Resources and Campaigns

Northamptonshire Safeguarding Adults Board is raising awareness of how to report a safeguarding adults concern. Please support #ReportIt by sharing and printing the leaflets, posters and social media messaging to your Northamptonshire networks.

Safeguarding Poster and Leaflet 

This poster and leaflet are designed to be printed and shared to help raise awareness that safeguarding is everyone’s busines and inform people how they can report a concern. The content contained within the posters is available on the report a concern page of our website. You may want to resize the poster to suit your needs.

• NSAB Report It Poster (PDF 946KB)
• NSAB Report It A5 Leaflet (PDF 404KB)

Social Media Graphics

These images are designed to be shared via your Northamptonshire Networks. Be social and support #ReportIt to help raise awareness of safeguarding adults. Remember, safeguarding is everyone’s business.

• Social media graphic one (PNG 1177KB)
• Social media graphic two (PNG 997KB)
• Social media graphic three (PNG 633KB)

Translations

The posters have also been translated into some popular languages to be shared with communities and networks. 

The practitioner guides below are short briefing documents for colleagues which cover a range of Safeguarding topics.

• Advocacy (PDF 147KB)
• Care Act 2014 (PDF 306KB)
• Closed Cultures (PDF 253KB)
• Cuckooing (PDF 265KB)
• Modern Slavery (PDF 122KB)
• Making Safeguarding Personal (PDF 266KB)
• Managing Difficult Conversations (PDF 231KB)
• Professional Curiosity (PDF 108KB)
• Safely Ceasing Involvement (PDF 225KB)
• Self-Neglect (PDF 280KB)
• Think Family (PDF 188KB)
• Transitional Safeguarding (PDF 115KB)
• Trauma (PDF 133KB) 

​Watch our range of bitesize videos to help inform your practice.

Controlling and coercive behaviour

Controlling and coercive behaviour is a type of domestic abuse. It may include use of acts designed to make a person feel inferior and/or dependent by keeping them apart from friends, help and support. This could include taking advantage of their money, stopping their independence, and controlling what they do. Controlling and coercive behaviour may also include acts of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation which is used to harm, punish or frighten the victim.

Cuckooing

Cuckooing is a practice where people take over a person’s home and uses the property to facilitate exploitation. There are different types of cuckooing including: using the property to deal or store drugs, using the property for sex work, taking over the property as a place to live or, taking over the property to financially abuse the tenant.

Information Sharing

Sharing information about individuals between partners is essential if adults at risk of harm and abuse are to be kept safe and to ensure they receive appropriate support. Information sharing should only happen when it is legal and necessary to do so and adequate safeguards are in place.

Making Safeguarding Personal

Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) is a person-centred and outcome focused approach to safeguarding adults. It emphasises that the adult concerns must always be at the centre of adult safeguarding, and their their wishes and views should be sought at the earliest opportunity.

Modern Slavery

Modern Slavery is defined as the recruitment, movement or harbouring of women or men through the use of force, coercion, abuse of vulnerability or deception. It includes holding a person in a position of slavery, forced or compulsory labour, or facilitating their travel with the intention of exploiting them.

Professional Curiosity

Professional curiosity is about having an interest in an indvidual and their life, rather than making assumptions. Curious professionals engage with individuals and families through visits, conversations, observations, and asking relevent questions to gather current and historical information.

Self-Neglect

Self-Neglect is when a person is unable, or unwilling, to care for their own essential needs. It can cover a wide range of behaviour including neglecting personal hygiene, health or surroundings, refusal of necessary support and obsessive hoarding.

Think Family

Think Family approach refers to the steps taken by children’s, young people’s and adult’s practitioners to identify wider family needs which extend beyond the individual they are supporting.

A keeping safe from abuse easy read summary has been developed to help those with care and support needs understand what abuse is and how to keep themselves safe.

A voiceover, which talks through the document, has also been produced and can be accessed below.

• Keeping Safe from Abuse – Easy Read Summary (PDF 858KB)
• Keep Safe from Abuse – Easy Read Summary Voiceover

A self-neglect leaflet has been developed to support frontline practitioners to identify and work with those self-neglecting. 

Self-neglect leaflet (PDF 1717KB)

 These key messages have been adapted by Northamptonshire Safeguarding Aduls Board and should be considered by practitoners across all agencies in the county when working with adults who self-neglect. 

Working with People who Self-Neglect (PDF 126KB)

These principles have been adapted by Northamptonshire Safeguarding Adults Board and should be adopted by practitioners across all agencies in the county.

It’s our responsibility to reach out to people, to make it easier for them to engage with us and to remove barriers to them being able to engage.

Principles of Engagement (PDF 138KB)

Sharing information about individuals between partners is essential if adults at risk of harm and abuse are to be kept safe, and ensure they receive appropriate support.

Information sharing should only happen when it is legal and necessary to do so, and adequate safeguards are in place to protect the security of the information. To support this, there are seven golden rules for information sharing.

Seven Golden Rules for Information Sharing (PDF 226KB)

The following Professional Curiosity resource has been developed by the National SAB manager network to support practitioners. 

Have you thought about Professional Curiosity? (PDF 66KB)

The frequently asked questions have been developed by NSAB to support practitioners when undertaking a Mental Capacity Act Assessment.

Mental Capacity Act Assessment Frequently Asked Questions (PDF 163KB)

Northamptonshire Safeguarding Adults Board have launched a number of animations which will support practice.

County Lines

This useful animation details what County Lines is, how it works, and how children and vulnerable adults are exploited.

The film was developed by the National County Lines Co-ordination Centre to raise awareness and explain how County Lines impacts the vulnerable, partners, law enforcement and society as a whole.

