Adults Wales
Legislation Statutory and Good Practice Guidance
The Welsh Government's Minister for Health and Social Services is responsible overall for safeguarding and protecting children and adults in Wales The National Independent Safeguarding Board was set up under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014. Specifically, the National Board has three primary duties. These are:
1. To provide support and advice to Safeguarding Boards with a view to ensuring that they are effective
2. To report on the adequacy and effectiveness of arrangements to safeguard children and adults in Wales
3. To make recommendations to the Welsh Ministers as to how those arrangements could be improved (S.132 (2)).
To find your local Council Report Child Abuse to Social Care
or dial 999 if an emergency
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
All Wales Safeguarding National Procedures app
LEGISLATION
ALL and MULTI-AGENCY SECTORS
Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018 England and Wales
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019
Public Health (Wales) Act 2017
Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016
Serious Crime Act 2015 Part 5 of this Act is about Protection of Children etc
Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015
Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014
Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
Improper administration of medicine –s.67 Medicines Act 1968
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
Mental Health Act 1983 Compulsory admission to hospital or guardianship for patients not involved in criminal proceedings (Part II).
Family Law Act 1996 (the 1996 Act)
The Protection from Harassment Act 1997
Trustees Act 2000 Includes trustees duty of care
Sex Offender Act 1997 see also 2003 An Act to require the notification of information to the police by persons who have committed certain sexual offences; to make provision with respect to the commission of certain sexual acts outside the United Kingdom; and for connected purposes.
Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 An Act to protect individuals who make certain disclosures of information in the public interest; to allow such individuals to bring action in respect of victimisation; and for connected purposes.
Freedom of Information Act 2000
The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 Special measures directions in case of vulnerable and intimidated witnesses
Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 An Act to make provision in connection with the protection of children and vulnerable adults.
The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007
The Serious Crime Act (2007) section 44
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Social Services and Well-being Act 2014 (Wales)
OTHER
STATUTORY GUIDANCE
ALL and MULTI-AGENCY SECTORS
All Wales Safeguarding National Procedures app
Welsh Government All safeguarding adult guidance
including:
- Working Together to Safeguard People: Volume 6 – Handling Individual Cases to Protect Adults at Risk
- Safeguarding people: an introduction
Multi-agency statutory guidance on female genital mutilation July 2020
Mandatory Reporting of Female Genital Mutilation – procedural information 2019
Revised Prevent Duty Guidance: for England and Wales April 2019
Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice updated 2016
Guidance on Part 2 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 March 2015
Multi-agency practice guidelines: Handling cases of Forced Marriage 2014
Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 March 2014
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Department for Health and Social Care all Regulations and Guidance
Welsh Government All safeguarding children guidance
OTHER
CPS So-Called Honour-Based Abuse and Forced Marriage Legal Guidance updated July 2019
GOOD PRACTICE GUIDANCE AND ADVICE
ALL and MULTI-AGENCY SECTORS
DBS filtering guide November 2020
All Wales Safeguarding National Procedures app
Female Genital Mutilation Prosecution Guidance updated October 17th 2019
Information and Guidance on domestic abuse: safeguarding older people in Wales 2017
Strategy for dealing with safeguarding issues in charities updated December 2017
DBS guidelines for a criminal record check from October 2nd 2017
CPS statements on Hate Crime 2017
Criminal Exploitation of children and vulnerable adults: County Lines guidance 2018
Whistleblowing: Prescribed persons guidance 2017
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Adult Safeguarding: Roles and Competencies for Health Care Staff August 2018
CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE
Female Genital Mutilation Prosecution Guidance updated October 17th 2019
REGULATORY AUTHORITIES
For Health and Social Care
Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016
The Private Dentistry (Wales) Regulations 2017
National Minimum Standards for Independent Health Care Services in Wales 2011
National Minimum Standards for Regulated Child Care 2012 revised 2016
Charity Commission
Charity Commission all Guidance and Regulation
including
