Resources

Problem gambling is a condition which can include periods of recovery and relapse and can impact on mental health and emotional wellbeing, as well as having a financial impact. It is a hidden problem with high stigma and impacts on a person’s behaviour and their relationship with others such as family, friends and colleagues. The following resources will take you through what it means, what makes a person vulnerable, and what support is available.

Team Talk - Harmful Gambling

Gambling Harm Toolbox Talk - YouTube

The written word is the way we communicate facts and information. If we don’t write information down, how do we expect someone else to know what we have done or what has happened. Read our Team Talk on defensible documentation which takes you through what it is, why it is important as well as some top tips.

Team Talk - Defensible Documentation

The following video talks about Professional Curiosity, what it is, what skills it involves and why its really important that we are all professionally curious.

Professional Curiosity - YouTube

Predatory Marriage is the practice of intentionally targeting and marrying a vulnerable (often older) person in order to gain access to their estate and assets upon their death. Predatory Marriage relies on grooming and coercion to exert control over another person to persuade them to marry for financial, material or other gain. The following 7 minute briefing will take you through what is predatory marriage, legislation, what the signs are and what to do if you are concerned someone is a victim of this type of abuse.

7 Minute Briefing - Predatory Marriage

In October 2023, SASP conducted Multi-Agency Case Audit William. William appeared well presented to the few agencies he had contact with, he worked, and he owned his own property. However, William had been living in a severe state of self-neglect in a home that was in a derelict state, was described as uninhabitable with no source of heating and there were extremely concerning levels of hoarding. The Multi-Agency Case Audit recommended that a briefing focusing on self-neglect be produced which would cover some of the common myths around self-neglect and learning from the case.

Self Neglect Briefing - Learning from Multi Agency Case Audit William

Learning Brief 

Sharing the right information, at the right time, with the right people, is fundamental to good practice in safeguarding adults but has been highlighted as a difficult area of practice. Read our briefing for key messages on information sharing, reasons why information should be shared, and the 7 golden rules for information sharing. 

Wigan Safeguarding Adults Board have pulled together a helpful briefing on the topic of consent when it comes to sharing information and referring to safeguarding. They have given us permission to put this on our website. The leaflet covers consent, overriding refusal to give consent, and considering risk. 

Information Sharing - SASPB Briefing

Safeguarding adults: sharing information - SCIE

Consent Briefing

We have a dedicated page for professionals with lots of information and guidance in relation to Domestic Abuse. This includes Mental Capacity and Coercive Control Best Practice Guide and Dementia and Domestic Abuse Briefing for Professionals.

Information on Domestic Abuse for Professionals.