A joint inspection of adult support and protection measures in Inverclyde has found clear strengths in ensuring adults at risk of harm are safe, protected and supported.
However, inspectors also identified areas which could further improve.
Inspectors from the Care Inspectorate, Healthcare Improvement Scotland and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland carried out an inspection between 25 November 2020 and 22 January 2021.
This was the first of a series of inspections to be carried out across Scotland. They intend to provide assurance about local partnership areas’ effective operations of adult support and protection key processes, and leadership for adult support and protection.
Inspectors looked at health, police, and social work records of adults of risk of harm. This included the records of 50 adults at risk of harm. It also involved the scrutiny of recordings of 38 adult protection initial inquiry episodes.
In the report of the inspection, published today, inspectors say they found the Inverclyde partnership had taken positive steps to ensure there were improvements in the lives of adults subject to adult support and protection processes, and that they were safer because of the support and protection they received.
Effective communication, information sharing, collaboration and joint work were positive features of the partnership’s response to adult support and protection work.
And they found there was a high degree of confidence amongst staff that strategic leaders, including the adult protection committee (APC), provided good leadership for adult support and protection work.
Inspectors also identified key areas for improvement, including that the partnership’s practice standards and operating procedures need to be revised to ensure service managers apply a more consistent approach to adult support and protection chronology, risk assessment and protection planning work.
The partnership’s quality assurance performance framework should be further developed and more consistently applied to ensure a better understanding of results and the improvements required.
The chief officers’ group and adult protection committee should scrutinise quality assurance activity more robustly and ensure identified improvement work is carried out.
Peter Macleod, Chief Executive of the Care Inspectorate said: “The Care Inspectorate and our partners Healthcare Improvement Scotland and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland were asked by Scottish Ministers to carry out joint inspections of adult support and protection across Scotland.
“This is a report of our findings for Inverclyde partnership. It sets out how effectively they make sure adults at risk of harm are safe, protected, and supported.
“We found signs of encouraging progress in Inverclyde and have also set out areas that can be further improved to ensure that adults subject to adult support and protection are better protected.”
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The report is available here: http://bit.ly/JIRInverclyde