Safeguarding Adults Making Safeguarding Personal Challenges and Opportunities

Safeguarding Adults Making Safeguarding Personal Challenges and Opportunities A Brief for the SAB 25 September 2014 Helen Tapfumaneyi

Safeguarding Adults Scope of the Presentation Service User/ advocate experience An Overview of Personalised Safeguarding Case Study Questions/discussion/reflections

Safeguarding Adults Objectives To enlighten the SAB members on : § The LGA/ADASS MSP Programme § What Enfield has to do to embark on it § What success would look like § Clarify any grey areas

Safeguarding Adults Outcomes: At the end of the presentation the SAB members will be aware of : § The MSP National Context § What needs to change in Enfield § How change may be achieved § Proposed targets for change

Safeguarding Adults Definitions: § Personalisation: is about promoting peoples human rights, such as rights to self – determination, life, freedom from inhuman and degrading treatment, etc. § Safeguarding adults: is about preventing their violation by others

Safeguarding Adults National Context The MSP Programme is enshrined in the : § Personalisation agenda § Putting People First concordant § Our Health, Our Care, Our Say § ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’

Safeguarding Adults National Context Cont. Need to Comply with CQC Requirements Services are expected to be: § Responsive § Safe § Effective § Caring and § Well-Led

Safeguarding Adults The Care Act § The Care Act has now placed Safeguarding Adults on a statutory footing, expecting Safeguarding adults practice to be guided by the following 6 principles:

Safeguarding Adults Empowerment § Proportionality § Protection § Prevention § Partnership § Accountability

Safeguarding Adults Local Context § Safeguarding practice in Enfield is now incorporating the 6 Care Act principles in their audit process. ng during Q 4 was 82% as reflected belowratinbelow : J

Safeguarding Adults THE MSP Programme The LGA and ADASS are promoting personalised safeguarding § Purpose: To support councils and their partners to develop outcomes-focused, personcentred safeguarding practice.

Safeguarding Adults The approach aims to facilitate a shift in emphasis in safeguarding from undertaking a process to a commitment to improving outcomes alongside people experiencing abuse or neglect.

Safeguarding Adults MSP Levels 1. Bronze: sector outcomes measure for safeguarding. This can include: § to discuss the outcomes people want at the start of safeguarding activity § follow-up discussions with people at the end of safeguarding activity to see to what extent their desired outcomes have been met § •

Safeguarding Adults 2. Silver: Prevention: If well on the way to achieving the two points above, councils may wish to develop enabling responses that reduce risk of or recurrence of abuse and neglect as well as recording and aggregating information about outcomes. §

Safeguarding Adults 3. Gold: § Involves work on both 1. and 2 above, and in addition, find a partner in a university or other research organisation, who will undertake a more formal evaluation of the work.

Safeguarding Adults What do we need to change to ensure that our practice meets the MSP Criteria? 1. Enrolment with the Programme : Enfield is now enrolled for the programme at Gold level.

Safeguarding Adults 2. Put together a local MSP practice implementation Group. § Central Safeguarding Adults Team § Learning and development § Care Management § Partner Agencies § IT

Safeguarding Adults 3. Programme Timelines: § 22 Sep 2014: Workshop § Nov 2014: Regional conference: Care Act. § Oct – Feb: Specialist workshops for Silver § Feb 2015: Impact Report § April 2015: Share Learning

Safeguarding Adults How is success going to be measured 1. Goal: Achieve the LGA/ADASS Gold Standard 2. Outcomes to be achieved : Outcomes Focused and Person-Centred Safeguarding Adults

Safeguarding Adults Service User Experience of the Safeguarding Adults Process