Safeguarding Adults and the Care Act 2015  Who the safeguarding duties apply to  Duty to make enquiries  Additional 3 categories of abuse  The ‘Wellbeing Principle’  Making Safeguarding Personal  Advocacy & Safeguarding Enquiries  What we are doing in Cambridgeshire

Safeguarding Duty applies to an adult who:  Has needs for care and support (whether or not the local authority is meeting any of those needs) and  Is experiencing, or at risk of, abuse or neglect; and  As a result of those care and support needs is unable to protect themselves from either the risk of, or the experience of abuse or neglect

New duty:  Section 42 of the Care Act gives local authorities a duty to make enquiries, or cause others to do so.

Additional 3 Categories of Abuse:  Modern Slavery  Domestic Abuse  Self Neglect

The Wellbeing principle:  Local authorities must promote wellbeing when carrying out any of their care and support functions.  This applies to Safeguarding adults: Protection from abuse and neglect

Making Safeguarding Personal:  ‘ The fundamental shift….revolves around professional practice; practice that puts the adult and their wishes and experience at the centre of safeguarding enquiries and which seeks to enable people to resolve their circumstances, recover from abuse or neglect and realise the outcomes that they want.’ Clare Crawley, Senior Policy Manager Adult Safeguarding DH, 11 th November 2014

Advocacy:  Duty to arrange an independent advocate where the adult has ‘substantial difficulty’ in being involved in the process and where there is no other person to represent and support them.

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