This section of the website contains a range of resources, policy, guidance and toolkit documents produced by the East Sussex SAB or partner agencies of the SAB.
Some documents have been produced in conjunction with Brighton & Hove and West Sussex SABs.
The East Sussex SAB has produced Guidance on Raising Concerns about Abuse and Neglect to assist practitioners and providers across all agencies in considering risk relating to potential safeguarding concerns involving adults with care and support needs.
It aims to enable safeguarding concerns to be reported when it is appropriate to do so and that they are responded to in a consistent way. It provides a framework for multi-agency partners to manage risk and assists in differentiating between quality issues and safeguarding.
Supplementary guidance has been developed in relation to three specific areas:
The Sussex SABs have produced a Sussex Information Sharing Guide and Protocol which sets out how information between partner agencies of the SAB should be shared for the purposes of safeguarding adults.
This document includes good practice guidance around record keeping and information sharing within safeguarding meetings and discussions.
The East Sussex Mental Capacity Multi-Agency Policy and Procedures have been developed to provide guidance on the understanding of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and its application in practice across partner agencies of the SAB.
The SAB Resolution Protocol provides a process for resolving disagreements between agencies or professionals in relation to safeguarding or mental capacity decision making.
The East Sussex SAB has developed a range of strategy and guidance documents, which aim to ensure co-ordinated multi-agency responses to financial abuse, to clarify pathways, roles and responsibilities, and to improve engagement and achieve positive outcomes for adults who experience financial abuse.
The Sussex Multi-Agency Procedures to Support Adults who Self-Neglect are contained within the Sussex Safeguarding Adults Policy and Procedures.
The procedures take account of learning from Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs) involving cases of self-neglect and sets out a framework for collaborate partnership working when supporting adults who are experiencing self-neglect.
A briefing has been produced to provide an overview of the self-neglect procedures.
An additional self-neglect learning briefing was developed following the publication of the Adult A SAR and provides an overview of self-neglect, how to raise concerns and how to manage complex cases and ensure effective multi-agency responses.
East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service have developed a Multi-Agency Hoarding Framework which sets aims to ensure that anyone coming into contact or working with someone who is hoarding has an awareness of the tools and resources available.
Agenda and minutes templates have also been developed for use in multi-agency meetings relating to cases involving self-neglect:
The Falls Toolkit is designed to support practitioners to promote falls prevent and reduce the risk of adults experiencing harm or neglect from a fall.
