Safeguarding Adults Week 2023
20th – 24th November 2023
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: Safeguarding Yourself and Others, these are open to all health and social care practitioners and volunteers within the West of Berkshire.
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 2023 – 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
This page provide details of the webinars on offer and joining instructions throughout the week. We hope to add more sessions to the programme, please regularly check this website, for the most up to date events schedule. 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.
Monday 20th November
What’s My Role in Safeguarding Adults?
We want to encourage individuals and organisations from a diverse range of sectors to come together and consider ‘what’s my role in safeguarding adults?’ Safeguarding adults is relevant and important in all sectors. Safeguarding is the responsibility of all staff, volunteers and individuals within an organisation or the wider community.
Monday 20th November
10am-11am
Who’s looking after the people looking after the people?
Ian Braid M.Sc. M.CIMSPA,
Ann Craft Trust
This hour long workshop will bring together people from a range of sectors to discuss and share good practice in looking after those who have a responsibility to look after others.
Register here limited spaces
Monday 20th November
10am – 11:15am
Safeguarding Vs safeguarding
Rebecca Berry, Adult Safeguarding Quality & Development Manager
Wokingham Borough Council/West Berkshire SAB
This webinar will explore 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.
Free Microsoft Teams Webinar, pre registration required click here
Monday 20th November
1-2pm
Executive Function : understanding fluctuating mental capacity and how best to care with these issues
Professor Keith Brown, Independent Chair, West Berkshire SAB
West Berkshire SAB
Professor Keith Brown will 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 . He will then lead a discussion and share his personal story of caring for his own mother.
Free Microsoft Teams Webinar, pre registration required click here
Tuesday 21st November
Let’s Start Talking
Taking The Lead on Safeguarding in Your Organisation
Creating a safer organisational culture is vital in promoting the wellbeing of staff, volunteers and the people they support. It is important that organisations create environments where everyone is confident their concerns are welcomed, listened to and addressed appropriately.
Organisations should encourage continuous learning and reflection and lead with positive actions and values to ensure people have the confidence to challenge and instigate change.
On this day, we want to encourage people to reflect on the culture in their organisation. What is working well in terms of promoting the wellbeing of people within the organisation. Or, what could be improved?
Tuesday 21st November
10am-12 noon
Trauma informed approach to Safeguarding
“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
Mike and Danny, will ask you to challenge your professional practice by sharing their personal experience. Today was POOOOOWER !!!!! We just met with #SchoolNurses from #Rochdale. – YouTube
Free Microsoft Teams Webinar, pre registration required click here.
This is a first opportunity to attend this session, this will cover the same information as the session on Thursday 23rd November.
Tuesday 21st November
10am-11am
Let’s Start Talking – Taking The Lead on Safer Cultures in Your Organisation
Laura Thorpe, Safeguarding Adults Manager at the Ann Craft Trust
Ann Craft Trust
In this workshop, Laura Thorpe, Safeguarding Adults Manager at the Ann Craft Trust, will explain what we mean by safer cultures. Laura will set-out what makes a safer organisational culture and why it’s important for organisations to encourage continuous learning and reflection.
Register here limited spaces
Wednesday 22nd November
Who Cares For The Carers? Secondary and Vicarious Trauma
Anyone who supports others or engages empathetically with people that may have experienced trauma as part of their day-to-day role can experience vicarious trauma as a result. The BMA explains that vicarious trauma can involve being preoccupied with thoughts about those you support outside of work, feeling angry or sad about the situation of people you support, struggling to maintain professional boundaries or trying to avoid listening to people’s experience of trauma.
Cancelled
Wednesday 22nd November
10am-11am
Cancelled
SCAMS
Cancelled
Malcom Philips, Fraud Victim Support Officer, Public Protection Partnership
West Berkshire Council/ West Berkshire SAB
Apologies this session is cancelled.
Using case studies to raise awareness around scams and preventative measures to consider to avoid becoming a victim or to deploy to become a survivor of scams.
Wednesday 22nd November
1pm-1:30pm
The Prevent Duty
Zoe Hanim, Prevent and Channel Lead, Wokingham Borough Council
Wokingham Council/SAB
Raising awareness about the role of professionals in protecting vulnerable people from radicalisation and extremism. Which will include:
- Understanding the origins of Prevent in the advent of global terrorism
- Focussing on safeguarding and early interventions to support vulnerable people
- Understanding types of extremism across the spectrum
- Factors which increase susceptibility to radicalisation
- Case studies – self radicalisation and grooming on-line
- The Prevent Referral process to Channel and bespoke support plans
Free Microsoft Teams Webinar, pre registration required click here.
Thursday 23rd November
Adopting a Trauma Informed approach to Safeguarding Adults
Trauma-informed practice encourages practitioners that may be supporting people within their role, to consider how trauma exposure can impact an individual’s ability to function and achieve mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual wellbeing. Trauma-informed practice encourages us to think about what we need to know to be able to respond to people affected by trauma, understanding the person and what is important to them.
Thursday 23rd November
10am-12 noon
Trauma informed approach to Safeguarding
“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
Mike and Danny, will ask you to challenge your professional practice by sharing their personal experience. Today was POOOOOWER !!!!! We just met with #SchoolNurses from #Rochdale. – YouTube
Free Microsoft Teams Webinar, pre registration required click here.
This is a second opportunity to attend this session, this will cover the same information as the session on Tuesday 21st November.
Friday 24th November
Listen, Learn, Lead – Co-Production With Experts by Experience
Co-production is usually where service providers and users work together to reach a collective outcome. The idea behind co-production is that those who are affected or use a service, are best placed to help design it.
On this day, we want to continue conversations about what is means to be involved in co-production and facilitate discussions about good practice. Implementing co-production can be challenging and complex. We want to encourage people to share their experiences of being involved in co-production and reflect on what has worked well and what could be improved in the future.
Friday 24th November
10am-11:30am
Learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews
Jane Hitching, Principal Social Worker, Reading Borough Council
Reading Borough Council/West Berkshire SAB
Will summarise 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.
Free Microsoft Teams Webinar, pre registration required click here.
Friday 24th November
1pm-2:30pm
Domestic Abuse and Adult Safeguarding
Rebecca Berry (Wokingham Adult Social Care)
Wokingham Borough Council/West Berkshire SAB
Examining 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 will include examples of domestic abuse in case study form, discussion of Domestic Homicide Reviews and voices of survivors.
Free Microsoft Teams Webinar, pre registration required click here.
Friday 24th November
2:45-4pm
Ask the Experts Session (adult safeguarding and domestic abuse)
Karen Evans (Wokingham Domestic Abuse Coordinator)
Wokingham Borough Council/West Berkshire SAB
This session will be an informal session for practitioners to ask any questions which will help to increase their understanding of domestic abuse and / or adult care and support needs where domestic abuse is taking place. We will also have in the session experts from the domestic abuse services.
Pre-attendance: Please come with your questions
Free Microsoft Teams Webinar, pre registration required click here
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