A Safeguarding Adults and Mental Capacity Act Development Framework is being developed to support practitioners at all levels. This will help increase knowledge, skills and understanding of their roles and responsibilities within Adult Safeguarding, Mental Capacity Act and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. Adult Social Care and Community Wardens are ensuring that victims are supported, furthermore we have in place a range of preventative strategies to try and stop people becoming victims in the first place. Community wardens visited over 1,000 scam victims as part of the the in order to educate and ‘Stop Scammers’ campaign, support the scam victim. Our safeguarding commitments to you: We will ask you at the beginning what you want to happen. We will listen to you. We will be polite and respectful Your privacy will be respected. We will tell you what we are doing and why. We will make enquiries carefully and sensitively We will tell you what our findings are and provide you with the support you require. We will ask for your views again at the end to see if we have met these standards. Safeguarding facts and figures 3273 safeguarding referrals were received during 2014/15 in comparison to 2013/14 when there were 3,176. In addition to this another 3,382 safeguarding contacts were received but did not meet the criteria to be referred for investigation. 34% of those referrals were not evaluated as abuse or discounted. Investigation ceased at individuals request makes other 5% 48% of those referrals had abuse confirmed or partially confirmed. 13% of the referrals investigated had insufficient evidence to confirm or discount them*. This is a decrease from 2013/14 where the percentage was 22%. This does not mean no action was taken, improvement areas may well have been identified and taken forward by the safeguarding teams.
A Safeguarding Adults and Mental Capacity Act Development Framework is being developed to support practitioners at all levels. This will help increase knowledge, skills and understanding of their roles and responsibilities within Adult Safeguarding, Mental Capacity Act and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. Adult Social Care and Community Wardens are ensuring that victims are supported, furthermore we have in place a range of preventative strategies to try and stop people becoming victims in the first place. Community wardens visited over 1,000 scam victims as part of the ‘Stop the Scammers’ campaign, in order to educate and support the scam victim. Our safeguarding commitments to you: We will ask you at the beginning what you want to happen. We will listen to you. We will be polite and respectful Your privacy will be respected. We will tell you what we are doing and why. We will make enquiries carefully and sensitively We will tell you what our findings are and provide you with the support you require. We will ask for your views again at the end to see if we have met these standards. Safeguarding facts and figures 3273 safeguarding referrals were received during 2014/15 in comparison to 2013/14 when there were 3,176. In addition to this another 3,382 safeguarding contacts were received but did not meet the criteria to be referred for investigation. 34% of those referrals were not evaluated as abuse or discounted. Investigation ceased at individuals request makes other 5% 48% of those referrals had abuse confirmed or partially confirmed. 13% of the referrals investigated had insufficient evidence to confirm or discount them*. This is a decrease from 2013/14 where the percentage was 22%. This does not mean no action was taken, improvement areas may well have been identified and taken forward by the safeguarding teams.