Adult Protection

The protection of adults at risk is a key area of partnership working.

JIT worked on an Adult Protection Shared Learning Initiative involving two areas – Glasgow Health and Care Partnership and the three Tayside partnerships (Angus, Dundee and Perth & Kinross) – for 18 months from November 2005 to May 2006. Relevant project reports can be accessed via the right hand panel on this page. The project highlighted important lessons for multidisciplinary and interagency development of improved working practices.

Audits of adult protection cases have indicated that there is a great deal of good practice in risk assessment and protection planning. However, the content of such assessments and plans are very often neither rigorous nor comprehensive. JIT's Adult Protection Shared Learning Initiative has devised formats to remedy this. The formats prescribe in detail what risk assessments and protection plans should include. They recognise that professional opinion and judgement are also fundamental to the process.

You can download copies of the Risk Assessment and Protection Plan formats via the right hand panel on this page, or via the Publications section of JIT’s website.

The formats have been tested on active cases from the various adult care groups. The general reaction from practice testing was extremely positive, with some staff groups adopting the formats for immediate use, and the partnership areas involved also taking them forward.

Please contact us if you would like more information about our Adult Protection project work.