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Voluntary Action Orkney and other Third Sector Partners; The Care Inspectorate; The Orkney Public Protection Committee have several committee meetings covering specialist areas in Children and Adult Services, these groups meet one every 3 months to ensure work progresses and we are continuing to develop services. "Tell Someone" campaign. Tell ...

Ensuring Rights and Preventing Harm, Interagency Guidelines A Quick Guide. This is a summary for staff and carers about how to recognise harm and what to do immediately when harm is suspected, witnessed or reported. It is still essential to refer to the full guidelines: Adult Support and Protection In Orkney.

ASP Code of Practice and the Orkney Interagency Adult Support and Protection Guidance. The current Scottish Government Code of Practice is in the final stages of revision at June 2021. Adjustments will be made on confirmation of changes. A. The Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007

Public Protection Guidelines October 2020 If you require this or any other NHS Orkney publication in an alternative format (large print or computer disk for example) or in another language, please contact the department of the Director of Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals.

The theme for this year’s National Adult Support and Protection Awareness Day today, is “Financial Harm Affecting Older Adults”. Lynne Nicolson, Team Manager, Social Worker and Mental Health Officer with Orkney Health and Care, said they have developed separate practitioner guidance specifically for financial harm.

Version: May 2011 4 2 Supporting and Protecting Children in Orkney 2.1 Core Child Protection Guidance This Core Child Protection Guidance should be read and applied alongside the Orkney GIRFEC Guide and the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland (2010). This Core Child Protection Guidance is compatible with the principles of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human ...

Significant progress has been made by services in Orkney in ensuring adults at risk of harm are safe, supported and respected. A review was carried out by the Care Inspectorate, Healthcare Improvement Scotland and His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland, following a previous joint inspection of adult support and protection conducted in 2023.

Building on the 2017-2018 inspections, this is one of 26 adult support and protection inspections to be completed between 2020 and 2023. They aim to provide timely national assurance about individual local partnership areas’ effective operations of adult support and protection key processes, and leadership for adult support and protection.

Orkney Inter-agency Child Protection Guidelines P0318-GUID-006 | 3.1 4 | 71 To contents page Foreword by the Independent Chair of Orkney Islands Public Protection Committee (CPC) Keeping unborn babies, children and young people safe is everyone’s job and everyone’s responsibility. Keeping them safe and protected from harm, abuse, neglect ...

10 Joint inspection of adult support protection in the Orkney partnership OFFICIALOFFICIAL For a few adults at risk of harm adult support and protection activity should have progressed beyond the inquiry stage but did not. This was because the level of risk was not sufficiently assessed or addressed. Management

Orkney Inter-agency Child Protection Guidelines P0318-GUID-006 | 2.2 5 | 27 To contents page The guidelines are based on the principles of working together and supporting inter-agency colleagues to: • Recognise Be aware that a child or young person may be at risk of significant harm and may need support and protection • Respond

The joint inspection of adult support and protection in Orkney has found substantial improvements are needed, while also noting some strengths in ensuring adults at risk of harm are safe, protected and supported. Inspectors found that partnership staff worked collaboratively to support and protect adults at risk of harm.

The theme for this year’s National Adult Support and Protection Awareness Day today, is “Financial Harm Affecting Older Adults”. Lynne Nicolson, Team Manager, Social Worker and Mental Health Officer with Orkney Health and Care, said they have developed separate practitioner guidance specifically for financial harm.

A joint inspection of adult support and protection in Orkney has found some strengths in ensuring adults at risk of harm are safe, protected and supported. However, inspectors also identified substantial areas for improvement. Inspectors found that partnership staff worked collaboratively to support and protect adults at risk of harm.

Events What’s on in Orkney; Contact; Subscribe ‘Seen Something, Say Something’ Adult Support & Protection ““Adult protection is everyone’s business and every member of our community is due our consideration and protection. ” John Paterson . theorkneynews. February 21, 2022.

This document is designed to clarify the roles and responsibilities of Orkney Islands Council, NHS Orkney and Advocacy Orkney in ensuring people affected by the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 are dealt with in line with the guiding principles of the Act. Adults at risk.

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Orkney Health and Care Chief Officer, Stephen Brown, said: “New procedures and guidance were introduced in 2023 which has been supporting staff to undertake their critical adult support and protection roles. This has been further aided by a range of new tools, templates and protocols around specific areas of adult protection practice.

The partnership operated a public protection committee (OPPC) which was multi-agency and fulfilled the joint role of child and adult protection committee. The OPPC introduced a new procedure in 2023, detailing adult support and protection processes and providing clarity for staff on the partnership’s practice expectations. The procedure