Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP)

The principles of Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) should apply to work with people who are self-neglecting.

Safeguarding should be person-led, and outcome focused, engaging the adult at risk in a conversation about how best to respond to their safeguarding situation in a way that enhances involvement, choice and control as well as improving quality of life, wellbeing and safety. Most importantly it is about listening and providing the options that support individuals to help themselves.

Whilst every effort must be made to work with adults experiencing abuse within the present legal framework, there will be some occasions on which adults at risk will choose to remain in dangerous situations. It may be that even after careful scrutiny of the legal framework, professionals will conclude that they have no power to gain access to support or intervene positively because the adult at risk refuses all help or wants to terminate contact with the professionals. In these extremely difficult circumstances, professionals will be expected to continue to exercise as much vigilance as possible