Articles

Responding to Deepfake and Impersonation Scams: A Digital Safeguarding Playbook

Impersonation scams and deepfake content are increasing the speed and credibility of technology-enabled harm. This article explains how adult social care providers spot early indicators, support people to verify contact...

Managing Device Use Agreements and Digital Boundaries in Supported Living

Device use is now part of everyday support, but unmanaged access can quickly become a safeguarding risk. This article sets out how supported living providers create clear digital boundaries, apply...

Online Exploitation, Grooming and Coercion Risk in Adult Social Care

Online exploitation and grooming increasingly affect adults with care and support needs. This article explains how providers identify coercion risk, implement proportionate digital safeguards, and evidence effective protection through everyday...

Managing Digital Risk Where Capacity Fluctuates in Adult Social Care

Fluctuating capacity creates complex digital safeguarding challenges for adult social care providers. This article explains how services assess capacity over time, adapt digital safeguards proportionately, and evidence best-interest decision-making without...

When Cyber Incidents Become Safeguarding: A Practical Response Framework

Cyber incidents in adult social care can create direct safeguarding risks when personal data, access controls or care systems are compromised. This article explains how providers identify when a cyber...

Consent, Capacity and Digital Restrictive Practices in Adult Social Care

Digital safeguarding often involves decisions about monitoring, access and restriction. This article explains how adult social care providers apply consent and capacity principles to digital controls, ensure least-restrictive practice, and...

Managing Digital Safeguarding Where Capacity Fluctuates Over Time

Fluctuating capacity creates complex digital safeguarding challenges. This article explains how adult social care providers manage online risk when capacity changes, evidence best-interest decisions, and avoid unnecessary or prolonged digital...

Assessing Online Risk Within Digital Care Planning in Adult Social Care

Digital care planning must address online and technology-enabled risk alongside physical safety. This article explains how adult social care providers assess online risk, embed safeguards into care plans, and evidence...

Responding to Technology-Enabled Safeguarding Incidents: Evidence, Escalation and Operational Workflow

When a digital safeguarding incident occurs, services must act quickly without losing evidence, breaching confidentiality or defaulting to blanket restrictions. This article sets out a practical incident workflow, including thresholds,...

Digital Safeguarding and Technology-Enabled Harm in Adult Social Care: An Operational Framework

Technology-enabled harm is now a routine safeguarding risk for adult social care services. This article sets out an operational framework for identifying, assessing and responding to digital harm, including evidence...

Responding to a Digital Safeguarding Incident: Evidence, Escalation and Learning

When a digital safeguarding incident occurs, providers must respond quickly without losing evidence, breaching confidentiality, or over-restricting the person. This article sets out an operational incident workflow and how to...

Restrictive Practices and the “Least Restrictive” Approach to Digital Safeguarding

Digital safeguarding can drift into blanket restrictions that undermine rights and independence. This article explains how providers apply least restrictive practice to technology controls, document defensible decisions, and evidence safe...

Managing Digital Risk Where Capacity Fluctuates Over Time

Fluctuating capacity creates complex digital safeguarding challenges. This article explains how providers adapt safeguards over time, evidence best-interest decisions, and avoid unnecessary or prolonged digital restrictions.

Online Exploitation, Grooming and Coercion Risks in Adult Social Care

Online exploitation increasingly affects adults with care and support needs. This article explains how providers identify grooming and coercion risks, implement proportionate safeguards, and evidence effective protection in everyday practice.

When Cyber Incidents Become Safeguarding: A Practical Response Framework

Cyber incidents can expose personal data, disrupt care delivery and create direct safeguarding risks. This article explains how adult social care providers respond operationally, report appropriately and evidence learning and...

Consent, Capacity and Digital Restrictive Practices in Adult Social Care

Digital safeguarding often involves decisions about access, monitoring and restriction. This article explains how services apply consent, capacity and least-restrictive practice when managing digital risks, and how they evidence defensible...

Responding to Technology-Enabled Abuse in Adult Social Care

Technology-enabled abuse presents complex safeguarding challenges for adult social care providers. This article explains how services identify abuse, intervene appropriately and evidence safe, proportionate responses.

Managing Digital Safeguarding Risks in Supported Living Services

Supported living services increasingly rely on digital tools that can both enable independence and introduce safeguarding risks. This article explains how providers identify, manage and evidence digital safeguarding within supported...

Assessing Online Risk Within Digital Care Planning

Digital care planning must address online risk as well as physical safety. This article explains how providers integrate digital safeguarding into assessments, reviews and day-to-day care delivery.

Digital Safeguarding in Adult Social Care: Identifying Technology-Enabled Harm

Digital safeguarding now extends beyond physical environments into online platforms, devices and data systems. This article explains how adult social care providers identify, assess and respond to technology-enabled harm within...