Safeguarding Adults Procedures

40 base in towns, typically by taking over the homes of local vulnerable adults by force or coercion. This is known as cuckooing. County lines is a major, cross cutting issue involving drugs, violence, gangs, safeguarding, criminal and sexual exploitation, modern slavery and missing persons. The response to tackle it involves the police, the National Crime Agency, a wide range of Government departments, local government agencies and voluntary and community organisations. DAA/ IDVA (Domestic Abuse Advisor/ Independent Domestic Violence Advisor) a trained support worker who helps and advises victims of domestic violence. DHSC (Department of Health and Social Care) the government’s strategic leadership for public health, the NHS and social care in England. DHR (domestic homicide review) a review of the circumstances in which the death of a person aged 16 or over has, or appears to have, resulted from violence, abuse or neglect by (a) a person to whom she or he was related or with whom she or he was or had been in an intimate personal relationship, or (b) a member of the same household as herself or himself. A DHR is held with a view to identifying the lessons to be learned from the death. DBS (Disclosure and barring service) is a non-departmental public body of the Home Office of the United Kingdom. It supports organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors to make safer recruitment decisions by identifying candidates who may be unsuitable for certain work, especially that involve children or adults, and provides wider access to criminal record information through its disclosure service for England and Wales. DoLS (Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards) is an amendment to the MCA (2005) and provides safeguards for adults who lack capacity specifically to consent to treatment or care in either a hospital or care home that, in their own interests, can only be provided in circumstances that amount to a deprivation of liberty. In March 2014 a judgment was made in the Supreme Court regarding two cases which have had a significant effect on DOLS work. The two cases are-  “P v Cheshire West and Chester Council and another”  “P and Q v Surrey County Council” The full judgment can be found here https://www.mhla.co.uk/news/p-v-cheshire-west-and-chester-council-and-p-and-q-v-surrey- county-council/ From April 2022 DoLS will be replaced by Liberty Protection Safeguards Domestic Abuse is any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are, or have been, intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality. The abuse can encompass, but is not limited to: psychological, physical, sexual, financial, and emotional harm. See Domestic Abuse Act 2021: overarching factsheet - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) an Act to make provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to adults, including the obtaining, holding, use or disclosure of such information. See Data protection - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) DVCVA (Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is concerned with criminal justice and concentrates upon legal protection and assistance to victims of crime, particularly domestic violence. It also expands the provision for trials without a jury, brings in new rules for trials for causing the death of a child or vulnerable adult (also known as an adult with care and support needs) and permits bailiffs to use force to enter homes.