Below is the contents of the Manchester Adult Social Care Adults Policies, Procedures and Practice (APPP) Portal. It is divided into sections, each with a number of specific chapters. The different sections can be accessed by clicking on the arrow next to ‘Contents’ on the left of the screen. By clicking on the word ‘Contents’, all of the sections and chapters will be displayed.
Overview
General Responsibilities under the Care Act 2014
This section reflects the Care Act 2014 and the Care and Support Statutory Guidance (Department of Health and Social Care). Promoting Wellbeing, Preventing, Delaying or Reducing Needs, Information and Advice and Market Shaping are some of the main areas which underpin the Act.
First Contact and Identifying Needs
Charging and Financial Assessment
Delivering Person Centred Support
4.1 Person Centred Care and Support
- 4.1.1 Personalisation
- 4.1.2 Personal Budgets
- 4.1.3 Direct Payments
- 4.1.4 Direct Payments: Nominated and Authorised Persons
- 4.1.5 Support Planning
- 4.1.6 Review of Support Plans
- 4.1.7 Risk Assessments
- 4.1.8 Independent Advocacy
- 4.1.9 Transition to Adult Care and Support
- 4.1.10 End of Life Care
- 4.1.11 Protecting Property of Adults being Cared for away from Home, including Pets
- 4.1.12 Sight and other Disability Registers
- 4.1.13 Moving and Handling
- 4.1.14 Technology Enabled Care
- 4.1.15 Hospital Discharge and Community Support
4.2 Carers
Safeguarding
This section reflects Chapter 14, Safeguarding, Care and Support Statutory Guidance (Department of Health and Social Care).
- 5.1 Adult Safeguarding
- 5.2 Safeguarding Procedures for Responding in Individual Cases
- 5.3 Safeguarding Adults Partnership
- 5.4 Making Safeguarding Personal
- 5.5 Working with Adults Affected by Child Sexual Exploitation and Organised Sexual Abuse
- 5.6 Self-Neglect
- 5.7 Ill Treatment and Wilful (Deliberate) Neglect
- 5.8 Forced Marriage
- 5.9 Modern Slavery
- 5.10 Domestic Abuse
Mental Capacity and Mental Health
- 6.1 Mental Capacity
- 6.2 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- 6.3 Defining Mental Disorder
- 6.4 Section 117 Aftercare
- 6.5 Interface between the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007)
- 6.6 Statutory Advocacy Service
- 6.7 Best Interests
- 6.8 Advance Care Planning
- 6.9 Mental Health Act 1983
Homelessness and Housing
This section outlines legislation and Manchester services.
See also Manchester City Council Neighbourhood Apartments, Commissioned Services
Integration and Partnership Working
This section reflects the Care and Support Statutory Guidance (Department of Health and Social Care), but also other fundamental issues such as information sharing, user involvement – which is key to the ethos of the Care Act – and staff engagement.
- 8.1 Integration, Cooperation and Partnerships
- 8.2 Information Sharing and Confidentiality
- 8.3 Prisons, Approved Premises and Bail Accommodation
- 8.4 Delegation of Local Authority Functions
- 8.5 Continuing Healthcare (NHS)
- 8.6 Staff Engagement
- 8.7 Involving People who Use Services / Coproduction
- 8.8 Emerging Concerns Protocol
Moving between Areas: Inter-Local Authority and Cross Border Issues
This section reflects the Care and Support Statutory Guidance (Department of Health and Social Care), but also other areas of practice which require liaison between local authorities and partners, or where adults with care and support needs request assistance.
Local Policy
- 10.1 Key Principles in Adult Social Care
- 10.2 Case Recording
- 10.3 Access to Records
- 10.4 Supervision
- 10.5 Audit Cycle
- 10.6 Professional Capabilities Framework for Social Work
- 10.7 Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and Manchester Population Health Plan
- 10.8 Complaints
- 10.9 Missing Persons
- 10.10 Adult Social Care Accessible Information
Practice Guidance
- 11.1 Working with Autistic Adults
- 11.2 Working with People Living with Dementia
- 11.3 Working with People Living with Frailty
- 11.4 Working with People Living in Poverty
- 11.5 Preventing Falls
- 11.6 Whole Family Approach
- 11.7 Social Media: Guidance for Staff
- 11.8 Health and Wellbeing of Staff
- 11.9 Presenting Statements for Court and Working with Legal Services
Appendices
Care and Support Statutory Guidance: Annexes
- Annex A: Choice of Accommodation and Additional Payments
- Annex B: Treatment of Capital
- Annex C: Treatment of Income
- Annex D: Recovery of Debts
- Annex E: Deprivation of Assets
- Annex F: Temporary and Short-Term Residents in Care Homes
- Annex G: The Process for Managing Transfers of Care from Hospital for Patients with Care and Support Needs
- Annex H: Ordinary Residence
- Annex I: Repeals and Revocations