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.
- Abbreviations
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- Abuse
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- Adult at risk
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- Adult experiencing or at risk of abuse or neglect
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- Adult safeguarding
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- Adult safeguarding lead
- Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF)
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- Adult social care referral
- Advance decision
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- Advocate
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- Appropriate adult
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- Approved Mental Health Professional
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- Approved premises
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- Assistive technology
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- Authorised person
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- Best interests
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- Better Care Fund
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- British Sign Language (BSL)
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- Broker
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- Care and support plan
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- Costs of care
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- Care Programme Approach
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- Care Quality Commission
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- Care setting
- Carer
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- Case management
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- Co-production
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- Commissioning
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- Community Safety Partnership
- Consent
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- Continuing healthcare
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- Continuity of care
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- Contracting
- Court of Protection
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- Cuckooing
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- Data controller
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- deaf
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- Deprivation of liberty
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- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
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- Deputy (also known as a Court Appointed Deputy)
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- Designated Adult Safeguarding Manager (DASM)
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- Direct payments
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- Disability
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- Disclosure and Barring Service
- Discriminatory abuse
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- Diversity
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- Domestic abuse
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- Duty of care
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- Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan
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- Eligibility criteria
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- Emergency Duty Team
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- Enquiry
- Enquiry lead
- Female genital mutilation
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- Financial abuse
- Financial information and advice
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- Financial or material abuse
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- Forced marriage
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- Health and care passport
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- Hoarding disorder
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- Independent advocate
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- Independent Domestic Violence Adviser (IDVA)
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- Independent living
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- Independent Mental Capacity Advocate
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- Independent mental health advocacy
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- Independent Mental Health Advocate
- Independent Sexual Violence Advocate
- Integrated Care Board
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- Intermediate care
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- Lasting Power of Attorney
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- Lead professional
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- Learning disability
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- Liberty Protection Safeguards
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- Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP)
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- Market Position Statement
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- Mate crime
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- Mental capacity
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- Mental Capacity Act
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- Mental health
- Modern slavery
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- Multi-agency risk assessment conference (MARAC)
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- Multi-disciplinary team
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- National Referral Mechanism
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- Neglect
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- NHS complaints advocacy
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- No reply
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- Nominated person
- Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training
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- Ordinary residence
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- Organisational abuse
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- Outcomes (personal)
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- Parent carer
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- Person in a position of trust
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- Person / organisation alleged to have caused harm
- Personal data
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- Personalisation
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- Physical abuse
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- Position of trust
- Preventative services
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- Primary care
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- Procurement
- Promoting Wellbeing
- Provider
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- Psychological abuse
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- Reablement
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- Reasonable adjustment digital flag
- Reasonable adjustments
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- Referral to Adult Social Care
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- Registered intermediaries
- Regulated activity
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- Regulated financial advice
- Regulated Provider
- Relevant person's representative
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- Review of Care and Support Plan
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- Risk assessment
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- Rule 1.2 representative
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- Safeguarding Adult Manager
- Safeguarding adults
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- Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB)
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- Safeguarding Adults Review
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- Safeguarding conference
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- Safeguarding plan
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- Section 117 aftercare
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- Section 42 enquiry
- Self-neglect
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- Sexual abuse
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- Shared Lives Scheme
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- Significant benefit
- So-called honour based abuse
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- Strengths based approach
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- Telecare
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- Terrorism
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- Top ups
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- Transition to Adult Care and Support
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- Transition assessment
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- Trauma informed practice
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- Universal services
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- Unmet need
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- Unpaid carers advocacy
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- Promoting wellbeing
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- Wilful neglect
- Young carer
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