Safeguarding adults in care homes

You can now review and comment on this draft guideline.

The consultation closes on Thursday, 1^st October 2020 at 5pm.

How to comment:

1. Register your organisation or comment as an individual

If you’re commenting for an organisation, your organisation needs to be registered as a stakeholder.

Not eligible? Contact the stakeholder organisation that most closely represents your interests and pass your comments to them.

We can accept comments from individuals. These will be considered, but you won’t get a formal response and they won’t be posted on the NICE website. Wherever possible we encourage you to submit your comments through a registered stakeholder organisation.

2. Read the consultation documents

Documents to comment on:

• Draft guideline - Just the recommendations

Evidence reviews

• Evidence review A - Indicators of abuse and neglect
• Evidence review B - Barriers and indicators
• Evidence review C - Tools to support recognition and reporting
• Evidence review D - Responding to and managing safeguarding concerns
• Evidence review E - Support and information needs
• Evidence review F - Strategic partnership working
• Evidence review G - Multi-agency working
• Evidence review H - Training
• Evidence review I - Embedding learning

Visual summaries

• Visual summary - Indicators of individual abuse and neglect
• Visual summary - Indicators of organisational abuse and neglect

Supplementary documentation

• Guideline appendices - Methods

If you want to review the economic model, please see 5. Economic models below and fill in the confidentiality form.

Other information about the consultation

• Equality impact assessment
• Committee member list and DOI register
• Developing NICE guidelines: how to get involved

3. Add your comments

• You must use this Comments form
• You must declare any links with, or funding from, the tobacco industry

We would like to hear your views on these questions:

1. Which areas will have the biggest impact on practice and be challenging to implement? Please say for whom and why.
2. Would implementation of any of the draft recommendations have significant cost implications?
3. What would help users overcome any challenges? (For example, existing practical resources or national initiatives, or examples of good practice.)
4. The recommendations in this guideline were developed before the coronavirus pandemic. Please tell us if there are any particular issues relating to COVID-19 that we should take into account when finalising the guideline for publication.
5. We would particularly welcome your comments on the visual summaries developed alongside this guideline on individual and organisational indicators of abuse and neglect.

If you share similar views with another organisation, please send a joint response.

Make sure you consider:

• The areas that will have the biggest impact on practice and be challenging to implement
• How to help users overcome challenges

Developing NICE guidelines: how to get involved suggests some other areas to comment on.

4. Email the form to us

Email: SafeguardingAdults@nice.org.uk

Deadline: 5pm on Thursday, 1^st October 2020

5. Economic model

The developer has produced an economic model to support the guideline on Safeguarding adults in care homes. To receive an executable version of this model, please submit a request to with a signed copy of the confidentiality acknowledgement and undertaking form.

We will then send you a link to an executable version of the economic model by email. The deadline for returning your comments is the same as for the guideline consultation: 5pm on Thursday, 1^st October 2020.