Surrey Supporting People

Info for providers

Good Practice

During discussions and reviews, many service providers have expressed a wish to be able to share good practice with colleagues, particularly policies and procedures. The documents posted here will hopefully give a head start to any organisation wishing to produce a new policy/procedure, or review their old one. So please feel free to use them and amend them to suit the needs of your organisation.

If you have something which you believe to be 'Good Practice', and would like it to be posted on the site, please send it to us via the 'contact Us' link.

As Service Reviews continue, we hope to be able to build up a library of Good Practice, which will help service providers across Surrey.

Good Practice Library

Safeguarding Adults Policy for Charities and Community Groups

Do you receive letters and forms which are hard to understand?

This is a letter you can send back requesting an easy to read version.

NHF - Easy read tenancy and support agreement

for people learning disabilities and literacy issues.

National Housing Federation, Lion Court, 25 Proctor Street, London WC1V 6NY. 020 7067 1010.

Publications Direct, 0870 010 7676, email bookshop@housing.org.uk, www.housing.org.uk.

Price: Ł32.95 (Ł29.95 for NHF members) plus p&p

ODPM'S Guide to the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order (RRFSO)

This guide offers help and advice on how to make your premises safe from fire.

New National Standards for Safeguarding Adults

This document has been welcomed by Liam Byrne (Care Services Minister DoH).He says "Safeguarding Adults shows clearly how many stakeholders can be involved in preventing and investigating abuse. Vulnerable people who are being abused have the right to expect that abuse to stop. I'm grateful to the ADSS for highlighting the need for councils to make sure their adult protection procedures are working effectively"

Identifying good practice to accessing settled accommodation in the private rented sector

The paper is aimed at local authorities and their partners, including Supporting People teams, RSLs, voluntary organisations and private landlords and lettings agents.

Improving access to the private rented sector, and helping people sustain existing private sector tenancies will have a positive impact on preventing homelessness,as well as assisting authorities to meet the target of reducing the use of temporary accommodation by 50% by 2010.

We hope you find the good practice examples in the paper helpful.

Leaflets from the Protecting Vulnerable Adults Team

Posted on this website on January 2006

New Protecting Vulnerable Adults, Surrey Multi-agency approach manual

DAAT - SP Southwark Housing guidance

Whistleblowing

Information and guidance regarding Whistleblowing can be found at the Public Concern at Work websitewww.pcaw.co.uk