- A&E (Accident & Emergency)
- Abuse
- ADASS (Association of Directors of Adult Social Services)
- Adult at Risk
- Adult at Risk Plan
- Advocacy
- Best Interests
- Care Act 2014
- Care or Case Management
- Care setting/services
- Carefrontational Questioning
- Carer
- Case conference
- CCG (Clinical Commissioning Group)
- Clinical governance
- Consent
- County Lines
- CPA (Care Programme Approach)
- CPS (Crown Prosecution Service)
- CQC (Care Quality Commission)
- Cultural Competence
- DASH
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
- DH (Department of Health)
- DHR (Domestic Homicide Review)
- Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS)
- Disguised Compliance.
- Domestic Abuse
- DPA (Data Protection Act 1998)
- Duty of Candour
- DVCV (A)A) (Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims (Amendment) Act 2012)
- DVCVA (Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004)
- DVPO (Domestic Violence Protection Order)
- DWP (Department for Work and Pensions)
- Emergency duty officer
- Emergency duty team
- Evidence
- FGM (Female Genital Mutilation)
- FGMA (Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003)
- GP (General Practitioner)
- Harm
- Hate Crime
- Healthwatch
- HMIPs (Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons)
- HRA (Human Rights Act 2000)
- HSCA (Health and Social Care Act 2012)
- HSE (Health and Safety Executive)
- Human Trafficking
- IDVA (Independent Domestic Violence Adviser)
- Ill treatment
- IMCA (Independent Mental Capacity Advocate)
- Inherent jurisdiction of the High Court
- Intermediary
- Investigation or assessment
- IPCC (The Independent Police Complaints Commission)
- Large Scale Enquiries (LSE)
- Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS)
- Lived Experience / Voice of the Adult at Risk
- Local Authority Contact Centre
- Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP)
- MAPPA (Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements)
- MARAC (Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference)
- MARM (Multi-Agency Risk Management)
- Mate Crime
- MCA (Mental Capacity Act 2005)
- Mental capacity
- Mental Health Team
- MHA (Mental Health Act 2007)
- Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
- National Health Service (NHS)
- OASys (Offender Assessment System)
- OPG (Office of the Public Guardian)
- PACE (Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984)
- PALS (Patient Advice and Liaison Service)
- Personal budget (PB)
- PIDA (Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998)
- PiPOT (Person in a Position of Trust)
- Police
- Potential Source of Risk
- PPO (Police, Prison and Probation Ombudsman)
- PPU (Public Protection Unit)
- Professional Body
- Professional Curiosity
- Public interest
- Respectful Uncertainty
- SAB (Safeguarding Adults Board)
- Safe Lives (formerly Co-ordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse, CAADA)
- Safeguarding Adults
- Safeguarding Concern
- Safeguarding Enquiry
- SAR (Safeguarding Adults Review)
- Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC)
- SI or SIRI (Serious Incident Requiring Investigation)
- SOCA (Serious Organised Crime Agency)
- Social Care
- Special Measures
- Think The Unthinkable
- Vital interest
- Wellbeing
- Whistleblowing
- Wilful neglect
- YJCEA (Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999)
