Windsor and Maidenhead review

The Community Safety Partnership should assess the process of ‘Carers Assessments’ within agencies providing such a service.

Front line practitioners completing DASH or DOM5 risk assessments should also provide an assessment based upon professional judgement alongside the visible high risk. TVP should complete a review of their DOM5 reports to ensure that suitable levels of professional curiosity are demonstrated when completing these records. Assurance should also be sought that staff are trained in providing such professional judgement.

All Community Safety Partnership agencies should ensure that on-going training packages include the subjects of domestic abuse between parents and adult children and Professional Curiosity

The Community Safety Partnership should reassure itself that suitable audit processes are in place to ensure that all staff from Review Panel agencies should receive training on relevant areas of legislation to support them when dealing with similar circumstances.

Agencies to share all relevant information regarding anti-social behaviour and domestic abuse, on a case by case basis, through an information pathway agreed with the Community Safety Partnership.

The Community Safety Partnership should seek to confirm that record keeping within Adult Social Care is accurate and relevant and reassure itself that standards of accuracy and detail are continually maintained.

The Community Safety Partnership should seek reassurance that service users are receiving the necessary support and that front-line practitioners are suitably trained in two subject areas of sexualised behaviour: i) The need for parents and family members to understand their role in providing boundaries and guidance to support those with ASC in understanding what appropriate behaviour is and isn’t. ii) The processes to be followed when service users demonstrate acts of sexualised behaviour which involve breaches of criminal law, including the Human Rights Act.

The Strategic Adult Safeguarding Coordinator should be alerted each time an agency or service user enters the Multi-Agency Risk Management Framework process to ensure they can provide an active and reactive role.

Assessment of both carer and service user must include consideration of the wellbeing of both people. Services are to ensure that part of the yearly carers assessment includes a discussion with the carer about their present situation and an assessment of risks posed to the carer from caring with someone known to have a history of challenging behaviours

For services to recognise that a safeguarding concern for the carer can be raised, if reports are received that they are experiencing intentional or unintentional harm as a result of the support they provide to a person with support needs.

Professional Curiosity Training to be offered to all Adult Social care staff. Professional Curiosity is a capacity and communication skill to explore and understand what is happening within a family rather than making assumptions or accepting things on face value.

Increase awareness of domestic abuse and coercive control amongst social care professionals outside of the usual male/female intimate relationship paradigm.

In-House Domestic Abuse Training to be provided to front-line staff.

Anti-Social Behaviour Training to be provided to front-line staff to ensure all notes are recorded effectively and correspondence store appropriately.

Customer profiling to be enhanced, ensuring that household make up is current.

Professionals need to be aware of their responsibility to dependants when working with an adult who is a carer. This pathway is to be developed.

Further support on identification of potential domestic abuse concerns for CRHTT and police triage to be explored such as reflective supervision sessions.

Improve compliance with the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and best interests’ assessment. Consent to or withdrawal of treatment for CTPLD

Continue to embed the ‘Think Family’ approach in safeguarding training.

With the introduction of the new Domestic Abuse Risk Assessment online recording function the police strategic unit are to review: o How adults at risk are identified and risk assessed and o How their details are recorded and shared, when they live in households, where there has been domestic abuse.

The Domestic Abuse Executive Group should work with MATAC to continue to raise awareness of its function amongst frontline practitioners, review panel membership and ensure that all relevant agencies are represented.

All agencies report progress on their single agency IMR recommendations to the Community Safety Partnership.