All Wales Adult Protection Policy and Procedures

1. All Wales Adult Protection Policy and Procedures Mick Collins Senior Manager Policy and Development June 2010

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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 all-Wales 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. And more guidance on • Thresholds • Relevant laws • Domestic violence (and MAPPA) • Forced marriages • Training requirements

14. It should be worth waiting for! • Any questions ? • (or email mickcol@powys.gov.uk)