Transcript Powys Presentation Template 2007

All Wales Adult Protection
Policy and Procedures
Mick Collins
Senior Manager Policy and Development
June 2010
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Background to the work
• The evident need for one document
for Wales
• Forums requests to Welsh Assembly
at the Adult Protection Advisory
Group
• Decision by Forum Chairs not to wait
any longer
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Agreed Process (by Forum Chairs)
• Forums and Police nominate working group members
• Mick Collins to Chair
• Working group use Dyfed-Powys ‘on-line with links’
format
• The Dyfed-Powys Policies and Procedures are used
as the basis for the new document, informed by the
‘best bits’ of the other three
• Shouldn’t take long (!)
• Consult, amend and issue
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Working Group Members
North Wales Forum
Bev Larkins
Dyfed Powys Forum
Andy Kaye
South East Wales Forum
Louisa Laurent
South West Wales Forum
Kevin Jones
Leigh Thorne
Margaret Cresci
North Wales Police
Alan Green (initially)
Stephen Gould
Tony Gatley
(South Wales Fire Service
Des Mason)
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The Process
• Needed to be done properly rather than
quickly
• Painstaking merger of the P&P documents,
considering new material at each stage
• Each working group member tasked with
editing and amending sections
• Required expertise and commitment
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The Process
• Draft issued for March/April 2010 consultation
• Over 40 responses, some very detailed, plus
• Meeting with Wales Adult Protection
Coordinators
• Meetings with CSSIW inspectors
• Meeting with LHBs’ lead Vickie Warner and
LHB colleagues
• Re-write completion target July 2010
• Will produce an Interim document
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The Final Interim Document
• Separate sections for Policy, Procedures,
Forms, Appendix (Serious Case Reviews)
• Supporting, linked documents
• Ideally, a summary version
• Ideally, available in Welsh as well as
English
• To be launched
• To be supported by training
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Deputy Minister for Social Services, Gwenda
Thomas
“I am also pleased that at the operational level,
the Regional Chairs of the 4 Adult Protection
Forums in Wales have drafted a common allWales policy and procedures document and
issued this for consultation….” 30/03/10
Hopefully the Assembly will fund a launch
event which Mrs Thomas will open
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What doesn’t the new document
change
• Categories of Abuse – still as in “In Safe
Hands”
• Definitions- still as in ISH
• Language of “adult protection” – not
“safeguarding” (yet)
Thus this document is INTERIM
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What does the document provide
• Adult protection processes streamlined to
incorporate current best practice so that it
will be more effective and consistent
throughout Wales
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Some of the changes
• Alleged victims (and/or their advocates) central
to/engaged in the process
• Explicit, recorded risk assessment required
throughout case management
• Standard documentation/forms (content, not format)
• Additions
- ISA
- DoLS
- Escalating Concerns
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More guidance on
• The stages of adult protection
investigations
• Non criminal investigation methodology
• The roles of agencies (especially NHS
staff as DLMs and Investigators )
• Responsibilities to families
• Responsibilities to alleged perpetrators
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And more guidance on
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Thresholds
Relevant laws
Domestic violence (and MAPPA)
Forced marriages
Training requirements
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It should be worth waiting for!
• Any questions ?
• (or email [email protected])
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