The safeguarding standards tool has been co-produced with providers and other key stakeholders to offer care providers a resource to support best practice in safeguarding adults.

The document is divided into key sections as summarised below and is formatted to enable use of the whole document or sections individually for review or as a resource tool.

For each of the core safeguarding standards, there is:

• • An overarching standard statement.
  • Benchmarks of expected best practice statements.
  • Resource section to provide onwards signposting. This includes other regional resources as relevant in support of providers who work across regional boundaries in the South-East.