This section provides an explanation of definitions and terms that appear throughout the SAB APPP. Where a word is highlighted in a chapter, hover over the link and the explanation will appear in a box next to the word.
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- Abbreviations
- Abuse
- Adult at risk
- Adult experiencing, or at risk of abuse or neglect
- Adult safeguarding
- Adult safeguarding lead
- Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF)
- Adult social care referral
- Advance decision
- Advocacy
- Alert
- Appropriate adult
- Approved Mental Health Professional
- Assessment notice
- Assistive technology
- Attorney (also known as a donee with lasting power of attorney)
- Authorised person
- Best interests
- Better Care Fund
- Broker
- Business failure
- Care and support
- Care and support plan
- Care costs
- Care Programme Approach
- Care Quality Commission
- Care setting
- Carer
- Carer
- Case management
- Circle of support
- Clinical Commissioning Group
- Co-production
- Commissioning
- Community Safety Partnership
- Concern
- Consent
- Continuing healthcare
- Continuity of care
- Contracting
- Court of Protection
- deaf
- Deaf
- Deprivation of liberty
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Deputy (also known as a Court Appointed Deputy)
- Designated Adult Safeguarding Manager (DASM)
- Direct payments
- Disability
- Discharge notice
- Disclosure and Barring Service
- Discriminatory abuse
- Diversity
- Domestic abuse
- Duty of care
- Duty to enquire
- Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan
- Eligibility criteria
- Eligible needs
- Emergency Duty Team
- Enquiry
- Enquiry lead
- Female genital mutilation
- Financial abuse
- Financial information and advice
- Forced marriage
- Health and Wellbeing Boards
- Independent Advocate
- Independent Domestic Violence Advisor
- Independent living
- Independent Mental Capacity Advocate
- Independent Mental Health Advocate
- Independent Sexual Violence Advocate
- Informed consent
- Integrated Care Board
- Integrated Care System
- Intermediate care
- Joint Strategic Needs Assessments
- Lasting Power of Attorney
- Lead professional
- Learning disability
- Liberty Protection Safeguards
- Likely need
- Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP)
- Market Position Statement
- Mate crime
- Mental capacity
- Mental health
- Modern slavery
- Multi-disciplinary team
- National Referral Mechanism
- Natural justice
- Neglect
- NHS Continuing Healthcare
- No reply
- Nominated person
- Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training
- Ordinary residence
- Organisational abuse
- Outcomes (personal)
- Parent carer
- Person / organisation alleged to have caused harm
- Personalisation
- Physical abuse
- Position of trust
- Preventative measures
- Preventative services
- Primary care
- Procurement
- Provider
- Psychological abuse
- Public interest
- Rape Examination Advice Counselling (REACH)
- Reablement
- Reasonable adjustments
- Registered intermediaries
- Regulated activity
- Regulated financial advice
- Regulated Provider
- Relevant partners
- Rights
- Risk assessment
- Safeguarding Adult Manager
- Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB)
- Safeguarding Adults Review
- Safeguarding conference
- Safeguarding plan
- Section 42 enquiry
- Self-neglect
- Sexual abuse
- Shared lives
- Significant benefit
- So-called honour based abuse
- Social worker
- Telecare
- Temporary duty
- Top ups
- Transition
- Transition assessment
- Trauma informed practice
- Universal services
- Unmet need
- Wellbeing
- Wilful neglect
- Young carer