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Safeguarding adults from abuse and neglect

• Everybody has the right to live their life free from violence, fear and abuse.
• Everybody has the right to live in safety. 

You have these rights especially if you are disabled, ill or an older person. A vulnerable adult is someone who is or may be in need of community care services by reason of mental or other disability, age or illness; and who is or may be unable to take care of him or herself, or unable to protect him or herself against significant harm or exploitation.

Abuse is when someone does or says something to you which harms you and makes you upset and scared. You may be afraid and do not know how to get the help you need. Abuse can be a single act or continue over months or even years. It can be accidental or deliberate. Just because there is no injury doesn’t mean there is no
abuse.

Under ‘No Secrets’ (Department of Health/Home Office 2000) local authorities have the responsibility to coordinate a multi agency approach to safeguarding vulnerable adults.

In South Gloucestershire there is a multi agency partnership called the Safeguarding Adults Board(SAB) which oversees the Safeguarding Adults Policy and Procedures and the multi agency Workforce Development Plan.

The Safeguarding Adults Policy and Procedures aim to safeguard all adults resident in South Gloucestershire aged 18 or over who are or may be eligible for community care services and whose independence and well-being would be at risk if they did not receive appropriate health and social care support.

This includes: adults with physical, sensory or learning disabilities and those with mental health problems. It also includes carers, family and friends who provide personal assistance and care on an unpaid basis.

A direct link to the Department of Health Guidance can be found in the 'other websites' box on this page.

Our role in Winterbourne View and the changes we will make to protect people from abuse

Our role in Winterbourne View and the changes we will make to protect people from abuse

7 August 2012

Our role and that of five other organisations involved in the events at Winterbourne View have been drawn together in the serious case review published today.

The serious case review looks at our role and that of Castlebeck Ltd, NHS South Gloucestershire, NHS South West, South Gloucestershire Council and Avon and Somerset Police during the events at Winterbourne View.

You can find the serious case review on South Gloucestershire Council's website.

After the events of Winterbourne View, we carried out a full review of our systems and processes that showed failings in the way we involved whistleblowers and processed the information they gave us.

We have already made significant changes to various areas of our work to ensure that we are better placed to respond to concerns of whistleblowers in order to protect vulnerable people.

Other changes relate to the way we:

• follow-up on action plans when services aren’t meeting government standards.
• build new ways to work with local safeguarding teams.
• develop the way we analyse safeguarding alerts so we can spot trends in care.

Our role in Winterbourne View: Internal management review

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Dame Jo Williams, CQC chair, said,  “Winterbourne View was a watershed moment for CQC.  We did not respond as we should have and we have offered our apologies to the patients and their families.

“We have been honest about our limitations at the time and willing to learn from them.  We carried out an urgent and thorough internal review to strengthen our processes and to ensure that we are better placed to play our part in protecting people in vulnerable care situations.”

Chief Executive David Behan said, “There is much for all the organisations involved with Winterbourne View to consider…I will ensure that the Care Quality Commission responds fully to all the recommendations for CQC. We will continue to work with other organisations to improve communications and sharing of information to ensure we all protect those who are most vulnerable.”

most expensive locations to rent in the country

Bath has been named one of the - but property experts in the city say demand is as high as ever.

Specialist letting agents’ insurer Endsleigh this week rated Bath as the fifth priciest town or city for tenants in the UK.

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   Bath view

According to the insurance firm the average cost of renting a property in the city is £963 a month - £257 more than the national average.

The report shows the average monthly rent across the UK rose for the third year running in 2011 to £706 – compared with £688 in 2010 and £663 in 2009.

Bath was placed fifth behind Slough, Guildford, Watford and London, where the monthly average was £1,247.63.

Grant Stevens, general manager of letting services at Endsleigh, said the results proved that despite tough economic times, the lettings market remained buoyant.

He said: “Rents in London have been rising for a long time so it is no great surprise that there is finally a cooling in prices. However, nationally, year-on-year, the picture is one of a very buoyant rental market and, with the overall rise in-keeping with inflation, it won’t unduly affect the pockets of either Bath’s landlords, who are enjoying good yields, or renters, who are able to access a whole range of properties.”

Ben Tilling, partner at Bath Property Shop, said there was strong supply and demand in Bath which had created a successful rental market for the city.

He said: “The city is a one of a kind in terms of rental.

“There are a lot of quality properties in Bath and they are the ones that always rent.

“There is real value for money for tenants in terms of quality, and tenants have got selective about what they want.

“Bath has a very strong rental market but it’s a vicious circle because people can’t afford to buy in Bath so they rent.

“We get a lot of families from London who relocate from London because of the very good schools.

“We also have good links with London and Bristol, and a lot of people commute to Bristol because Bath offers a better quality of life.”

Gloucestershire gets new rapid response water rescue centre

Gloucestershire gets new rapid response water rescue centre

Gloucestershire gets new rapid response water rescue centre

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A new water rescue centre in Gloucestershire will enable rescue teams to attend incidents anywhere in the county within 30 minutes, Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service (GFRS) said.

The centre at Moreton Fire Station "completes the provision of strategically-placed water rescue teams in Gloucestershire".

