Safeguarding Adults Week
18th – 22nd November 2024
The West of Berkshire Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board, are supporting the Ann Craft Trust Safeguarding Adults Week. Each day of the week our partners are hosting a wide variety of free webinars to cover the themes on: Working in Partnership open to all health and social care practitioners and volunteers within the West of Berkshire.
The following provides details of the webinars on offer and joining instructions. Where possible to webinars will be recorded and available online at a later date, we are not in a position at this time which sessions will be recorded.
The Ann Craft Trust have a range of resources available to those that wish to host their own safeguarding awareness events during this week: Safeguarding Adults Week 2024 – Links, Resources, and More – Ann Craft Trust, do let the partnership know what your organisations are doing to promote adult safeguarding during this week by contacting Lynne.Mason@Reading.gov.uk
In addition to the webinars we will be delivering key messages for health and social care practitioners and volunteer and the public. If you would like to receive these messages direct please contact Lynne.Mason@Reading.gov.uk who will add you to the mailing list.
Monday 18th November
Look, Listen, Ask – Developing Professional Curiosity
Professional curiosity is where a practitioner proactively recognises and asks questions to try to understand what is happening within a particular institution, family or for an individual, rather than making assumptions or taking a single source of information and accepting it at face value. To achieve safer cultures and communities, practitioners and members of the community should be professionally curious. This involves looking, listening, asking direct questions and reflecting on ALL of the information received. We need to be recognising signs that harm could be occurring, asking questions to learn more about what is happening and talking to others within and outside of our organisational context, where necessary, to follow-up concerns.
Monday 18th November, 11:15-11:45am
Prevent – Online safety for Vulnerable Adults
Zoe Hanim – Prevent and Channel Lead, Wokingham Borough Council
West of Berkshire Safeguarding Adults Board
Understanding and identifying the on-line risks for vulnerable adults and what steps you can take to respond to these risks and support a vulnerable person to keep safe on-line.
Details for registration can be found here
Monday 18th November, 1-1:45pm
Understanding Intelligence
DS Ash Hunka, Thames Valley Police
West of Berkshire Safeguarding Adults Board
Join us for a virtual session to learn more about police intelligence, covering:
- The importance of intelligence in safeguarding.
- Understanding the difference between intelligence and a crime report.
- How to submit intelligence to the police.
- The session will be 45 minutes including time for questions.
Details for registration can be found here
Monday 18th November, 1:30-2:45pm
Ann Craft Trust AGM & Safeguarding Seminar – Sense on Understanding Consent and Choice
Ann Craft Trust
Tuesday 19th November
Working in partnership: How to work effectively with the people you support
‘Making Safeguarding Personal’. ‘Person-centred practice’. ‘Co-production’. Each of these approaches focuses on working in partnership with people who use services. On this day, we will explore how we can embed these approaches successfully in our service design and everyday practices. We are encouraging organisations to share challenges and successes about how to effectively partner with the people they support.
Tuesday 19th November, 10am-11am
Camphill Village Trust & The Voice of Lived Experience
Ann Craft Trust CEO Stuart Sale, Ann Craft Trust
The seminar will cover:
- How listening to peoples stories can bring focus and authenticity to safeguarding.
- An exploration of how we can involve people to have influence and impact at all levels.
- The role of reviews and annual surveys in embedding co-production and best practice.
- A panel discussion led by Ann Craft Trust CEO Stuart Sale, with an opportunity to ask your own questions.
Click here to book your free place.
Tuesday 19th November, 1:30pm-3pm
An Approach to applying reasonable adjustments for Autism into practice
Simon Tarrant, Autism and Crisis Care Pathway Development Manager, BOB ICB
West of Berkshire Safeguarding Adults Board
Simon will present a model that has been developed and used within BOB Integrated Care system for applying reasonable adjustments for autism. This is a practical model that can be applied into your approach for undertaking Mental Capacity Assessments.
Details for registration can be found here
Wednesday 20th November
Establishing Professional Boundaries
Developing good quality relationships are important across all organisations and communities. Professional boundaries help us to understand what good quality relationships look like both within and outside of work. Thinking about professional boundaries encourages us to establish clear foundations about the nature of working relationships from the outset. On this day, we are encouraging people to think about what appropriate professional boundaries look like in your sector, organisation or community. What power imbalances exist that could impact professional working relationships? What could be the signs that professional boundaries are being blurred and how should you respond if you are concerned? Professional boundaries can also go beyond our relationships with colleagues or service users and include boundaries between our work and home life. We will also be exploring what good practice looks like in transitioning from work to home life.
