Glossary
ADASS - Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
AfA - Advocacy for All
AMHP - Approved mental health professional (specialist social workers who carry out Mental Health Act assessments alongside similarly specialist doctors)
BCU - Basic Command Unit
BDD - Business Development Day
CADS - Child Advice and Duty Service
CAS - Community Action Sutton
CHC - Continuing Health Care (where the NHS provide funding for services rather than social care)
CoP - Court of Protection (a specialist court which makes specific decisions or appoints other people known as deputies to make decisions on behalf of people who lack the capacity to do so for themselves. The Court of Protection can: decide whether a person ‘has capacity’ (is able) to make a particular decision for themselves; make declarations, decisions or orders on financial or welfare matters affecting people who lack capacity to make these decisions; appoint a deputy to make ongoing decisions for people lacking capacity to make those decisions; decide whether a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) or Enduring Power of Attorney (EPA) is valid; remove deputies or attorneys who fail to carry out their duties; hear cases concerning objections to register an LPA or EPA)
CPD - Continuing Professional Development (learning activities that professionals undertake to maintain and develop skills)
CQC - Care Quality Commission (regulator of health and social care services)
D2A - Discharge to assess (a strategy where people are discharged from hospital without delay and then have their needs assessed more comprehensively)
DA / DV - Domestic abuse / domestic violence
DARA - Domestic abuse risk assessment (similar to DASH but used only by police at this time)
DASH - Domestic abuse, stalking and honour based abuse (police / multi-agency risk assessment tool)
DASS - Director of Adult Social Services
DBS - Disclosure and Barring Service (the service that supports safer recruitment by checking if a person has any convictions or other reasons why they should not work with children or adults at risk)
DARDR - Domestic Abuse Related Death Review - replaces DHR - Domestic Homicide Review (a review into the circumstances around a death of your friend or family member following domestic abuse)
DoLS - Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (a procedure linked to the Mental Capacity Act designed to protect an adult's rights if the care or treatment they receive in a hospital or care home means they are, or may become, deprived of their liberty, and they lack the mental capacity to consent to those arrangements)
DWP - Department for Work and Pensions
EDT - Emergency Duty Team (out-of-hours service for the Council)
EIO - Enabling Independent Officer
FGM - Female genital mutilation (a procedure where the female genitals are deliberately cut, injured or changed, but there's no medical reason for this to be done)
GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation
HBA/V - Honour-based abuse / violence
ICB - Integrated Care Board (this used to be known as the CCG, or Clinical Commissioning Group; statutory since 2022, ICBs bring together their local health and care organisations to improve outcomes, tackle inequalities through a local plan)
IDVA - Independent Domestic Violence Advocate
IMCA - Independent Mental Capacity Advocate
ISA - Information sharing agreement
LA - Local authority (e.g. London Borough of Sutton)
LGA - Local Government Association
LPA - Lasting power of attorney
LPS - Liberty Protection Safeguards (had been expected to replace DoLS in a revision to the Mental Capacity Act, but currently on hold)
MAHRP - Multi-Agency High-Risk Panel
MAPPA - Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (where various agencies, such as the police and probation services, work together to protect the public by managing risks posed by violent and sexual offenders living in the community)
MARAC - Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (a meeting to discuss ways to help victims at high risk of murder/serious harm)
MCA - Mental Capacity Act - can also stand for Mental Capacity Assessment
MDT - Multi Disciplinary team
MHA - Mental Health Assessment
MSP - Making Safeguarding Personal (a practice approach which expects safeguarding to be person-led and outcome-focused - "nothing about me without me")
OPG - Office of the Public Guardian
OT - Occupational therapist
PSIRF - Patient safety incident response framework (the NHS’s approach to developing and maintaining effective systems and processes for responding to patient safety incidents for the purpose of learning and improving patient safety)
PiPoT - Person in a position of trust
RCRP - Right Care, Right Person - a national policing approach implemented from 2023, designed to ensure that people of all ages, who have health and/or social care needs, are responded to by the right person, with the right skills, training and experience to best meet their needs. RCRP applies to those with mental health, and other health and social care, needs. In most circumstances, support will be provided by health and social care services.
S42 / Section 42 enquiry - the enquiries made by the local authority under the duties of section 42 of the Care Act 2014 which relate to safeguarding adults
SAB - Safeguarding Adults Board
SAPAT - Safeguarding Adults Practitioner Audit Tool
SAR - Safeguarding Adults Review
SCC - Sutton Carers Centre
SCIE - Social Care Institute for Excellence (an independent charity and improvement agency providing accredited training, consultancy, research and resources for the social care and health sectors)
SHP - Sutton Housing Partnership
SI - Serious incident
SLT or SaLT - Speech and language therapist
SW - Social worker
SWL&SGMHT - South-West London & St George’s Mental Health Trust
TOR - Terms of Reference
VAWG - Violence Against Women and Girls
