Invitation to Quote – 24/10/2016
Making Safeguarding Personal 2016/17 Specification
Background
The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) is engaged on a programme
to improve safeguarding adults work. It is carrying out this work in collaboration with the
Local Government Association (LGA) under the Care and Health Improvement Programme
(CHIP). The work is shaped by Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP). Making
Safeguarding Personal is a sector-led initiative which aims to develop an outcomes focus to
safeguarding work, and a range of responses to support people to recover or resolve their
circumstances. It is about engaging with people about the outcomes they want at the
beginning and middle of working with them, and then ascertaining the extent to which those
outcomes were realised at the end. In response to recommendations drawn from the
ADASS publication “Making Safeguarding Personal Temperature Check 2016” (Cooper &
Briggs et.al, (2016)), a consultant is required to deliver on two key areas of the overall
action plan.
Project A - Develop tools/guidance on what Making Safeguarding Personal should look like
in partner organisations, particularly for acute hospital trusts; primary care services,
ambulance services and the police, and how the Making Safeguarding Personal approach
to safeguarding adults can be implemented in partner organisations of Safeguarding Adults
Boards (SABs). Develop the existing draft document “Making Safeguarding Personal for
Safeguarding Adults Boards” (Cooper & Lawson (2016), London ADASS), including the
drafting of a new section to promote good practice in working with local advocacy
organisations.
1. Establish standards of what ‘good’ looks like in delivering the Making Safeguarding
Personal approach to adult safeguarding in organisations other than local authorities.
2. Devise strategies on how Making Safeguarding Personal principles can be translated
into partner organisations, in particular the police, acute hospital settings, primary care,
other emergency services, and advocacy organisations.
3. Develop tools/guidance for partner organisations to develop and embed a Making
Safeguarding Personal approach to adult safeguarding in their organisations.
Purpose
The purpose of this project is to promote personalised safeguarding adults arrangements
by:
(A) Supporting the operating and strategic processes and oversight of different
organisations in implementing Making Safeguarding Personal to be part of their
‘business as usual’ approach to safeguarding adults.
(B) Ensuring that there is full compliance with legislation, in particular supported decision
making under s.68 of the Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
(C) Supporting organisations to provide quantitative and qualitative data on safeguarding
outcomes for Safeguarding Adults Boards to monitor performance.
Invitation to Quote – 24/10/2016
Objectives
The key objective of this project is to develop a comprehensive Making Safeguarding
Personal toolkit to support the engagement of all partners with Making Safeguarding
Personal across the SAB. The work will build on the draft ‘Making Safeguarding Personal
for Safeguarding Adults Boards’ outlined by Cooper & Lawson (2016), which provides a
description of the support for Safeguarding Adults Boards to promote and support Making
Safeguarding Personal across the Safeguarding Adults partnership and feedback on the
document to London ADASS from Safeguarding Adult Boards. The toolkit will provide
guidance and examples to illustrate how Making Safeguarding Personal can work in
practice across and within partner organisations. Intrinsic to all aspects of the toolkit is the
principle of involvement of people who may require safeguarding services, and family
carers and friends who support them. Making Safeguarding Personal should not be viewed
as a separate activity but be central to all safeguarding adult work. There will be some
overlap with this commission and the work on Safeguarding Adult Boards and engagement
with adults at risk (see Project B below).
Deliverables:
1. A review of plans in the nine ADASS regions to support Safeguarding Adults Boards in
working with the six safeguarding principles and Making Safeguarding Personal
approach.
2. Guidance on the management of risk, and how to balance wellbeing and safety in
safeguarding, using the Making Safeguarding Personal approach.
3. Guidance on how all partners can assess the effectiveness of Safeguarding Adult Board
performance and quality assurance frameworks to support Making Safeguarding
Personal
4. Guidance for partner agencies and organisations on how the Making Safeguarding
Personal approach can be developed and evidenced, with tools as appropriate for key
sectors/services (health, police, emergency services, voluntary sector, providers etc.)
5. Measurable Making Safeguarding Personal outcomes for all Safeguarding Adult Board
member organisations, to enable the assessment of the performance and quality of
safeguarding work, and to facilitate learning to support the quality assurance role of the
Safeguarding Adult Board.