Wednesday 20th November, 10am-12noon
Domestic Abuse Risk Assessment and the MARAC Process
Laura McKie (Named Professional Adult Safeguarding Berkshire Healthcare)
Louise Pegg (Deputy Designate Nurse for Safeguarding Adults)
and Karen Evans (Domestic Abuse Coordinator Wokingham Borough Council)
West of Berkshire Safeguarding Adults Board
- To understand how to approach domestic abuse cases in terms of assessing risk.
- To have an overview of the DASH risk assessment form
- To understand where DASH and MARAC fit within a multi-agency response to high-risk victim-survivors
- To understand how to make a MARAC referral
- To learn more about support services for domestic abuse victim-survivors
Details for registration can be found here
Thursday 21st November
Recognising exploitation: The ladder of criminality
Criminal exploitation is the deliberate abuse of power and control over another person. It is taking advantage of another person or situation for criminal purposes or personal gain. Criminal exploitation could also include other forms of harm and abuse such as modern slavery, sexual exploitation or cuckooing. On this day, we want to encourage people to think about how they would work together to recognise the signs of criminal exploitation and how to respond. Specifically, we will be focusing on how practitioners can spot the signs and respond to people with learning disabilities who are subjected to criminal exploitation.
Thursday 21st November 2024, 10am-12noon
The journey into criminality of women of how they are treated in the Criminal Justice System
Helen Morris – National Probation Delivery Unit, South
West of Berkshire Safeguarding Adults Board
Helen will explore during the session:
- Women in the criminal justice system
- Exploitation
- The picture in the West of Berkshire
- Discuss a live case study
- Trauma informed approach
- Q&A session
Details for registration can be found here
Thursday 21st November 2024, 1pm-3pm
Mental Capacity Act – the Inherent Jurisdiction and undue influence
Edward Bartlett, Mental Capacity Act Lead Professional Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
West of Berkshire Safeguarding Adults Board
This session will discuss the assessment of mental capacity where there is undue influence and when getting advice about use of the inherent jurisdiction of the high court might need to be considered.
Details for registration can be found here
Friday 22nd November
Professional and Organisational Learning
To effectively safeguard adults and establish safer cultures, it is important for organisations and individuals to be engaged in a process of continual learning and development. On this day, we want to encourage organisations and individuals to reflect on their practice. What have been the successes and the challenges in safeguarding adults? What work do we still have to do and how can we continue to extend our learning?
Friday 22nd November 2024, 11:30am-12:30
Learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews 2nd National Analysis
Professor Michael Preston-Shoot
West of Berkshire Safeguarding Adults Board
Professor Michael Preston-Shoot, Emeritus Professor of Social Work, University of Bedfordshire, Convenor National Network for SAB Chairs, Independent Chair – Greenwich Safeguarding Adults Board, Independent Chair – Somerset Safeguarding Adults Board and Independent Adult Safeguarding Consultant. Will present the learning and hold a Q&A session on the Second national analysis of Safeguarding Adult Reviews: April 2019 – March 2023. To get the most out of this webinar you are strongly encouraged to read the report/executive summary prior to the webinar.
Details for registration can be found here
2023
In November 2023, the West of Berkshire Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board supported the Ann Craft Trust Safeguarding Adults Week. Each day of the week our partners hosted a wide variety of free webinars to cover the themes on: Safeguarding Yourself and Others, these were are open to all health and social care practitioners and volunteers within the West of Berkshire.
The partnership will also provided learning resources to support awareness on these key themes. This page provides links to the learning resources and recording of the webinars where available.
Rebecca Berry, Adult Safeguarding Quality & Development Manager, Wokingham Borough Council.
Delivered a webinar on Monday 20th November which explored the word ‘safeguarding’ and how it can be interpreted in different ways and this can create some confusion for professionals, when deciding what course of action to take when they have encountered a person who needs support. ‘Safeguarding’ can mean two things; a formal safeguarding response under s42 of the Care Act, or a general response to keep someone safe and to ensure their needs are met.
Professor Keith Brown, Independent Chair, West Berkshire SAB delivered a webinar to show a new animated podcast which is a free to download learning tool for those working with or caring for people who executive function is deteriorating or fluctuating, a huge issue for those in the early stages of dementia .
On Tuesday 21st and Thursday 23rd November, Mike from Lads Like Us delivered a webinar.
