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Making Safeguarding Personal: For safeguarding adults boards COVER

Making Safeguarding Personal: For safeguarding adults boards

These steps underline that development of Making Safeguarding Personal is not simply about a focus on personalised front line practice. It requires a whole system approach across and within organisations.

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Making Safeguarding Personal: supporting increased involvement of services users COVER

Making Safeguarding Personal: supporting increased involvement of services users

This resource underlines the way in which effective user involvement can support delivery of the six core safeguarding principles in practice as outlined in the Department of Health Care and Support Statutory Guidance.

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Making Safeguarding Personal: For safeguarding adults boards COVER

Making Safeguarding Personal: What might 'good' look like for advocacy?

Advocacy plays a critical part in safeguarding adults, both on the front line, and at a strategic level as a partner on safeguarding adults boards.

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Making Safeguarding Personal: what might 'good' look like for health and social care commissioners and providers?

Making Safeguarding Personal: what might 'good' look like for health and social care commissioners and providers?

Commissioners and providers across the health and social care sectors play a critical part in safeguarding adults, both on the front line and at a strategic level, as partners on safeguarding adults boards.

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Making Safeguarding Personal: What might 'good' look like for those working in the housing sector? COVER

Making Safeguarding Personal: What might 'good' look like for those working in the housing sector?

The housing sector plays a critical part in safeguarding adults, both on the front line and at a strategic level, as partners on safeguarding adults boards. It aims to support housing commissioners and providers to make safeguarding personal.

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Managing demand and delivering differently: responses to the assessment capacity challenge

The demographic and financial context in which the Care Act's reforms are being embedded demands that local authorities are pro-active in transforming their ways of working and business processes, to meet demand and capacity challenges.

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Measles: frequently-asked questions

The LGA has combined with Public Health England to provide some helpful guidance to councillors on Measles. This listing of frequently asked questions explains what is being done to reduce the spread of these latest local outbreaks of the disease and what vaccination strategies your local authority can adopt.

Meeting the health and wellbeing needs of young carers

Meeting the health and wellbeing needs of young carers

Being a carer takes its toll on a young persons education, physical health and emotional wellbeing. What can councils do to tackle these inequalities?

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Meeting the public health needs of the armed forces: a resource for local authorities and health professionals COVER

Meeting the public health needs of the armed forces

This resource has been developed for local authorities, local Defence Medical Services and those supporting the health needs of the armed forces community in England.

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Mental Capacity Act 2005: a brief guide for providers of Shared Lives and other community services

The LGA, NHS England and the Care Provider Alliance have published a guide to the Mental Capacity Act. This is aimed at supporting care providers providing community services.  

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