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

Meet Wednesday mornings every other month

We continue to have vacancies for a WLSAP chair and co chair, so Walter and Becky have been covering but we really do need someone from the local area to cover these valuable roles. WLSAP does have regular attendance from a variety of organisations, such as:

• Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk
• West Norfolk Carers
• NCH&C
• Operation partnership team (police)
• MIND
• Library service
• Daisy programme
• YMCA
• Adult social care
• Queen Elizabeth Hospital

In 2022 we have 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. 

In 2021 we talked a lot about language and communication, linked to helping us to have a common understanding. WLSAP created the wordcloud you can see in the image below. Each member wrote down words they associate with safeguarding, which were then made into the image. The larger the word, the more times it was used. Any surprises there?

Word art

In 2022, 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 leaning for the Cawston Park SAR last year and DHR Daisy this year.