Safeguarding Adults

I am an Adult with care and support needs

The following pages contain advice and guidance to support you if you are 18 or older, and need help to keep yourself safe. Safeguarding means protecting an adult’s right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect.

It is about people and organisations working together to prevent and stop both the risks and experience of abuse or neglect. Warwickshire Safeguarding now aims to work with local people and our partners so that adults with care and support needs are safe and able to protect themselves from abuse and neglect.

Defining what care and support means

Care and support is the term used to describe the help some adults need in order that they can live in the best way they can, despite any illness or disability they might have.

Although by no means an exhaustive list, it can include help with things like:

Getting out of bed,
Washing and dressing,
Getting to work,
Cooking or eating meals,
Seeing friends or being given a list to a social event,
Emotional support at a time of difficulty or stress,
Caring for families,
Being part of the community.

The definition of care and support also includes the help given by family and friends, as well as any help provided by Warwickshire County Council or other support organisations.

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I am a Family Friend / Relative / Carer

Family members, relatives, friends and neighbours all have an important part to play in keeping adults with care and support needs safe from abuse and neglect.

If you are worried or concerned about someone, please don't keep it to yourself - report your concerns.

It doesn't matter if you're not sure whether an action / series of actions / a situation is abuse or neglect all the local agencies and national helplines would much rather you phoned / got in touch so that they can help you know what if anything needs to be done to keep someone safe from harm.

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I work with Adults

Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility!

However, it is also true to say that safeguarding is a particular responsibility for anyone who works with people, or who works in an organisation that provides services for people.

Everyone has a right to live in a world free from abuse and neglect. We also all have the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect.

Safeguarding adults is about preventing and responding to the abuse or neglect of adults with care and support needs in Warwickshire.

Warwickshire Safeguarding aims to work with local people and our partners so that adults with care and support needs are safe and able to protect themselves from abuse and neglect.

A person might need care and support to help them:

get out of bed, get dressed or washed
eat or cook meals
to see family or friends
manage health problems, including mental health difficulties
know when they're not safe and / or what to do when they don't feel safe

The following pages have been developed to provide an overview of local arrangements, policies and procedures which may help you to support individual’s experiencing or, at risk of experiencing abuse and or neglect. We hope you find the information on this site useful – we would really appreciate your feedback, if you have a minute please complete the following survey.

Safeguarding Partnership

The overarching purpose of Warwickshire Safeguarding is to help and safeguard adults with care and support needs. It does this by:

assuring itself that local safeguarding arrangements are in place as defined by the Care Act 2014 and statutory guidance
assuring itself that safeguarding practice is person-centred and outcome-focused
working collaboratively to prevent abuse and neglect where possible
ensuring agencies and individuals give timely and proportionate responses when abuse or neglect have occurred
assuring itself that safeguarding practice is continuously improving and enhancing the quality of life of adults in its area
leading adult safeguarding arrangements across its locality and overseeing and coordinating the effectiveness of the safeguarding work of its member and partner agencies.

Warwickshire Safeguarding has a core duty to:

develop and publish a strategic plan setting out how it will meet the it’s objectives and how its member and partner agencies will contribute
publish an annual report detailing how effective its work has been
commission safeguarding reviews for any cases which meet the criteria for these.

More information about the work of Warwickshire Safeguarding can be found by visiting the following pages.