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
- Recommendations.
- Key definitions.
- Recognising the safeguarding role of housing staff.
- Responding to concerns from housing staff.
- Sharing information, joint working and communication.
- Working with safeguarding partners to support carers.
- Supporting perpetrators of anti-social behaviour.
- Learning about safeguarding from experience.
- Useful information.
Guidance for Housing Managers
- Recommendations.
- Key definitions.
- Multi-agency safeguarding procedures.
- Ensuring your staff understand safeguarding.
- Thresholds for reporting safeguarding concerns.
- Raising safeguarding awareness of staff and tenants.
- Recording tenants at risk of abuse.
- Training and support for housing staff.
- Sharing information, joint working and communication.
- Dealing with anti-social behaviour.
- Preventing abuse and neglect.
- Useful information.
Guidance for Local Authority Social Care Staff
- Recommendations.
- Key definitions.
- Recognising the safeguarding role of housing staff.
- Responding to concerns from housing staff.
- Sharing information, joint working and communication.
- Working with safeguarding partners to support carers.
- Supporting perpetrators of anti-social behaviour.
- Learning about safeguarding from experience.
- Useful information.
Reference
Adult safeguarding for housing staff: guidance for local authority social care staff. London: Social Care Institute for Excellence, April 2014.