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Organisations have a responsibility to ensure that:

• They have organisational specific adult protection procedures giving a clear reporting structure for adult protection concerns by service users/clients, members of the public and staff - Organisation's reporting procedures

  These must be logged with the Adult Protection Unit

  Other relevant procedures are cross referenced and compatible with the organisation’s and the multi-agency adult protection procedures. For example:
  

Complaints
Whistleblowing
Disciplinary
Staff grievances
Risk management

• All staff are aware of the organisation’s reporting procedures and their responsibility to share information to protect people at risk

• The roles of lead manager for safeguarding adults and the alerting managers are clearly designated organisation’s lead manager for safeguarding adults - Organisation's reporting procedures

• The lead manager and alerting managers receive training, supervision and guidance for that role

• There are appropriate mechanisms in place for protecting whistleblowers

• The organisation enables and supports staff who report crimes to the Police

• Quality assurance functions such as complaints, risk management, clinical governance, human resources, supervisors and mentors have robust systems in place to identify and report adult protection concerns

• The organisation implements any actions it is able to within its remit to create an appropriate and effective immediate protection plan

• The organisation’s lead manager for safeguarding adults or other person designated - Organisation's reporting procedures - makes other organisations aware of circumstances where there may be risk to others – e.g. where the other organisation employs a person thought to cause a risk

• The organisation makes other agencies who may be able to help with the immediate protection plan aware of the concerns through that organisation’s lead manager for safeguarding adults

• The organisation makes any reports to external bodies that are required within existing guidance – e.g. to Regulatory bodies.