HIQA and the Mental Health Commission (MHC) are developing joint national adult safeguarding standards for health and social care services.
The standards will provide a framework for best practice in safeguarding adults in health and social care services. The scope of the national standards will include all health and social care services.
An Advisory Group, representing a wide range of stakeholders from health and social care services, met in mid March. The Standards team presented the findings to the group from national and international best practice in the area, mapping it against the national standards framework.
These findings will form the basis of a background document which will be launched at the ‘Adult Safeguarding: Promoting Rights, Health and Wellbeing seminar’ on 9 May 2018, in Dublin. The aim of the seminar is to raise awareness among practitioners, policy makers and people using services about what safeguarding is and why it is important.
Delegates will hear about recent developments in adult safeguarding from speakers from Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. The seminar will also provide an opportunity for those working in health and social care services to meet, engage with and learn from each other, and to contribute their views on the issues raised.