Welcome to the Framework, Procedures and Practice (FPP) website for Lambeth Adult Social Care.
This page provides a summary of how to use this site and its main features.
Contents
November 2025
| Chapter | Summary |
| No Recourse to Public Funds | A link was added to No Recourse to Public Funds: A Toolkit for Social Workers in England . |
August 2025
A new side bar has been added to the site. When you are in a webpage that has a contents list, you will notice a blue tab on the right hand side. You can click on this at anytime when you are in the chapter and it will bring up the contents list. This means you can jump around sections of the page, without having to return to the top to see the contents. It is particularly useful in longer chapters, such as End of Life Care.
July 2025
| Chapter | Summary |
| Amended chapters | |
| Assessing and Managing Risk | This chapter has been rewritten and links updated. It was previously called Risk Assessments. |
| Complaints and Appeals | Lambeth Complaints Procedure and Appeals Guidance have been added. |
| Direct Payments | Lambeth Direct Payments Guidance has been added. |
| Domestic Abuse | A new Section 2.1, Dementia and domestic abuse has been added, to highlight issues when domestic abuse and dementia are both present in a relationship. A link to a practitioner toolkit and safety planning tool developed by Aberystwyth University have also been added. |
| End of Life Care | A new Section 8.1, Support for carers has been added. |
| Equipment Provision Guidance | Lambeth Equipment Provision Guidance has been added. |
| Hospital and Community Case Transfer Protocol | Lambeth Hospital and Community Case Transfer Protocol has been added. |
| Occupational Therapy Framework | Lambeth Occupational Therapy Framework has been added. |
| Providers No Reply In and Out of Hours Procedures | Lambeth Providers No Reply In and Out of Hours Procedures has been added. |
| Risk Rating Framework Guidance | Lambeth Risk Rating Framework Guidance has been added. |
| Sensory Impairment Services Guidance | Lambeth Sensory Impairment Services Guidance has been added. |
| Technology Enabled Care Strategy Review | Lambeth Technology Enabled Care Strategy Review has been added. |
| Working with Adults Living with Dementia | A new Section 9, Dementia and Domestic Abuse has been added, to highlight issues when domestic abuse and dementia are both present in a relationship. A link to a practitioner toolkit and safety planning tool developed by Aberystwyth University have also been added. |
| New chapters | |
| Working with Adults with Impaired Executive Function | This is a new practice guidance chapter about working with people who have impaired executive function and how it is important to consider it when carrying out mental capacity assessments. |
| Working with Adults with Learning Disabilities | This is a new practice guidance chapter, outlining what learning disabilities are, how people may be affected and some of the main safeguarding issues they may face. |
February 2025
| New chapters | Summary |
| Data Protection | This chapter outlines the UK legislation in relation to data protection and provides practice guidance. |
| End of Life Care | This chapter provides information for staff to ensure adults receive the best possible care to enable them to die peacefully and with dignity, and the needs of their carers, other family members and friends are also met during such a difficult and often distressing time. |
| Independent Mental Capacity Advocate Service | This chapter outlines the role of the Independent Mental Capacity Advocate Service and advocates, which were introduced under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. |
| Information and Advice | This chapter outlines the importance of adults with care and support needs, and their families, having access good quality information and advice for them to take control of and make well informed choices about their care and support and how they will fund it. Under the Care Act 2014, the local authority has a legal duty to establish and maintain such a service for people in its area. |
| Moving and Handling | This chapter outlines the key issues for staff and the adults with whom they are working in relation to moving and handling practice. |
| No Reply | This chapter relates to staff who visit an adult who does not reply and also covers actions to take when a no reply is reported by another organisation to Lambeth Adult Social Care. Please note: Lambeth has a local operational internal procedure for staff to follow. |
| Providing Culturally Appropriate Care | Culturally appropriate care (also called ‘culturally competent care’) is about understanding and being sensitive to people’s cultural identity or heritage, especially when arranging or providing care and support. This chapter provides practice guidance in relation to the provision of culturally appropriate care. |
| Risk Assessments | This chapter outlines the key issues to consider when undertaking risk assessments, and the roles and responsibilities of staff in those processes. |
| The Resident Journey | This chapter outlines some of the key issues for adults and their families, who use Adult Social Care services, including the different steps of their journey. |
| Working with Adults Living with Frailty | This chapter outlines the key issues for people living with frailty, including how it can impact on their mental and physical health and wellbeing. |
January 2025
| Chapter | Summary |
| Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards | Section 4, Restrictions and Restraint has been updated to reference the LGA and ADASS publication Promoting less restrictive practice: reducing restrictions tool for practitioners and reinforces the importance of ensuring that least restrictive practice principles are being followed. A new Section 5.3 contains information on the ADASS DoLS Priority Tool, which can be used by local authorities to help screen requests to authorise a deprivation of liberty. |
| Kindness, Respect and Compassion | This chapter outlines the importance of treating adults and their families with kindness, compassion and respect in adult social care. |
| Self-Neglect and Hoarding | This chapter has been updated throughout, to refresh links and text. |
Search
On the home screen, type in the word or phrase you are looking for in the ‘Search’ facility and press ‘Enter’. It will bring up a list of all the chapters where it appears. Click on the one you want. The word / phrase will remain highlighted in the chapter.
To make sure the search results more accurately reflect what you are looking for, you can add inverted commas (also known as speech marks) to the word or term you are looking for, for example “safeguarding” or “adult safeguarding”.
If you want to search for specific text within a chapter or a pdf document, you can also press ‘Ctrl’ and ‘f’ together. A box will appear in the top right of your screen. Type in the word / phrase you want to find and press ‘Enter’. The number of times it appears in the chapter will be displayed next to your word. Use the up and down arrows next to it to find all the references.
This website has been designed to be used online. If you print a chapter, for example to take to a meeting, please note it is valid for 72 hours only from the date it was printed. There may be occasions when it is updated urgently as a result of a Safeguarding Adults Review or inspection recommendation, so it is important to be sure that you are using the most recent copy. This is why we recommend that if you have to print a chapter, you no longer refer to it after that time.
Please remember that the website can be also accessed on smartphones and tablets (see Using the AFPP Website on Smartphones and Tablets).
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