A joint inspection of adult support and protection measures in Glasgow City health and social care partnership 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. 

The report found strengths in the following areas:

  • The partnership had implemented robust procedures to manage the very high volume of adult protection referrals. It had committed considerable resources and was transforming this area of practice to ensure further improvement. 
  • Collaborative and robust risk assessments helped to ensure that almost all adults experienced improvements in their circumstances. 
  • The health and social care partnership had a clear and well understood vision for adult support and protection.  This was threaded through adult support and protection strategies. A strong commitment to trauma informed practice underpinned this. 
  • Audit activity was driving change and improvement across the partnership.  There were cohesive governance arrangements that supported this.
  • Inspectors also identified areas which needed to improve:
  • The quality of chronologies required improvement as did the consistency of decision making around progressing investigations to initial case conference.
  • Aspects of case conferences required improvement. Stakeholder invites and attendance, accurate recording of attendees and the reasons why adults at risk of harm did not attend were areas for improvement.

Jackie Irvine, Chief Executive of the Care Inspectorate said: “The partnership’s vision was clear, and agencies collaborated effectively in most areas of work.  They recognised and responded to the increasing demands by developing new joint initiatives, models of working and oversight arrangements.

“We have asked the Glasgow City partnership to prepare an improvement plan to address the priority areas for improvement we identified. The Care Inspectorate, through its link inspector, Healthcare Improvement Scotland and His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland will monitor the progress made in implementing this plan.”

The full report can be read here.

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