The need for such a facility was highlighted in the service's Integrated Risk Management Plan (IRMP) and DEFRA provided £56,000 funding for it.

The IRMP advised an improved water rescue response was necessary in the event of further major flooding in the area.

A similar centre was set up at Tewkesbury Fire Station in 2011.

Deputy chief fire officer Geoff Sallis said: "Since the floods in 2007, we have significantly increased the number of swift water rescue technicians located around the county."

Firefighters have completed specialist water and mud rescue training and now have technical rescue equipment designed to perform rescues from water.

The water response team is also trained to support the large animal rescue team and to work alongside the rescue boats and the GFRS hovercraft.

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The Dobunni were one of the Celtic tribes living in the British Isles prior to the Roman invasion of Britain. There are seven known references to the tribe in Roman histories and inscriptions.^[1][2] The latter part of the name possibly derives from Bune, a cup or vessel. The name seems to have had a similar meaning to the later tribal name Hwicce; both being related to the recognisable cult of a Romano-British goddess.^[3]
Various historians and archaeologists have examined the Dobunni, including Stephen J. Yeates in his book The Tribe of Witches (2008).

Contents [hide] 1 Territory 2 Iron Age period 3 Roman period 4 Sub-Roman period 5 Coinage 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Territory

The tribe lived in the part of southwestern Britain that today broadly coincides with the English counties of North Somerset, Bristol, and Gloucestershire; although at times their territory may have extended into parts of what are now Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and Warwickshire.^[4][5] Their capital acquired the Roman name of Corinium Dobunnorum, which is today known as Cirencester.
Their Territory was bordered by the Cornovii and Corieltauvi to the North; the Catuvellauni to the East; the Atrebates and Belgae to the South; and the Silures and Ordovices to the West. Some of these suggestions are, however, speculative.
There is evidence for a cult associated with the tribe in the Romano-British period; the evidence being coterminous with the tribe's territory. Sculpture has been found at: Gloucester, Cirencester, Nettleton, Bath, Wellow, and Aldsworth.^[6]

[edit] Iron Age period

The Dobunni were a large group of farmers and craftsmen, living in small villages concentrated in fertile valleys. A major study of the Iron Age material was carried out by Tom Moore.^[7]
Remnants of several fortified camps, otherwise known as hillforts, thought to have been occupied by the Dobunni can be seen in the Bristol area at Maes Knoll, Clifton Down, Burwalls and Stokeleigh - all overlooking the Avon Gorge - and at Kingsweston Down and Blaise Castle.
In the late Iron Age period, southern Britain saw the development of sites generally referred to as oppida (towns). An example of such a site has been recognised for some time at Bagendon, near Cirencester.^[8] It has now been realised that the Bagendon site was not as important as first thought, as other extensive sites are now known to have existed at places such as Salmonsbury.^[9]

[edit] Roman period

Dio Cassius referred to the tribe as "Bodunni", probably a misspelling of the Dobunni. Tributary to the Catuvellauni, they capitulated to the invading Romans when Caratacus and Togodumnus withdrew.^[10]
Unlike the Silures, their neighbours in what later became south east Wales, they were not a warlike people and submitted to the Romans even before they reached their lands. Afterwards they readily adopted the Romano-British lifestyle.
Even though the Dobunni were incorporated into the Roman Empire in AD 43, their territory was probably not formed into Roman political units until AD 96-98. The tribal territory was divided into a civitas centred on Cirencester, and the Colonia at Gloucester. The Colonia was established during the reign of the emperor Nerva (AD 96-98).^[11]
At the beginning of the 4th century, Britain was reorganised into, initially, four and then five provinces. The Dobunnic territory lay in the province of Britannia Prima, as described in an inscription found at the base of a Jupiter column.^[12] The area remained a Roman Civitas until approximately 409.
The Dobunnic territory contained two large towns (Corinium Dobunnorum now Cirencester, and Colonia Nerviana Glevum now Gloucester). Besides this there were numerous smaller towns, and many rich villas.
A study of the religion of the Dobunni has shown that there was a focus on the worship of the natural world It is possible to identify deities associated with the landscape; for example: Cuda, a mother goddess associated with the Cotswold Hills, and its rivers and springs, and Sulis Minerva at Bath. Other cults were defined by social action, such as mining, for example at Lydney Park, and hunting, for example at Pagan's Hill near Chew Stoke.^[13]

[edit] Sub-Roman period

After the collapse of the Roman Provincial Government, the core of this area retained territorial identity until the Battle of Deorham in 577, (now largely regarded as a dubious event ^[14]) when the Saxons made advances as far as the River Severn. These gains were reversed 50 years later when Penda of Mercia fought the West Saxons at the Battle of Cirencester, and the area came under the influence of Mercia as the sub-kingdom of the Hwicce. It has been suggested that the area retained a distinct identity as a Christian sub-kingdom, instead of being simply absorbed into Pagan Mercia, as a reward for an alliance against the West Saxons; and that this is evidence of a cultural continuity between the Dobunni Civitas and the Hwicce Kingdom.^[15]