Covers King’s Lynn town and West Norfolk. Links King's Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council and also part of Breckland (Thetford area). 

Co chairs: Peter and a vacancy.

WLSAP does have regular attendance from a variety of organisations, such as:

• Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk
• West Norfolk Carers
• Norfolk Community Health & Care
• operational partnership team (police)
• MIND
• Library service
• Daisy programme
• YMCA
• adult social care
• Queen Elizabeth Hospital

2024

In a meeting that discussed prevention themes from SARs:

How do you access and implement learning?

• Shared in team meetings as lessons learned – e.g. Cawston Park learning in residential settings. Similar to post incident analysis in nursing
• Quality meetings and governance structures; asking individuals for reflections

What helps you do this?

• Keep momentum – SARs can deal with some very big issues / themes, difficult to integrate not day to day practice
• Communication strategies – ask what would be expected in organisations
• Simplify the learning

What do you think the barriers are?

• Lack of national direction / legislation
• Too much information / learning to be done – by some of the busiest people – don’t have enough time
• How to communicate across your organisation – and then know how to follow up to determine how it might have changed practice – Quality Improvement cycles
• SARs can happen after an organisation has already done their own internal enquiry and learning, so SAR recommendations can feel ‘after the fact’

2023

In 2023, the September topic of neglect and self-neglect considered where poor health or social care becomes neglectful. This led to information being shared about Healthwatch, across all the LSAPs.

We also talked about role of alcohol dependency in determining capacity, especially executive capacity; the potential impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs); and where carer breakdown can become abuse, however unintentional.

2022

In 2022 we had really great discussions helping us to achieve a shared understanding of a range of safeguarding issues, with modern slavery identified as a particular interest, and this interest fed into our July topic of Adult Exploitation. Many group members shared the videos we watched on the meeting with their teams and colleagues, and also promoted the child and adult exploitation e-learning with great feedback. 

The group identified a particular interest in modern slavery, County Lines, and have taken back to their agencies strong promotion of professional curiosity, particularly linked to learning for the Cawston Park SAR last year and DHR Daisy in this year.