Audit-specific guidance and standards
Source guidance for safeguarding children and adults.
Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023)
Statutory multi-agency guidance for child safeguarding in England.
HM Government
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Care Act 2014 — Adult Safeguarding (statutory guidance)
Chapter 14: safeguarding adults with care and support needs.
Department of Health & Social Care
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NICE NG76 — Child abuse and neglect
Recognising, assessing and responding to child abuse and neglect.
NICE
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Intercollegiate Safeguarding Competency Frameworks
Roles and competencies for healthcare staff working with children, young people and adults at risk.
RCN / RCPCH / RCGP
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Mental Capacity Act 2005 — Code of Practice
Capacity assessment, best-interests decision-making and DoLS.
Ministry of Justice
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Making Safeguarding Personal
Person-centred approach to adult safeguarding.
LGA / ADASS
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NHS Safeguarding App
Rapid-access safeguarding contacts and guidance.
NHS England
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Prevent duty guidance
Statutory duty to have due regard to preventing people being drawn into terrorism.
Home Office
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Domestic Abuse Act 2021
Statutory definition and duties around domestic abuse.
Home Office
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Local trust references
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Local trust safeguarding children policy
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Local trust safeguarding adults policy
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Local MCA / DoLS policy
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Local information sharing / Caldicott protocol
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Local safeguarding referral pathway (MASH / Adult Safeguarding)
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Local domestic abuse / MARAC pathway
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Local exploitation / modern slavery pathway
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Local safeguarding supervision policy
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Recommended Lazomis QI Resources
Published Lazomis QI guidance to support this audit.
Learning from Incidents: A Guide to Effective Incident Reporting and Analysis
Patient Safety
Guide
Safeguarding concerns turn on risk recognition, escalation, referral, information sharing and learning from delayed or missed action.
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Designing Safer Clinical Processes: A Guide for Healthcare Teams
Patient Safety
Guide
Reliable documentation depends on safe processes for recording concerns, consent and capacity, referral and follow-up.
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How Clinical Audit Enhances Clinical Governance
Clinical Governance
How-to article
Safeguarding documentation is governance-sensitive: policy compliance, interagency communication and organisational assurance.
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PDSA Cycles: A Practical Guide to Testing Change in Healthcare
Quality Improvement
Guide
Turn audit findings into tested changes: documentation prompts, referral checklists, handover and escalation workflows.
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Tool categories
Website tags — for tool-library navigation.
Primary
Safeguarding
Patient Safety
Clinical Governance
Documentation
Adult Safeguarding
Children & Young People
Secondary
Emergency Medicine
Paediatrics
Mental Health
Acute Medicine
Community Services
Maternity
Nursing
Social Work
Quality Improvement
Mental Capacity Act