This section provides a locally agreed list of definitions and terms that appear throughout this site. 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
- Abuse
- ADASS (Association of Directors of Adult Social Services)
- Adult
- Adult at risk
- Adult experiencing or at risk of abuse or neglect
- Adult review
- Adult safeguarding
- Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF)
- Advance decision
- Advocacy
- Advocate
- Alerting
- Alerting manager
- AMHP (Approved Mental Health Practitioner)
- Appropriate adult
- Approved Mental Health Professional
- Approved premises
- Assistive technology
- Authorised person
- Best interests
- Better Care Fund
- British Sign Language (BSL)
- Broker
- Care and support
- Care and support plan
- Care management
- Care Programme Approach
- Care Quality Commission
- Carer
- Case management
- CCG (Clinical Commissioning Group)
- Clinical governance
- Co-production
- Commissioning
- Community care
- Consent
- Continuing healthcare
- Continuity of care
- Costs of care
- Court of Protection
- CPA (Care Programme Approach)
- CPS (Crown Prosecution Service)
- CQC (Care Quality Commission)
- Data controller
- DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service)
- deaf
- Deprivation of liberty
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Deputy (also known as a Court Appointed Deputy)
- Designated Adult Safeguarding Manager (DASM)
- DHR (Domestic Homicide Review)
- DHSC (Department of Health and Social Care)
- Direct payments
- Disability
- Disclosure
- Discriminatory abuse
- Diversity
- DoLS (Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards)
- DA (Domestic abuse)
- Domestic abuse
- DPA (Data Protection Act 2018)
- Duty of care
- DVCVA (Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004)
- DVCV(A)A) (Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims (Amendment) Act 2012) Act
- DWP (Department for Work and Pensions)
- EDT Emergency Duty Team
- Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan
- Eligibility criteria
- Eligible needs
- Emergency Department
- Emergency Duty Team
- Female genital mutilation
- FGM (female genital mutilation)
- FGMA (Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003)
- Financial information and advice
- Financial or material abuse
- Forced marriage
- GP (General Practitioner)
- Healthwatch
- HMIPs (Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons)
- Hoarding disorder
- HR (human resources)
- HRA (Human Rights Act 2000)
- HSCA (Health and Social Care Act 2012)
- HSE (Health and Safety Executive)
- IDVA (Independent Domestic Violence Adviser)
- Ill treatment
- IMCA (Independent Mental Capacity Advocate)
- Independent advocate
- Independent Domestic Violence Adviser (IDVA)
- Independent living
- Independent Mental Capacity Advocate
- Independent mental health advocacy
- Integrated Care Board
- Intermediary
- Intermediate care
- Investigation
- IOPC (The Independent Office for Police Conduct)
- Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNAs)
- Lasting Power of Attorney
- Lead professional
- Learning disability
- Liberty Protection Safeguards
- LPA (Lasting Power of Attorney)
- LPT (Leicester Partnership Trust)
- Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP)
- MAPPA (Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements)
- MARAC (Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference)
- Market Position Statement
- Mate crime
- MCA (Mental Capacity Act 2005)
- Mental capacity
- Mental Capacity Act
- Mental health
- MHA (Mental Health Act 1983)
- Modern slavery
- Multi-agency risk assessment conference (MARAC)
- Multi-disciplinary team
- National Referral Mechanism
- NCA (National Crime Agency)
- Neglect
- NHS complaints advocacy
- NHS (National Health Service)
- No reply
- National Police Chiefs Council
- OASys (Offender Assessment System)
- Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training
- OPG (Office of the Public Guardian)
- Ordinary residence
- Organisational abuse
- Outcomes (personal)
- PACE (Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984)
- PALS (Patient Advice and Liaison Service)
- Parent carer
- Perpetrator/ alleged perpetrator
- Person in a position of trust
- Personal budget (PB)
- Personal data
- Personalisation
- Physical abuse
- PIDA (Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998)
- Police
- PPO (Prison and Probation Ombudsman)
- PPU (Public Protection Unit)
- Preventative services
- Primary care
- Promoting wellbeing
- Protection plan
- Provider
- Psychological abuse
- QIPP (quality, innovation, productivity and prevention)
- RCP (Royal College of Psychiatrists)
- Reablement
- Reasonable adjustments
- Referral
- Referral to Adult Social Care
- Regulated activity
- Relevant person's representative
- Protection plan review
- Review of Care and Support Plan
- Risk assessment
- Rule 1.2 representative
- SAB (Safeguarding Adults Board)
- Safeguarding adults
- Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB)
- Safeguarding Adults Review
- Safeguarding conference
- Safeguarding plan
- Section 117 aftercare
- Self-neglect
- Sexual abuse
- Shared Lives Scheme
- Significant harm
- SIRI (Serious Incident Requiring Investigation)
- So-called honour based abuse
- Staff
- Strategy discussion / meeting
- Strengths based approach
- SVGA (Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act)
- Telecare
- Terrorism
- Top ups
- Transition
- Transition assessment
- Transition to Adult Care and Support
- Trauma informed practice
- UHL (University Hospitals of Leicester UHL)
- Universal services
- Unmet need
- Unpaid carers advocacy
- Volunteer
- Whistleblowing
- Wilful neglect
- YJCEA (Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act)
- Young carer
