Making Safeguarding Personal

Developing a safeguarding culture that focuses on the personalised outcomes desired by people with care and support needs, who may have been abused is a key operational and strategic goal. Safeguarding Partnerships therefore may want to consider the role they can play in embedding the ‘Making Safeguarding Personal’ approach across agencies by establishing and developing:

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a broader participation strategy

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accessible information to support participation of people in safeguarding support

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a focus on qualitative reporting on outcomes as well as quantitative measures

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advocacy

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person-centred approaches to working with risk

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policies and procedures that are in line with a personalised safeguarding approach

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strategies to enable practitioners to work in this way, by looking at the skills they need and the support they are getting to enable this shift in culture.