Cuckooing 

This animation raises awareness of home takeover (also known as cuckooing), the signs and indicators of cuckooing, why people might be reluctant to report concerns, where concerns can be reported to and where to go for advice.

We would like to thank Newcastle Safeguarding Adults Board for granting permission to adapt this animation for Northamptonshire Safeguarding Adults Board.

Hidden Harms – Domestic Abuse and Older Adults

The Hidden Harms animation highlights the unique challenges that older adults face when domestic abuse occurs. The aim of this short animation is to be a tool to support practitioners and families start a conversation with an older adult.

We would like to thank Norfolk Safeguarding Adults Board for granting permission to adapt this animation for Northamptonshire Safeguarding Adults Board.

It Happens to Us Too – Domestic Abuse and Disability

The It Happens to Us Too animation highlights that anyone, including individuals who have a disability, can experience domestic abuse. Everyone has the right to feel safe in their own home and there is support available.

We would like to thanks Sandwell Safeguarding Adults Board for granting permission to adapt this animation for Northamptonshire Safeguarding Adult Board.

Trauma Informed Practice

This animation was created to support the development of a trauma informed workforce.

Tricky Friends

Northamptonshire Safeguarding Adults Board have launched the Tricky Friends Animation* with the aim to help vulnerable adults understand what good friendships are and when they might be harmful.

It is important that adults with learning disabilities and autism, those who have cognitive difficulties, or young adults, have positive opportunities to make and maintain friendships.

The animation shows what good friendships should like like to vulnerable adults who may be less able to recognise the intentions of others and can be used as a tool to start conversations as to what good friendships look like, and keep vulnerable adults safe whilst enjoying friendships.

The video is less than 4 minutes long, and can be accessed via YouTube. A signed version is also available.

*with special thanks to Norfolk Safeguarding Adults Board for allowing Northants SAB to adapt.

What to do About Self-Neglect

The what to do about self-neglect animation raises awareness of self-neglect, signs you might identify if someone is self-neglecting and what can be done to help support these individuals.

We would like to thank the North East SAR Champions for granting permission to adapt this animation for Northamptonshire Safeguarding Adults Board.

Virtual learning events were held to support the publication of SARs 021, 022 and 024. These events were recorded to allow practitioners to listen to the training in their own time. We have also recorded learning conversations highlighting the key learning points (similar to a podcast).

SAR 021 – Temple Court Care Home

• SAR 021 – Temple Court Care Home – Sessions held Friday 24th November 2023 and Wednesday 13th December 2023.
• SAR 021 Learning Conversation

  SAR 022 – Teo

• SAR 022 – Teo – Session held Tuesday 12th December 2023.
• SAR 022 Learning Conversation

   

  SAR 024 – Adult A

• SAR 024 – Adult A – Session held Tuesday 6th December 2023. 
• SAR 024 Learning Conversation

To support the learning from SAR 024 – Adult A, North and West Northamptonshire Council Prinicipal Social Workers held a Think Family Training session for colleagues in the NSAB partnership in February 2024. The session was recorded and can be watched below. 

These resources have been developed by POhWER and Voiceability, the advocacy providers across Northamptonshire, to provide an understanding of advocacy.

What is advocacy?

Independent Mental Health Advocacy

NHS Complaints Advocacy

Human Rights in everyday life

​North Northamptonshire Council and Northamptonshire Police have produced a short VLOG which explains the role of Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) and when a Section 136 should be used.

​NSAB are pleased to share a range of example Mental Capacity Act (MCA) Assessment templates to aid practitioners when undertaking a MCA assessment.

• Mental Capacity Act Template 1 (Word – 35KB)
• Mental Capacity Act Template 2 (Word – 301KB)
• Mental Capacity Act Template 3 (Word – 32KB)
• Mental Capacity Act Template 4 (Word – 41KB)

Prevent Duty for Public Sector Staff

This video illustrates how public sectors under the Prevent duty work together to stop radicalisation.

Prevent Duty in Healthcare

This video sets out the key role that healthcare professionals play in the delivery of Prevent, stopping people from being terrorists or supporting terrorism.

Prevent Duty Guidance

A short film called Take a Closer Look has been launched by the Northamptonshire Office of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner and Northamptonshire Police, to raise awareness of modern slavery and exploitation.

The film depicts a scenario following a road traffic collision which highlights signs of modern slavery that aren’t immediately obvious. It invites viewers to ‘take a closer look’ whereby signs of exploitation become apparent.

If you have any concerns that you or somebody you know is a victim of modern slavery, report them to Northamptonshire Police on 101 or 999 in an emergency​. You can also contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or visit the Crimestoppers website, to give information 100% anonymously about modern slavery or any other crime.

In partnership with Northamptonshire Police, Northamptonshire Safeguarding Adults Board have relaunched the Herbert Protocol.

People caring for someone living with dementia are encouraged to use this initiative to help keep people with dementia safe and found.

The Herbert Protocol enables carers and families of people living with dementia to log key information about them on a form including their description, a current photograph, medical information, favourite locations and more.

Stored securely where the person lives, the form can be handed straight to the police if they are reported missing, providing immediate, detailed insight into their life and habits, helping direct search efforts so they can be found as quickly as possible.

Northamptonshire Police have also developed a tutorial video explaining how the Herbert Protocol should be used.

For more information please visit the Northamptonshire Police website.

Download the Herbert Protocol here.

​Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire have launched a podcast all about Safeguarding.

The podcast is great for staff, volunteers, trustees as an introduction or reminder that Safeguarding is everybody’s business.

NSAB Independent Scrutineer and the Safeguarding Team Manager in North Northants Council were invited to talk on the podcast so please listen out for their features across the series.

Listen to the podcast