Policy, procedures, forms, leaflets posters
Every day adults in County Durham suffer abuse or ill treatment in many different ways such as physical, verbal, sexual or financial. Keeping adults safe from abuse, harm or neglect is known as 'Safeguarding Adults'. Copies of our leaflets and posters can be found on our leaflets and posters page.
Safeguarding Policy and Procedures
Professionals need to be familiar with the safeguarding policy and procedures. which are regularly updated.
Please see attached document:
Risk Support Tool
There is a new risk support tool (to be used from 1st April 2012):
RISK THRESHOLD TOOL March 2012.pdf (2 pages, 65kb)
Documentation- Printable Forms
There are some specific forms for Lead Officers to use in safeguarding work which are listed below and are printable versions:
Standard Letters
Skin Damage Protocol
Please click on the link below to access the skin damage protocol.
Skin_damage_protocol.pdf (18 pages, 261kb)
Large print version Skin_damage_protocol_large_print.pdf (29 pages, 270kb)
Seriously Vulnerable Individuals
This procedure covers vulnerable adults who are currently not active cases and do not want, or are deemed not to require an assessment of need, but who are at risk of serious or significant harm, often because of their behaviour or lifestyle choices. This often arises from a culmination of events leading to significant cause for concern.
Seriously Vulnerable Individuals Procedure.pdf (5 pages, 24.6kb)
Multi Agency Risk Management Plan App2.pdf (2 pages, 11kb)
Potentially Dangerous Persons
These procedures provide guidance on the identification, referral and management processes for Potentially Dangerous Persons (PDPs).
The definition of a PDP is as follows: "a PDP is a person who has no been convicted of, or cautioned for any offence placing them into one of the three MAPPA catergories, but whose behaviour gives reasonable grounds for believing that there is present a likelihood of them committing an offence or offences that will cause serious harm".
Serious harm is defined in the National Offender Management Service MAPPA Guidance 2007 as "(harm) which is life-threatening and/or traumatic and from which recovery, whether physical or psychological, can be expected to be difficult or impossible".
Very high risk of serious harm is defined in the MAPPA Guidance as "there is imminent risk of serious harm. The potential event is more likely than not to happen imminently and the impact would be serious".
Violent and sexual offences recognised as meeting the threshold of serious harm are outlined in Section 224 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Schedule 15) and provide a guide to the offences which could qualify for referral of a Potentially Dangerous Person.
Potentially Dangerous Persons Policy and Standard Operating Procedures.pdf (2 pages, 19.4kb)
Mappa - PDP Referral Form Appendix A.pdf (4 pages, 74.4kb)
Potentially Dangerous Persons Policy and Standard Operating Procedures (2).pdf (21 pages, 167kb)
Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) is used to ensure a consistent approach to protecting victims of domestic violence who are at risk of significant harm or death.
North MARAC Referral Form July 2010.pdf (7 pages, 42.4 kb)
South MARAC Referral Form July 2010 (2).pdf (7 pages, 42.9kb)
DASH Risk Assessment Form.pdf (5 pages, 86kb)
Hate Crime
Hate crime is a criminal offence where the victim is targeted because of their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Please click on the link below for more information.
Hate Crime leaflet.pdf (2 pages, 266kb)
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