Telford and Wrekin Safeguarding Partnership, Shropshire Partners in Care and Shropshire Safeguarding Community Partnership are presenting a series of webinars, events, and web resources to mark National Safeguarding Adults Week in November 2023.
Safeguarding Adults Week is a time for organisations to come together to raise awareness of important safeguarding issues. The Ann Craft Trust have themed the week around ‘Safeguarding Yourself and Others’ and the following free live events hope to raise awareness of these themes.
It is hoped the week will enable more organisations and individuals to feel confident in recognising signs of abuse and neglect, and the recording and reporting of safeguarding concerns.
Calendar of Events
Monday 20th November
What’s My Role in Safeguarding Adults?
Safeguarding is Everybody’s Business – delivered by Karen Littleford (Shropshire Partners in Care)
Time: 10:00am – 11:30am Platform: Zoom
Webinar Outline: This webinar will consider why safeguarding really is our role.
Book a place: Shropshire Partners in Care Members, non-members email dwarman@spic.co.uk
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Domestic Abuse Focus Lunch and Learn Seminar – delivered by Steve Clark (West Mercia Police) and Paul Cooper (ICB):
Time: 12.00pm -1.30pm Platform: Teams
Book a place: email partnerships@telford.gov.uk
Learning Objectives: The session will cover the following topics:
- Different forms of domestic abuse
- Warning flags to look out for
- The role of the DARO
- MARAC process
- The role of a DHR’s
- Information on Clare’s Law (DVDS)
Tuesday 21st November
Let’s Start Talking – Taking The Lead on Safeguarding
Human Rights and Adult Safeguarding Seminar - Delivered by Dr Laura Pritchard-Jones, Senior Lecturer in Law, Director of Taught Postgraduate Programmes, School of Law and Programme Director, MA Safeguarding Adults: Law, Policy, and Practice
Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm Platform: Zoom
Webinar outline: To consider in more detail the law around human rights, including some myth-busting about the Human Rights Act itself! The webinar will also consider how the law applies in situations where there are concerns about abuse and neglect of adults, and what a rights-based approach to adult safeguarding might look like.
Book a place: Shropshire Partners in Care Members, non-members email dwarman@spic.co.uk
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Challenges and opportunities in systems leadership: Transitional safeguarding an effective response to complex problems?
In this interview, Dez Holmes, Director of Research in Practice, talks about the way the current system often responds to young people's needs in siloed and fragmented ways, and how this needs to change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKGncSP5kLQ
The Advocacy Project (2022) A safer route into adulthood: introducing transitional safeguarding.
Speaker Dez Holmes talks about how we - as professionals and as communities - can protect young people from abuse and neglect as they move from childhood into adulthood. Introduction by Cllr Ketan Sheth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qnP_vsaZhs
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Wednesday 22nd November
Who Cares For The Carers? Secondary and Vicarious Trauma
Awareness session around support available for carers, delivered by Laura Thorogood (Telford and Wrekin CVS)
Time: 12.00 – 1.30pm Platform: MS Teams
Book a place: email partnerships@telford.gov.uk
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Cyber & Fraud Protect “There’s A Cyber Criminal Out There for Everyone” – delivered by PC Rebecca Smith and DC William Sneddon
Time: 9:30am-11:00am Platform: Zoom
Webinar Outline: To develop a better understanding of cyber-crime and the work of the Cyber Crime Unit.
Book a place: Shropshire Partners in Care Members, non-members email dwarman@spic.co.uk
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Scams – red flags – Delivered by Ben Deacon – Public Protection Officer (Scams), Shropshire Council.
Time: 2:30pm – 4:00pm Platform: Zoom
Webinar outline: To recognise the signs of a scam and what to do if you spot/suspect the person you support is being scammed.
Book a place: Shropshire Partners in Care Members, non-members email dwarman@spic.co.uk
Thursday 23rd November
*** All day drop in event at Telford Town Centre (9am – 5pm) ***
Safeguarding experts on hand to answer questions and raise awareness around domestic abuse, hoarding, self-neglect along with many other concerns.
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Care to Smile Programme Webinar - delivered by Jill Allbutt, Oral Health Improvement Service Lead and Tom Seager, Clinical Director BDS MFDS RCS Edin Dip Cons Sed Cert Med Ed Dip SCD RCS Edin, Community Dental Services, Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
Time: 11:00am-12:15pm Platform: Teams
Book a place: Shropshire Partners in Care Members, non-members email dwarman@spic.co.uk
Webinar Outline: To raise awareness of issues around the impact of poor oral health and the Care to Smile programme for care and nursing homes that runs in Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin, Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent. As neglect and acts of omission are prevalent in section 42 enquiries this is an opportunity for attendees to reflect on whether oral health is an overlooked and misunderstood area of neglect.
Resources - Care Quality Commission Smiling matters: Oral health in care homes - progress report 2023 here and NICE Oral health for adults in care homes guideline here.
Friday 24th November
Listen, Learn, Lead – Co-Production With Experts by Experience – delivered by Katie Rae and the Making it Real Board
Time: 11.30-12.30 Platform: Teams
Outline: Our Making It Real Board is made up of people who use adult services or who are interested in the development of Adult Social Care (ASC) in Telford and Wrekin. As 'experts by experience' the board is uniquely placed to ensure that council leaders are kept in touch with the day to day realities for people who use services and their carers. The session will be delivered by Katie Rae from the Making it Real Board and will cover the following areas: What is co-production? Why does it matter? How can you get involved?
Book a place: email partnerships@telford.gov.uk
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Thematic analysis of Safeguarding Adults Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews - Delivered by Debbie Foss, PhD Candidate, School of Law, Keele University.
Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm Platform: Zoom
Outline: The webinar will consider the role of the Mental Health Act 1983 in safeguarding adults at risk: a thematic analysis of Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SAR’s). The second part of the webinar will address learning from Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHR’ s) where the victim has died by suicide. Debbie has recently undertaken a thematic review of SARs commissioned in England and Adult Practice Reviews (APRs) commissioned in Wales where the MHA 1983 was a central aspect to the review.
Book a place: Shropshire Partners in Care Members, non-members email dwarman@spic.co.uk
