The practice toolkit handbook guides you through the best approach and effective application of safeguarding with a range of helpful tools and practice based case examples.
This tool supports you individually, as a team, or as an organisation to consider the information and advice you provide about safeguarding processes and how to improve this.
This tool supports you to review what is working and not working for a person you are working with in terms of the safeguarding information and advice that they receive.
What might 'good' like for advocacy? contains a tool on page 26 which you can use as a checklist with a person involved in safeguarding and to inform the ways in which professionals communicate with people about safeguarding.
This tool aims to help practitioners identify restrictions in a person's care, in order to examine whether the care is the 'least restrictive' possible, as required by the Mental Capacity Act. It can also be used as part of care planning to 'promote liberty and autonomy' in care plans.
You can use this tool to help you to explore ethical dilemmas in supervision when working with complexity in promoting people's rights and safeguarding them from harm and abuse.
This tool helps people to build new internal working models with a different understanding of themselves and others. From this they can change their behaviours and, therefore, their relationships.
Solution-focused communication focuses on an individual's future hopes - helping them to look forward and use their own strengths to achieve their goals.
The restorative questions underpin a restorative practice approach and can be usefully applied in all practice in social care. Their aim is to understand the person’s perspective and to enable them to identify the resolution or solution.
This tool is based on a short SCIE video (six minutes) of a Plymouth City Council project which aims to support people with learning disability to have the confidence and skills to protect themselves. Each session involves a paid co-trainer who is an adult with learning disability.