The toolkit and accompanying guidance products will provide generic templates that should
allow some sovereignty for organisations to meet their governance arrangements, and
minimise duplication and analysis of safeguarding work, when working across Safeguarding
Adult Board boundaries. The toolkit should allow organisations to self-audit their
performance and take forward organisational learning. The requirements of the Data
Protection Act 1998 must be considered and allowance made for information sharing with
other organisations to improve safeguarding.
The consultant needs to be mindful of the agreed national reporting framework for
Safeguarding Adults (NHS Digital). The final toolkit must be accessible and supported by
easily understood guidance that allows organisations to fulfil their statutory safeguarding
responsibilities. It must be written using simple English and be free from jargon and
acronyms.
Invitation to Quote – 24/10/2016
Project B - To develop a guide/toolkit to support the increased engagement of people who
have experienced safeguarding with Safeguarding Adults Boards, using the Making
Safeguarding Personal approach.
1. Establish what strategies are used by those Safeguarding Adults Boards where there is
effective engagement with adults at risk by reviewing the Making Safeguarding Personal
Temperature Check 2016
2. Distinguish between engagement with organisations such as advocacy and voluntary
and community organisations and engagement with individuals who have experienced
safeguarding
3. Review what has worked in the past and why this may be no longer viable
4. Establish what support is needed for effective engagement with people using
safeguarding services
5. Consider resources and Safeguarding Adults Board budget allocation
6. Identify how people who lack capacity can make an impact on strategic planning and
shape safeguarding services
Purpose
The purpose of this project is to promote personalised safeguarding arrangements by:
(A) Ensuring that there are systems and structures in place for adults at risk and local
residents to have their voice heard at the Safeguarding Adults Board.
(B) Ensuring that Safeguarding Adults Boards engage with, and promote partnership
working with, adults who are in contact with safeguarding services from all partner
organisations.
(C) Support for local carers’ groups to influence strategic planning of Safeguarding Adults
Boards.
Objectives
The key objective for this project is to develop ways in which Safeguarding Adults Boards
can achieve engagement with adults who have care and support needs that take into
account anti-discriminatory practice and embrace the principles of the Equality Act 2010.
Engagement must reflect all organisations, and those with differing care and support needs,
or health and wellbeing, or learning needs. The output must place the involvement of adults
at risk in the work of the Safeguarding Adults Board as paramount, acknowledging the
different perspective for family/friend carers.
Deliverables
1. Guidance that demonstrates, through example, how engagement with adults at risk and
carers in shaping services and strategic planning can add value to the work of the
Safeguarding Adults Board.
2. A Toolkit based on effective engagement to reflect the different needs of adults at risk.
3. Examples of resources used to enable people to fully participate, to include likely cost,
staff time, accessible venues, professional carer support time, interpreters etc.
4. Outline terms of reference for engagement that can be adapted to meet local need.
Invitation to Quote – 24/10/2016
The toolkit and accompanying guidance products must be available in both written English
using simple English and be free from jargon and acronyms, and Easy Read where
appropriate, and adaptable to other formats. The requirements of the Data Protection Act
1998 must be considered and allowance made for information sharing with all organisations
to improve safeguarding.
For Both Projects A and B
Work to be completed by the end February 2017. Invitations to quote can be for one or
both projects, and from individuals or groups with named consultants.
This project will be procured and managed by ADASS and monitored by the Making
Safeguarding Personal Task and Finish Group with updates to ADASS Executive, as and
when appropriate.
Deadline for bids 5.00pm on 11/11/2016, bids to be emailed to: [email protected].
Essential criteria for quotes for the work:
Those who quote must be able to evidence:
 expertise in adult safeguarding strategy, policy and practice, particularly Making
Safeguarding Personal
 communication (written and oral) skills
 effective networks
 experience of promoting, training or delivering Making Safeguarding Personal
approaches to adult safeguarding
 change methods and approach to this work
Providers must submit CVs (of all those delivering the work), including day rates, VAT
position, and details of availability to deliver the work in the required timescales.
Proposals to be maximum of 2 sides of A4 for each project.