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Safeguarding Adults Policy

Safeguarding adults is an issue that concerns us all, and we all have a responsibility to ensure our fellow citizens are protected from physical, financial, sexual, psychological, discriminatory or institutional abuse or neglect.

The headlines in the press tend to focus on the abuse of children, particularly highlighting where agencies have failed and quite rightly resources are targeted to ensure children are protected.

Vulnerable adults also have the right to live as independently as possible and be protected from abuse. In March 2000, The Department of Health produced No Secrets (external website), which required local authority Community Services Departments to take the lead role in developing multi-agency Policies and Procedures to protect vulnerable adults from abuse.

The Coventry Safeguarding Adults Board has been established to oversee the writing, implementation, development, monitoring and evaluation of this Policy, Procedures and Good Practice Guide. It has members drawn from the statutory and voluntary and independent sectors. There is also a Safeguarding Adults Co-ordinator and an Administrator to support the Safeguarding Committee in its work. We believe that this demonstrates our commitment to actively tackling this issue.

This multi-agency Policy, Procedures and Good Practice Guide, which were launched on November 10th 2003, have been developed to protect the citizens of Coventry and all agencies are united in developing services to prevent abuse, and to ensure that where it arises it is dealt with to the highest professional standards.

Although Community Services is the lead agency, we will only deliver No Secrets by working together. Coventry has a strong base for developing services for citizens by working in partnership with agencies across the city, and we will continue with this tradition of safeguarding vulnerable adults.

Please follow the links below to view:

  • A quick reference guide to safeguarding adults.
  • The policy, procedures and Good Practice guides.
  • Contact details if you suspect a vulnerable adult is being abused.
  • Information leaflets.

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