Purpose – This short briefing aims to discuss Social Care Institute for Excellence's (SCIE's) work in safeguarding adults. Design/methodology/approach – SCIE has produced a research briefing on self‐directed support and personal budgets, and work on restraint, personalisation and risk as...

Purpose – This report aims to summarise the principal conclusions from the pilot reviews and key learning points to assist the improvement of safeguarding policy and practice. Design/methodology/approach – A pilot programme of peer reviews of adult safeguarding arrangements was carried out...

Purpose – The paper aims to appraise professional practice in safeguarding vulnerable adults. It will examine the mechanisms in place and discuss how future policy will affect multi‐agency working in this field. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines recent consultations, policy...

Purpose – This paper aims to present a digest of the main discussion points and key findings from a recent Social Care Institute for Excellence report on risk enablement and safeguarding in the context of self‐directed support and personal budgets. Design/methodology/approach – The paper...

Purpose – This paper aims to respond to the findings of the initial phase of the Safeguarding Adults Programme (November 2009‐March 2010), which found an unexpected inverse relationship between referral rate for safeguarding adults and population size of local authority in the data captured...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a framework from which practitioners can develop a partnership approach to multi‐agency decision‐making. Design/methodology/approach – The authors have drawn on the direct experiences of social work practitioners currently involved in safeguarding...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the investigation process employed by the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG). This process is used whenever an allegation of abuse is received against either an attorney acting under a registered lasting or enduring power of attorney or against a deputy...

Purpose – This paper seeks to describe the experiences of people visiting elderly relatives in hospital, detailing the lack of care and negligent attitudes of nursing staff with regards to providing appropriate food and drink to the elderly patients. Design/methodology/approach – This paper...

Purpose – The research reported here aims to scope the concept of self‐neglect as it is explored in the literature and interpreted in practice by professionals involved in adult safeguarding. Design/methodology/approach – The approach taken included a systematic search and thematic...

Purpose – Adult Safeguarding Boards are the means by which local authorities in England and Wales seek to work collaboratively to protect adults at risk of abuse. The last two years have heralded the emergence of the role of Independent Chairs. This paper seeks to outline the experience of...