This section provides a locally agreed list of definitions and terms that appear throughout the manual. Where a word is highlighted in a chapter, hover over the link and the explanation will appear in a box next to the word.
- Abuse
- ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers)
- ADASS (Association of Directors of Adult Social Services)
- Adult
- Adult Review
- Advocacy
- Alerting
- Alerting manager
- AMHP (Approved Mental Health Practitioner)
- Appropriate Adult
- Capacity
- Care management
- Carer
- CCG (Clinical Commissioning Group)
- Clinical governance
- Community Care
- Consent
- CPA (Care Programme Approach)
- CPS (Crown Prosecution Service)
- CQC (Care Quality Commission)
- DA (Domestic abuse)
- DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service)
- DHR (Domestic Homicide Review)
- Disclosure
- DoH (Department of Health)
- DoL (Deprivation of Liberty)
- DoLS (Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards)
- DPA (Data Protection Act 1998)
- Duty of Care
- DVCV(A)A) (Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims (Amendment) Act 2012) Act
- DVCVA (Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004)
- DWP (Department for Work and Pensions)
- EDT Emergency Duty Team
- Emergency Department
- FGM (female genital mutilation)
- FGMA (Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003)
- GP (General Practitioner)
- Healthwatch
- HMIPs (Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons)
- 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)
- Intermediary
- Investigation
- IPCC (The Independent Police Complaints Commission)
- LPA (Lasting Power of Attorney)
- LPT (Leicester Partnership Trust)
- MAPPA (Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements)
- MARAC (Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference)
- MCA (Mental Capacity Act 2005)
- MHA (Mental Health Act 1983)
- National Referral Mechanism
- NCA (National Crime Agency)
- NHS (National Health Service)
- OASys (Offender Assessment System)
- OPG (Office of the Public Guardian)
- PACE (Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984)
- PALS (Patient Advice and Liaison Service)
- Perpetrator/ Alleged Perpetrator
- Personal Budget (PB)
- PIDA (Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998)
- Police
- PPO (Prison and Probation Ombudsman)
- PPUs (Public Protection Units)
- Protection Plan
- Protection Plan Review
- Provider
- Public interest
- QIPP (quality, innovation, productivity and prevention)
- RCP (Royal College of Psychiatrists)
- Referral
- Risk Assessment
- SAB (Safeguarding Adults Board)
- Safeguarding Adults
- Safeguarding conference
- Significant Harm
- SIRI (Serious Incident Requiring Investigation)
- Staff
- Strategy discussion / meeting
- SVGA (Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act)
- UHL (University Hospitals of Leicester UHL)
- Volunteer
- Whistle blowing
- Wilful neglect
- YJCEA (Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act)
