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- Abuse
- Adult at risk
- Adult Care
- Adult experiencing, or at risk of abuse or neglect
- Adult safeguarding
- Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF)
- Advance decision
- Advocacy
- Alert
- Appropriate adult
- Approved Mental Health Professional
- Arden and GEM Commissioning Support Unit (Arden and GEM)
- Assessment notice
- Assistive technology
- Attorney (also known as a donee with lasting power of attorney)
- Authorised person
- Best interests
- Better Care Fund
- Brokerage
- Business failure
- Care costs
- Care Programme Approach
- Carer
- Case management
- Charge Advice Sheet
- Circle of support
- Clinical Commissioning Group
- Co-production
- Commissioning
- Commissioning Council
- Commissioning Intelligence
- Consent
- Continuity of care
- County council’s intranet site
- County Manager
- Court Appointed Deputy
- Court of Protection
- Data quality
- Deferred payments
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Direct payment
- Director of Adult Social Services
- Directorate
- Discharge notice
- Discriminatory abuse
- Diversity
- Domestic violence
- Duty to enquire
- Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan
- Empowering
- Enduring Power of Attorney
- Enquiry (Safeguarding Enquiry)
- Exception reports
- Executive
- Expected cost
- Financial information and advice
- Financial or material abuse
- Health and Wellbeing Boards
- Independent Advocate
- Independent financial information or advice
- Independent living
- Independent Mental Capacity Advocate
- Individual Service Fund
- Informed risks
- Inherent jurisdiction
- Intermediate care
- Joint Strategic Needs Assessments
- Key decisions
- Lasting Power of Attorney for Health and Welfare
- Lasting Power of Attorney for Property and Finance
- Likely need
- Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP)
- Market Position Statement
- Mate crime
- Mental capacity
- Minor equipment
- Modern slavery
- National Referral Mechanism
- Neglect
- Net Assessable Income (NAI)
- NHS Continuing Healthcare
- Nominated person
- Officer
- Ordinary residence
- Organisational abuse
- Outcome (care and support)
- Parent carer
- Person centred
- Personal budget
- Personalisation
- Physical abuse
- Policy
- Practitioner
- Preventative measures
- Procedural guidance
- Procurement
- Protocol
- Psychological abuse
- Quality assurance
- Reablement
- Regulated activity
- Regulated financial advice
- Regulatory standards
- Relevant day
- Relevant partners
- Safeguarding
- Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB)
- Safeguarding Adults Review
- Safeguarding conference
- Safeguarding plan
- Self-directed support
- Self-neglect
- Sexual abuse
- Significant benefit
- Strategy
- Strength based assessment
- Telecare
- Temporary duty
- Top ups
- Touchstone
- Transition assessment
- Trusted assessor
- Unmet need
- Vulnerable adult
- Wellbeing
