Social care - Adults' Services policies and procedures

• Adult safeguarding
• Carers
• Comments and complaints
• General care and support
• Health and medication
• Learning difficulties
• Mental capacity
• Mental health
• Recording and information sharing
• Self-directed support (SDS)
• Standards of conduct for social care workers 

In this section you can find policies and procedures relating to our social care services for adults.

Please contact us if you have any questions about any of the documents:

Email: socialcare@westsussex.gov.uk

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Adult safeguarding

• Multi-agency safeguarding vulnerable adults policies and procedures 
  (external link)
• West Sussex FAS Team Access Criteria 2012
  (PDF, 9 pages, 60KB)
• West Sussex FAS Team Access Criteria Quick Reference 2012
  (PDF, 4 pages, 47KB)  

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Carers

• Carers' assessments, carers' services guidance and procedures policy 2009 (PDF, 16 pages, 128KB)

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Comments and complaints

To make a comment on or to complain about adults' social care please see our Complaints about adults' social care page.

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General care and support

• Missing persons protocol (PDF, 1 page, 18KB)
• Purchasing care and support in West Sussex 2009 - This protocol is in the process of being updated due to the changes introduced under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated activities) Regulations 2010. We will publish the amended protocol here soon.
• S.47 National Assistance Act - West Sussex Adults' Services policy and procedures 2011 (PDF, 25 pages, 101KB)
  

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Health and medication

• Medication policy 2011 (PDF, 65 pages, 1MB)
• Appendix C - Care provider medication risk management and agreement plan (PDF, 4 pages, 271KB)
• Appendix E - Temporary medication administration record (PDF, 1 page, 364KB)
• Appendix F - Medication record for day services (PDF, 1 page, 200KB)
• Appendix G - Medication record for Monitored Dosage System
  (PDF, 1 page, 200KB)
• Appendix J - Protocol for administering 'when required' medicines
  (PDF, 1 page, 89KB)
• Appendix K - Confirmation of advice obtained from a pharmacist or GP to administer a non-prescribed medicine (PDF, 2 pages, 110KB)
• Appendix P - Emergency medication treatment plan (PDF, 6 pages, 265KB)
• Appendix R - Collecting or receiving medicines record form (PDF, 2 pages, 760KB)

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Learning difficulties

• Personal relationships policy for adults with learning difficulties 2008 
  (PDF, 16 pages, 155KB)
• Personal relationships policy for adults with learning difficulties 2008 - easy read (PDF, 12 pages, 617KB)
• Physical intervention policy for people with a learning difficulty 2008 
  (PDF, 24 pages, 143KB)

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Mental capacity

Key to abbreviations used

• MCA quick reference guide 2012 (PDF, 2 pages, 155KB)
• MCA 2005 DoLS: Best interest assessments team: access arrangements 2011 (PDF, 9 pages, 148KB)
• MCA 2005 DoLS: Best interests assessors appointment panel policy and procedures (PDF, 13 pages, 78KB)
• MCA 2005: Best interests meetings: practice guidance 2011 
  (PDF, 14 pages, 76KB)
• MCA 2005 DoLS: guidance for care placement reviews 2011 
  (PDF, 8 pages, 52KB)
• MCA 2005 DoLS: guidance for managers of county council care homes 2011 (PDF, 18 pages, 199KB)  
• MCA 2005 Guidance for social workers and applications for a Lasting Power of Attorney (PDF, 5 pages, 43KB)
• MCA 2005 DoLS: operational policy (PDF, 10 pages, 162KB)
• MCA 2005 Signing tenancies policy and procedures 2012 (PDF, 13 pages, 79KB)
• MCA 2005 Signing tenancies quick reference guide 2012 (PDF, 4 pages, 49KB)
• Sussex IMCA and care reviews policy 2010 (PDF, 7 pages, 60KB)
• Sussex IMCA and safeguarding adults policy 2010 (PDF, 10 pages, 83KB)
  

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Mental health

• Accessing the AMHP service during working hours for MHA 1983 assessments (PDF, 9 pages, 111KB)
• MHA 1983 AMHP appointment panel guidance and procedures 2011 
  (PDF, 17 pages, 82KB)
• MHA 1983 AMHP cross border protocol guidance 2011
  (PDF, 10 pages, 61KB)
• MHA 1983 AMHP operational policy 2011 (PDF, 13 pages, 80KB)
• MHA 1983 AMHP practice handbook 2011 (PDF, 190 pages, 797KB)
• MHA 1983 Guardianship policy and guidance 2011 (PDF, 25 pages, 99KB)
• MHA 1983 section 6 conveyance Sussex procedures 
  (PDF, 20 pages, 99KB)
• MHA 1983 section 117 policy and guidance 2010 (PDF, 18 pages, 88KB)
• MHA 1983 sections 135 and 136 Sussex policy and procedures 
  (PDF, 27 pages, 181KB)

Recording and information sharing

• Warning information policy 2012 (PDF, 24 pages, 111KB) 

Self-directed support (SDS)

• Means and ability policy 2009 (PDF, 17 pages, 61KB)
• Operational policy for self-directed support 2009 (PDF, 18 pages, 160KB) 
• Discretionary property disregards procedures (PDF, 18 pages, 87KB)
• Discretionary property disregards procedures quick reference
  (PDF, 4 pages, 48KB)
• Fairer charging - charging for non-residential social care support guide 2011 (PDF, 41 pages, 363KB)
• Charging for residential accommodation guide (CRAG): Department of Health (link to DH website)
  
• Policy for reimbursement of expenses incurred by people who use services and carers 2009 (PDF, 8 pages, 90KB)

Standards of conduct for social care workers

• Boundaries for Social Care Practice Guidance 2012 (PDF, 13 pages, 73KB)
• Boundaries for Social Care Practice Quick Reference 2012 
  (PDF, 4 pages, 48KB)

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