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The Care Act & Safeguarding

Sarah Davis CIH May 2015

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Care Act 2014

Aims:

• Single framework for planning, funding and

providing care & support

• Transparency on what to expect and what

to pay

• Promote prevention – reduce/ delay
• Services built around individual’s wellbeing
• Carer’s right to assessment
• Integration of health & care
• SABs statutory basis

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Important for housing?

• Beneficiary of many housing & support services –

care and particularly health

• Key partner to deliver shift from acute to community

based and preventative services

• Shared residents/ clients/ patients
• Increasing numbers of adults at risk in general needs

housing

• Cross cutting agendas – housing’s role in ASB,

harassment, domestic abuse, tenancy sustainment, etc.

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Expectations of housing

• Opportunities for better working and integration
• Expectations on your role as a partner
• Duty for local housing authorities
• Population and individual based strategic approaches

to services At a glance:

• Wellbeing – suitable accommodation
• Housing = ‘health related provision’
• Housing mentioned >150 times in guidance

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Wellbeing

Section 1 (1) …the local authority has a general duty to promote and individual’s wellbeing

A broad concept that includes:

• Suitability of accommodation
• Social and economic wellbeing
• Physical and mental health and emotional wellbeing

Meeting needs, not fitting people to services Hsg mgt: e.g. sensitivity of allocations, neighbourhoods and ASB

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Prevent, reduce, delay

Section 2 – preventing, reducing or delaying needs for care and support

• Role of universal and support services: supporting

safer neighbourhoods; promoting healthy & active lifestyles; reduce isolation

• Understanding and planning for current and future

needs (assessment process)

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I & A/ Integration

Section 4

• I&A on care and support
• Not a narrow focus on

C&S

• ASB services,

handypersons, home improvements, housing

• ptions
• Section 3
• Integration with health

and health-related services, including housing - 3 (5)

• Across other duties in

act.

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Safeguarding in the act

Sections 42-47

• Sets Safeguarding Adult boards on statutory footing
• Relevant partners: LA, police, probation and health
• Required to set out strategic plan annually and report

progress

• Undertake Safeguarding Adult Reviews
• Can ask others to undertake enquiries (housing

support officers?)

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Safeguarding

6 principles: Empowerment Prevention Proportionality Protection Partnership Accountability

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Safeguarding

Expectations of those in contact with adults at risk: Clear operational policies and procedures reflecting/ in consultation with SAB’s framework

• Id adults with care and support needs
• Recognise risk, & signs/ symptoms of abuse
• Routes for referral (internal and external)
• Protection for whistleblowers
• Working within and to regulatory framework
• Working to agreed operational guidelines

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Some ‘what to dos’

• Map out SABs , relevant contacts & partnerships –make sector

accessible, find best way to engage locally

• Shared protocols on information sharing and referral

processes – do you have these already?

• Clear policies and procedures – links btwn safeguarding, ASB,

DV, harassment

• Senior management and board champions
• Regular training (across partners) for staff & contractors
• Knowing your data, emerging issues, risks
• Robust procedures for recording concerns, decisions, actions,

and monitoring progress – case mgt principles

• Close the feedback loop – review action and learn/ continuous

improvement

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Some more ‘what to dos’

Awareness raising with residents/ training Customer profiling - Identify people

• With care & support needs (whether or not LA meeting those

needs)

• Experiencing or at risk of abuse or neglect
• Unable to protect self from abuse / neglect (or risk of) as a

result of those care & support needs

Risk can arise at any time:

• Tenancy sign up
• Tenancy reviews
• Housing management issues/ arrears
• Potential trigger points

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Stat partners

• Recognise / respect role of housing in safeguarding
• Involve housing in shaping strategy, policies and

protocols

• Develop multi agency training
• Develop clear processes:
• to raise and escalate concerns,
• how to intervene at early stages,
• where to go and when if not safeguarding?
• SCIE guidance for partners

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Resources

• CIH how to promote

good adult safeguarding practice

• Housing and

safeguarding adults alliance – checklists, examples, influencing.

• SCIE: adult safeguarding

for housing

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Sarah.davis@cih.org 02476 851793 @sarahdavisCIH www.cih.org