Safeguarding Adults definition

Safeguarding Adults means protecting an adult’s right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect.

Safeguarding Adults means protecting an adult’s right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect. It is about people and organisations working together to prevent and to stop both the risks and experience of abuse and neglect, while at the same time making sure that the adult’s wellbeing is promoted including, where appropriate, having regard to their views, wishes, feelings and beliefs in deciding on any action;

Safeguarding Adults means that there is a responsibility at all levels to ensure that those adults who are most vulnerable, and who are living in the Borough, are kept safe for avoidable abuse or mistreatment. This means reducing the likelihood of harm to those adults and where an incident has happened has happened, we support the individual through the experience and work with all parties to try to ensure that this does not happen again.

Examples of Safeguarding Adults in a sentence

• Where the concern relates to the welfare of a pupil who is aged 18 or over, the DSL will consider whether it is necessary to refer such concerns to the Safeguarding Adults Board rather than, or in addition to, children's social care.

• Safeguarding Adults means protecting an adult’s right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect.

• If there is no immediate risk relating to safety or the individual’s welfare, it remains important to discuss any concerns with your designated safeguarding professional or Local Authority Safeguarding Adults Team and follow adult safeguarding policies and procedures.

• An allegation of abuse or neglect of an adult at risk, who does not have capacity to consent on issues about their own safety, will always give rise to action under the Safeguarding Adults process and subsequent decisions made in their best interests will be made in line with the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Capacity Act Code.

• The Care Act 2014 put Safeguarding Adults into a statutory framework for the first time from April 2015.

More Definitions of Safeguarding Adults

Safeguarding Adults means we have a responsibility at all levels to ensure those adults who are most at risk and who are living in the Borough are kept safe for avoidable abuse or mistreatment. This means reducing the likelihood of harm to those same adults by ensuring for example that the practice of care in a local residential home is of a good standard. It also means where abuse has happened ensuring we work alongside the person concerned to ensure that the abuse does not happen again.

Safeguarding Adults means making sure that adults at risk live free from abuse and neglect. This used to be called ‘Adult Protection’. Everyone working in public services has a responsibility to report suspicions or allegations of abuse of adults at risk and children.

Safeguarding Adults means making sure that adults at risk live free from abuse and

Safeguarding Adults shall have the same meaning as “safeguarding vulnerable adults” in the Local Authority‟s Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Policy; ‘Service’ shall mean granting the Local Authority sole nomination rights for each Unit at the Properties and carrying out the obligations of the Association that are set out in Schedule 3 in accordance with this Agreement;

Safeguarding Adults means protecting a person’s right to live in safety, free from abuse and

Safeguarding Adults means protecting an adult’s right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect. Any adult at risk of abuse or neglect should be able to access appropriate help to address concerns and to enable them to live a life free from violence and abuse whilst remaining involved and at the centre of all decision making.

Safeguarding Adults. A National Framework of Standards for good practice and outcomes in adult protection work (ADSS 2005)