Professionals
Halton’s Safeguarding Adults Unit
Integrated Adult Safeguarding Unit (IASU
The IASU leads on adults safeguarding and dignity work across Halton: details on what the team does and useful contact details can be found here.
Provider-Led Concerns & Provider-Led Enquiries
Policy, Practice and Guidance
- Safeguarding Adult Policy
- Criteria for Reporting Adult Safeguarding and Provider Led Concerns
- Safeguarding Adults Procedures and Good Practice Guidance
- Provider Led Enquiry Guidance
- Provider led Concern Guidance
- Managing Concerns around People in Positions of Trust with Adults who have Care and Support Needs
- Allegations against People in a Position of Trust (PiPOT) Referral Form
- Allegations against People in a Position of Trust (PiPOT) Referral Form – information gathering tool from disclosures made from the public
- Safeguarding Induction Booklet
- Supporting people with dementia through safeguarding: Practice Toolkits
- Safeguarding process for GP Surgery’s
- GP Surgery Safeguarding Concern and Outcome Form
- Self-Neglect Policy
- Mental Capacity Act – Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Policy
- Guidance on Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards – Community Settings
- Key Safe Policy, Procedure & Practice
- Safeguarding Adults Case File Audit Policy
- Making Safeguarding Personal Commitment Leaflet
- Skills for Care: practical tools and support for adult social care organisations and employers
- Halton Safeguarding Adults Review Policy
- Pan Cheshire Risk of Radicalisation Strategy
- 2023 Halton Adults Safeguarding Prevention Strategy
- MARAM Policy
- Safeguarding Thresholds
- MARAC Operating Protocol
- Professional Challenge & Escalation Policy
- Multi Agency Guidance on Prevention & Early Intervention in Adult Safeguarding
Care Act 2014
Mental Capacity Act/ Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Useful Resources
- Identifying a deprivation of liberty: a practical guide - The Law Society
- HRCH Using The Mental Capacity Act in the community booklet
- Show How to Know How: A training film about using the Mental Capacity Act in the community
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) authorisations- YOUR RIGHTS
Useful Websites
Making Safeguarding Personal
Useful Resources
Concerning Discharges
In relation to concerning discharges from hospital
For concerns relating to a poor discharge from hospital, the information should be shared with the appropriate department of the hospital where the patient was discharged from:
For poor discharges relating to Warrington/Halton hospital information should be shared with [email protected]
For poor discharges relating to Whiston/St Helens hospital information should be shared with [email protected]
For support and advice around concerns relating to NHS care and treatment PALS can be contacted on:
Warrington/Halton 01925 275512
Whiston/St Helens 0151 430 1376
Toolkits
Videos
- The Spoken Word: A video by Cheshire East Service Users
- Real Safeguarding Stories. A free online resource for professionals
- Hoarding: Keith’s Story a film by Birmingham Safeguarding Adults Board
- Show How to Know How: A training film about using the Mental Capacity Act in the community
- Hidden Harms - Older adults and domestic abuse