This toolkit is designed to provide advice for any professionals who may encounter adults who are expressing or intending to act upon suicidal thoughts. The guidance covers how to manage these conversations and respond appropriately in a variety of settings, including in the workplace, over the phone, working from home and during home visits.

Professionals should note that service areas/organisations may have their own protocols for handling these calls and should ensure they are familiar with these.

Accurate and timely safeguarding referrals are a  key part of keeping adults with care and support needs, safe. This toolkit aims to provide professionals with information on what to include in an adult safeguarding referral in order to support effective and timely practice across all agencies.

It can be easy to forget our own wellbeing when supporting others, whether that is within our day-to-day work or when caring for loved ones. However, practicing self-care is an integral part of maintaining our own wellbeing so that we can continue to provide support for those we look after.

This toolkit is intended to share knowledge about secondary trauma and the tools to help maintain our own wellbeing when safeguarding others.

Below is the Well-being Action Plan which you can also find the link to within the toolkit.

Wellbeing Action Plan