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Safeguarding Adults Week

20-24 November 2023

This year the focus from the Ann Craft Trust will be on Safeguarding Yourself and Others

"There’s a strong link between safeguarding and mental and physical wellbeing. If someone’s wellbeing is suffering, they may consider certain actions that put them at risk. 

We would like to encourage you to think about what wellbeing means to you, and for the people you support. We have selected themes for each day of the week, and hope these will guide you to enhance your knowledge and understanding of safeguarding adults within your organisation and communities."

You can learn more about the themes for the week from Ann Craft Trust by following the link above, and below are some links to information, guidance and other material from NSAB!


Monday - What's My Role in Safeguarding Adults?

As a Safeguarding Adults Board and busy Business Team we have a wide remit in safeguarding, you can read a bit more about our roles here:

Who we are

What we do

On Monday afternoon, our Board manager Walter Lloyd-Smith is talking to Kenny Gibson, Deputy Director of Safeguarding at NHS England in a virtual session 


Tuesday - Taking The Lead on Safeguarding in Your Organisation

Creating safer organisational culture is something we can all work towards - keep up to date with best practice by using our practice guidance.

If you want to know more about organisational abuse, have a look at our dedicated page here.

Are you confident knowing what to report and how? We have lots of supporting information on our Raising a Concern page.

Do you want to know more about what happens after you report your concern - see our 'End to End' process graphic, print off a copy for your workplace!


Wednesday - Who Cares For the Carers? Vicarious and Secondary Trauma

We have done a lot of work highlighting the needs of carers, have a look at our Carers and safeguarding section.

 

Thursday - Adopting a Trauma-Informed Approach to Safeguarding Adults

This year we also created a 7 minute briefing on trauma informed approaches - have a quick read!

 

Friday - Listen, Learn, Lead: Co-Production With Experts By Experience

For those of you who follow us on twitter / X you may have seen that we have just published updated easy read material - a safeguarding adults factsheet and leaflet - our colleagues and experts by experience at Opening Doors helped with this, and are also designing us a poster too, so have a look at our refreshed material.

 


For 2022 National Safeguarding Adults Week, the NSAB self-neglect & hoarding subgroup held three 30 minute virtual sessions on that very subject.  We were joined by colleagues from a wide range of organisations.  If you missed the events and want to find out more, we have produced three 7 minute briefings - one for each session.