Safeguarding adults handbook

A new Trust version of the safeguarding adults handbook has been published and will soon be issued to every staff member.

The handbook covers:

• professional responsibilities
• categories of abuse
• your role as an alerter
• information sharing
• Mental Capacity act
• consent and best interests
• deprivation of liberty
• pressure ulcer staging
• prevent
• domestic violence and abuse.

The handbook will only be issued to every staff member on this occasion.