to Intervene
- Practice Guidance: Reporting an unauthorised deprivation of liberty and considerations in making a safeguarding adult referral
- Leeds Safeguarding Adults Board Information Sharing Agreement
- Serious Case Review Procedure
Additional guidance for organisations:
Guidance on developing safeguarding adult policies and procedures- Safeguarding Policy and Procedures overview leaflet - An information leaflet for staff/volunteers who work with vulnerable adults in Leeds.
National / Regional Guidance Publications:
- Forced Marriage
- Handling cases of forced marriage: multi-agency practice guidelines
- Forced Marriage and Learning disabilities
- Additional resources in relation to Forced Marriage can be obtained from the Foreign and Commonwealth Website
- Protocol for inter-authority investigation of vulnerable adult abuse (ADSS, 2004) - This national guidance establishes each local authority's responsibilities in responding to allegations of abuse or neglect, when the abuse of a person known to one local authority occurs in the area of another.
- No Secrets (Department of Health, 2000)
- Safeguarding Adults: A National Framework of standards for good practice and outcomes in adult protection work (ADASS, 2005)
- Safeguarding adults at risk of harm: A legal guide for practitioners (SCIE 2011)