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- Abuse
- Adult at Risk
- Adult experiencing, or at risk of abuse or neglect
- Adult Safeguarding
- Adult Safeguarding Lead
- Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF)
- Advance decision
- Advocacy
- Alert
- Appropriate Adult
- Appropriate Individual
- 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 costs
- Care Programme Approach
- Care Setting
- Carer
- Case management
- Circle of support
- Clinical Commissioning Group
- Co-production
- Commissioning
- Community Safety Partnership
- Concern
- Consent
- Continuity of care
- Contracting
- Court of Protection
- Deferred payments
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Deputy (also known as a Court Appointed Deputy)
- Designated Adult Safeguarding Manager (DASM)
- Direct payments
- Discharge notice
- Disclosure and Barring Service
- Discriminatory abuse
- Domestic violence
- Duty to Enquire
- Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan
- 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 financial information or advice
- Independent living
- Independent Mental Capacity Advocate
- Independent Mental Health Advocate
- Independent Sexual Violence Advocate
- Intermediate care
- Joint Strategic Needs Assessments
- Lasting Power of Attorney
- LGBT
- Likely Need
- Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP)
- Market Position Statement
- Mate Crime
- Mental capacity
- Modern slavery
- National Referral Mechanism
- Natural Justice
- Neglect
- NHS Continuing Healthcare
- Nominated person
- Ordinary residence
- Organisational abuse
- Outcomes (Personal)
- Parent carer
- Person / organisation alleged to have caused harm
- Personalisation
- Physical abuse
- Position of Trust
- Preventative measures
- Procurement
- Psychological abuse
- Public Interest
- Rape Examination Advice Counselling (REACH)
- Reablement
- Registered Intermediaries
- Regulated Activity
- Regulated financial advice
- Regulated Provider
- Relevant day
- Relevant partners
- Safeguarding Adult Manager
- Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB)
- Safeguarding Adults Review
- Safeguarding conference
- Safeguarding Plan
- Self-neglect
- Sexual abuse
- Significant Benefit
- So-called honour based abuse
- Telecare
- Temporary duty
- Top ups
- Transition assessment
- Unmet need
- Vital Interest
- Wellbeing
