Useful Reports & Resources

Child abuse & neglect

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Child abuse and neglect Quality standard [QS179] (February 2019)

Charities

• SCIE report: Safeguarding for charities roundtable report (April 2019).
• SCIE Safeguarding for charities roundtable presentation slides (April 2019).

Church of England

• Final overview report of the independent diocesan safeguarding audits and additional work on improving responses to survivors of abuse (04 April 2019)

Councillors 

• Local Government Association Councillors briefing: Safeguarding adults (2015)

County Lines

• Criminal Exploitation of children and vulnerable adults: County Lines guidance (11 July 2017)

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)

• House of Common Library Briefing Paper (October 2017)

Domestic abuse

• Research in Practice | Coercive control: Impacts on children and young people in the family environment: Literature Review (2018)
• Domestic abuse and Older People (Safer Lives October 2016)
• Adult safeguarding and domestic abuse A guide to support practitioners and managers(2015) 

• Unequal, trapped & controlled - Women’s experience of financial abuse and potential implications for Universal Credit (Women's aid March 2015)

Faith communities

• Safeguarding in faith communities | SCIE report (October 2018)

Financial Abuse / Scams

• Call Blocking in the UK: Report from the National Trading Standards Scams Team (June 2018)
• Actions against bank account scams: House of Commons Library Briefing Paper (June 2018)
• Financial Abuse and Scams - ADASS (June 2017)
• Stand Against Scams - Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI)
• House of Commons Library Briefing Paper: Scamming and its effect on vulnerable adults (September 2016)
• Financial Abuse Evidence Review - Age UK (November 2015)
• Assessment: Financial Crimes Against Vulnerable Adults - SCIE Report 49 (November 2011)

General Practitioners

• Safeguarding vulnerable adults - a tool kit for general practitioners
• Royal College of General Practitioners - Introduction to Adult Safeguarding Toolkit (June 2017)

Gypsy travellers 

• Gypsy travellers SCIE video
• ‘Friends, Families, and Travellers’

Hate Crime

• House of Commons Home Affairs Committee - Hate crime: abuse, hate and extremism online (May 2017)
• Action Against Hate – The UK Government’s plan for tackling hate crime Briefing Note (July 2016)

• Action Against Hate - The UK Government’s plan for tackling hate crime (July 2016)

Human Trafficking 

• Salvation Army Human Trafficking Presentation 

Incidence 

• Safeguarding Adults, Annual Report, England 2015-16, Experimental Statistics: Report

• Safeguarding Adults Annual Report, England 2014-15 Experimental Statistics

Information Sharing

• Norfolk Information Sharing Protocol Version 7.5.2
• Information Sharing Booklet
• Adult Safeguarding: sharing information - SCIE (January 2019)
• Home Office - Multi-Agency Working and Information Sharing Project Final report July 2014

Learning disabilities

• Supporting and Safeguarding Adults with Learning Disabilities - House of Commons Briefing (16 October 2017)

Making Safeguarding Personal

• Making Safeguarding Personal - Presentation by Dr Adi Cooper (October 2017)
• Making Safeguarding Personal 2013-14 Full Report

• Making Safeguarding Personal 2013-14 Summary of Findings

Mental Capacity

• National Mental Capacity Act Competency Framework (March 2017)
• Mental Capacity Report from 39 Essex Chambers - February 2017

NHS England

•  Safeguarding Accountability and Assurance Framework (19 August 2019)

Pressure Ulcers & Safeguarding

• Department of Health & Social Care: Safeguarding Adults Protocol  Pressure Ulcers and the interface with a Safeguarding Enquiry

Social Care Institute for Excellence

• SCIE Highlights No 2 - Safeguarding adults (September 2017)

Safeguarding Adults Collection 2016-17

• Safeguarding Adults Collection 2016-17: Norfolk benchmarking document