Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP)
Making Safeguarding Personal or MSP aims to develop an outcomes focus to safeguarding work, and a range of responses to support people to improve or resolve their circumstances. It is about engaging with people about the outcomes they want at the beginning and middle of working with them, and then ascertaining the extent to which those outcomes were realised at the end.
MSP seeks to achieve:
- A personalised approach that enables safeguarding to be done with, not to, people
- Practice that focuses on achieving meaningful improvement to people's circumstances rather than just on 'investigation' and 'conclusion'
- An approach that utilises social work skills rather than just 'putting people through a process'
- An approach that enables practitioners, families, teams and SABs to know what difference has been made
Making Safeguarding Personal toolkit
The practice toolkit handbook guides you through the best approach and effective application of safeguarding with a range of helpful tools and practice based case examples.
https://www.local.gov.uk/msp-toolkit
Making Safeguarding Personal toolkit
Practice Handbook
December 2019
Making Safeguarding Personal: For Safeguarding Adults Boards
Making Safeguarding Personal: For Safeguarding Adults Boards
'Myths and realities' about Making Safeguarding personal (PDF, 140 Kb)This briefing has been developed to address misconceptions and a superficial understanding about Making Safeguarding Personal, and to caution those who interpret this approach simplistically. It supports and promotes relationship and strength based approaches in practice. It acknowledges the complexity of people’s lives and challenges for practitioners to enable people (with their representatives or advocates if they lack mental capacity) to keep themselves safe and safeguarded, and to achieve resolution and recovery in their lives.