Being Trauma informed isn’t a tick box exercise, it’s a way of being. Used with professional curiosity, you will save lives. It saved ours” #AskWhy
The partnership created the following practice notes:
Jane Hitching, Principal Social Worker, Reading Borough Council, on Friday 24th November 23 summerised learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews: Safeguarding Adults Reviews | West of Berkshire Safeguarding Adults Board (sabberkshirewest.co.uk)
With a focus on: Mental Capacity Act, Professional Curiosity, Multi-Agency working, Risk Assessments, Powers of Section 11 of the care act and how this overrides consent, emerging themes.
Rebecca Berry, Adult Safeguarding Quality & Development Manager, Wokingham Borough Council, on Friday 24th November delivered a webinar on Domestic Abuse and Adult Safeguarding. Which Examined links between the Care Act 2014 statutory duties and Domestic Abuse; both within intimate partner and family relationships. Challenging unconscious bias about the characteristics of survivors of Domestic Abuse. Exploring how “Care and Support needs” impact upon survivors’ experience of Domestic Abuse. How to recognise, record and respond to domestic abuse when working with adults at risk. This session includes examples of domestic abuse in case study form, discussion of Domestic Homicide Reviews and voices of survivors.
During the week a presentation was delivered to the Learning Disabilities Partnership Board on Keeping ourselves safe and how safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. Click here for a copy of that presentation.
2022
In November 2022, the West of Berkshire Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board supported the Ann Craft Trust Safeguarding Adults Week. Each day of the week our partners hosted a wide variety of free webinars to cover the themes on: Responding to Contemporary Safeguarding Challenges, these were open to all health and social care practitioners and volunteers within the West of Berkshire. The partnership will also provided learning resources to support awareness on these key themes. This page provides links to the learning resources and recording of the webinars where available.
Research indicates that lockdown has increased the number of people at risk of exploitation. This is largely due to economic concerns and increased isolation. We are raising awareness about how adults at risk could be exploited through county lines activity. To promote learning on how to spot the signs that someone is at risk of exploitation, and how to respond effectively.
The term Self-Neglect covers a wide range of behaviour neglecting to care for one’s personal hygiene, health or surroundings. There has been rise in self-neglect cases over the last two years, particularly for older people. On this day you can explore how you can spot the signs someone is at risk of self-neglect.
The Self-Neglect Learning Brief.
Click here for a recording of the webinar Self-Neglect – Why do people self-neglect?, presented by Suzy Braye. The webinar provides information and guidance regarding the psychology of self-neglect and how to work with this.
Click here for a recording of the webinar on Hoarding, presented by Jo Cooke from Hoarding Disorders UK. The webinar provides guidance in order to work effectively with individuals who exhibit hoarding behaviours.
Click here for a recording of the webinar on Self-Neglect and Fire Risk, presented by Neil Whitemann from the Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service. The webinar provides information and guidance of how to manage fire risk when working with individuals who may be at risk of fire at their homes due to hoarding behaviours.
Promoting safer cultures is all about how organisations and individuals can take steps to minimise harm occurring in the first instance. It’s also about embedding appropriate policies and procedures. In this way, people will know what to do if they have a concern to report. In addition, the organisation will have a plan in place for acting on concerns.
Elder abuse is a single or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust, which causes harm or distress to an older person.
The World Health Organisation has found that rates of elder abuse have increased since the pandemic. Around one in six people aged 60 years and older experience some form of abuse in a community setting. Also, rates of elder abuse are high in institutions such as nursing homes and long-term care facilities.
A recording of the webinar on Coercive Control and Links with Fraud in Families, presented by Professor Keith Brown, Independent Chair West of Berkshire Safeguarding Adults Board.
Click here for a recording of the webinar on Dewis Choice, presented by Rebecca Zerk. Dewis Choice is the first longitudinal prospective study globally to examine the decision-making processes of older victim-survivors as they seek help and access to justice. Dewis Choice has highlighted the diverse ‘lived experiences’ of 131 women and men aged 60 years and over who have experienced abuse from intimate partners and/or adult family members.
Click here for a recording of the webinar on Elder Abuse – Domestic Violence and older adults, presented by Isobel from Hourglass. The webinar informs the work which Hourglass are doing in working with older adults who are experiencing domestic abuse.
Click here for a recording about Predatory Marriage, a powerful session from the personal experience of a daughter whose mother was the victim of predatory marriage.
Technology can help to keep people safe. But abusers can also use technology to cause harm.
Domestic Abuse in a Tech Society
Click here for the recording of the webinar on Arson Awareness, from the Royal Berkshire Fire Rescue Service. Cases of arson linked to domestic abuse are on the increase, this session will improve the knowledge of staff regarding this issue.