Safeguarding Adults Week 2022 will focus on the theme ‘Responding to Contemporary Safeguarding Challenges’.
Safeguarding Adults Week is a time for organisations to come together to raise awareness of important safeguarding issues. We hope the week will enable more organisations and individuals to feel confident in recognising signs of abuse and neglect and recording and reporting safeguarding concerns.
To achieve this, each day of the week we will focus on a different safeguarding theme to explore how we can respond to contemporary safeguarding challenges.
Safeguarding Adults Week – Themes for 2022
- Monday – Exploitation and County Lines
- Tuesday – Self-neglect
- Wednesday – Creating Safer Organisational Cultures
- Thursday – Elder Abuse
- Friday – Domestic Abuse in Tech-Society
- Saturday & Sunday – Safeguarding in Everyday Life
Learn more about our themes for the week!
Here are some resources and events you can access during Safeguarding Adults week.
Monday 21st November Exploitation and County Lines
The presentation link below has been shared by the Metropolitan Police and partners in Camden & Islington and so references to specific job roles and contact points will not relate to Telford and Shropshire however the content highlights the following learning:
• To develop an understanding of cuckooing and its impact on individuals and communities
• To identify vulnerabilities in relation to cuckooing; both victims and perpetrators
• To know how to respond to concerns of cuckooing
• Develop awareness of relevant legislation and guidance
CLICK HERE to view Exploitation and County Lines presentation
If you have concerns about someone being at risk of cuckooing or county lines please contact your local Safeguarding Team for advice: Telford and Wrekin 01952 385385
Shropshire 0345 678 9044
Tuesday 22nd November -
Self-Neglect seminar – delivered by Adult Safeguarding - Telford and Wrekin Council
Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Platform: MS Teams
To book a place email:- partnerships@telford.gov.uk
One of the key challenges in adult safeguarding is ensuring the wellbeing of adults where risk arises from self-neglect rather than from a third party. The seminar will cover relevant legislation, practice and approaches to self-neglect, ethical dilemmas, and key learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews.
Cygnet Health Care have a free conference covering the following topics:-
• Contemporary Challenges in Safeguarding
• Freedom To Speak Up
• Transitional Safeguarding and Health
• Co-producing Safeguarding, Committing to Safeguarding Together
• Safeguarding in the Independent Health Sector
• Escaping Constant Connection – How Has Technology Facilitated Coercive Control
• Empowerment Vs Protection – Mental Capacity and Safeguarding
This will be a free of charge, CPD accredited event.
CLICK HERE for the Cygnet Annual Safeguarding Conference 2022 - Cygnet Health Care
Wednesday 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.
Creating Safer Organisational Cultures Seminar – delivered by Karen Littleford (SPiC)
Time: 10:00am – 11:30am
Platform: Zoom
To book a place e-mail:- dwarman@spic.co.uk
Learning Objectives:
Having accessed this webinar you will be able to:
• State the key components of creating a safer organisational culture
• Outline organisational practices that contribute to the creation of a safer culture
• Explain the importance of embedding key safeguarding and other principles
• Identify how everyone in an organisation has a role in creating a safer culture
Thursday 24th November
Abuse of Older People Online Seminar - delivered by Caroline Cox, Chair of Hour Glass
Time: 10:00am – 11:30am
Platform: Zoom
CLICK HERE to book a place via Eventbrite
To address the abuse of older people including self-neglect and older people, domestic abuse and older people, with some information about the types of issues coming into Hourglass
Friday 25th November
Predatory Marriage Seminar - delivered by Daphne Franks
Time: 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Platform: Teams
To book a place email:- partnerships@telford.gov.uk to receive your MS Teams link
During the seminar, Daphne will talk about her personal experience of working with agencies in order to understand how it was possible for her mum to marry in secret desperate having Power of Attorney for her, a mechanism to safeguard her.
She describes the lack of ‘professional curiosity’ within the system which ultimately failed to protect her mum from being victim of a marriage she was unaware she was in.