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Making Safeguarding Personal

Keeping the person’s wishes, choices and outcomes at the centre of safeguarding

Making Safeguarding Personal is an approach to adult safeguarding that focuses on working with a person rather than simply carrying out safeguarding processes around them.

This resource explores person-led and outcome-focused safeguarding, including what meaningful outcomes can look like, accessible participation, autonomy, consent, capacity and advocacy.

It also considers situations where the person’s preferred outcome differs from what professionals or family members believe should happen.

It includes:

What Making Safeguarding Personal means
Identifying outcomes that matter to the individual
Keeping the person’s voice central
Accessible communication
The six safeguarding principles
Consent and mental capacity
Independent advocacy
Balancing safety with autonomy
Practical safeguarding examples
What good person-centred safeguarding can look like

A supportive guide to safeguarding that recognises the person as an active participant in their own life rather than simply the subject of a safeguarding process.

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