Find multi-agency policies and procedures

A list of links to legislation and guidance relating to adult protection.

This guidance helps care homes in Dumfries and Galloway keep adults safe from harm. It supports staff to understand their responsibilities and take action when someone may be at risk.

The financial harm strategy helps partners and agencies work collaboratively and efficiently to tackle financial harm in all its guises and wherever it occurs throughout our communities.

You have a responsibility to decide whether to share and exchange relevant information with other professionals when it comes to sharing information about your concerns about an adult, child or young person.

Independent significant case review reports aim to give the salient points to allow for analysis and also to pose questions on how Council Officers, in similar situations, might act.

This paper considers issues relating to concerns regarding adults at risk of harm who register to marry, where professionals involved have concerns about the nature of the proposed marriage and its consequences for the adult.

This protocol is for all practitioners who would be involved in the prevention, response, support, and protection of people, which includes both children and adults, who are at risk of or go missing.

This is a process established to respond to victims of domestic abuse who are at risk of significant harm and domestic homicide.

We want to make sure that all practitioners who work with adults who may be at risk of harm are aware of the processes in place and the actions that should be taken by agencies when harm is identified.

The purpose of this protocol is to provide updated guidance and an agreed protocol, on a multi-agency basis, on the provision of information in relation to the non-disclosure of information.