Safeguarding and Housing (SCIE)

Summary

The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) recently released a guide on safeguarding for the housing sector. It includes information – and examples from practice – to support local authority social care staff who work with housing sector staff.

” …content is based on SCIE’s knowledge base on safeguarding, including key research and policy”.

Read more: Adult safeguarding for housing staff / housing managers / local authority staff. (SCIE). The three main sections in the online version of this guidance comprise:

• Guidance for frontline housing staff and contractors.
• Guidance for housing managers.
• Guidance for local authority social care staff.

This content is further sub-divided as follows:

Guidance for Frontline Housing Staff and Contractors

1. Recommendations.
2. Key definitions.
3. Recognising the safeguarding role of housing staff.
4. Responding to concerns from housing staff.
5. Sharing information, joint working and communication.
6. Working with safeguarding partners to support carers.
7. Supporting perpetrators of anti-social behaviour.
8. Learning about safeguarding from experience.
9. Useful information.

Guidance for Housing Managers

1. Recommendations.
2. Key definitions.
3. Multi-agency safeguarding procedures.
4. Ensuring your staff understand safeguarding.
5. Thresholds for reporting safeguarding concerns.
6. Raising safeguarding awareness of staff and tenants.
7. Recording tenants at risk of abuse.
8. Training and support for housing staff.
9. Sharing information, joint working and communication.
10. Dealing with anti-social behaviour.
11. Preventing abuse and neglect.
12. Useful information.

Guidance for Local Authority Social Care Staff

1. Recommendations.
2. Key definitions.
3. Recognising the safeguarding role of housing staff.
4. Responding to concerns from housing staff.
5. Sharing information, joint working and communication.
6. Working with safeguarding partners to support carers.
7. Supporting perpetrators of anti-social behaviour.
8. Learning about safeguarding from experience.
9. Useful information.

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Reference

Adult safeguarding for housing staff: guidance for local authority social care staff. London: Social Care Institute for Excellence, April 2014.