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  • No Secrets: Guidance on developing and implementing multi-agency policies and procedures to protect vulnerable adults from abuse

    This Department of Health report is recommended to all commissioners and providers of health and social care services including primary care groups, regulators of such care services and appropriate criminal...

  • CSCI Fact Sheet on Elder Abuse

    This fact sheet, created by the Commission for Social Care Inspection, provides a brief explanation of what is meant by abuse and offers advice on what to do if abuse is suspected. It includes useful...

  • Top Tips For Residential Staff

    This concise CSIP produced poster gives staff within care homes some simple but effective ways to ensure the dignity and respect of older people under their care.

  • CSCI National Minimum Standards

    This document sets out National Minimum Standards for Care Homes for Older People, which form the basis on which the new National Care Standards Commission will determine whether such care homes meet...

  • Dorset and Somerset Strategic Health Authority - Dignity on the Ward Audit Template

    This audit tool is designed to support the assessment of core standards for delivering dignity on the wards and departments of hospitals in community, acute and mental health sectors and for developing...

  • Help The Aged - My Home Life Report

    Part of the Help The Aged programme of the same name, this document part of a concerted drive to icrease the quality of life of older people in care homes by creating support for practitioners and accessible...

  • NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement - Mixed Sex Accommodation - Guidance and Checklist

    This guidance outlines 11 key principles to support the achievement of good physical separation of the sexes in hospital accommodation. It includes a self-assessment checklist to help trusts identify...

  • SCIE - Helping You Through a Hospital Stay

    This resource is useful in many service settings, including within hospitals. For example: Domiciliary carers could distribute it to older people at home before a visit to hospital care homes could have...

  • UKHCA Adult Protection Toolkit

    This toolkit aims to equip home care providers with everything they need to write and review policies and procedures for protecting vulnerable adults from harm. It contains information on: The nature...

  • UKHCA Code of Practice

    The United Kingdom Homecare Association Ltd (UKHCA) is the national representative association for member organisations providing care, including nursing care, to people in their own home. The mission...