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“Safeguarding Adults Week is fast approaching and I’m busy searching for an ‘Ann Craft green’ suit as part of our ‘Go Green for Safeguarding Adults Week’ initiative. You can read more about this, and everything else you need to support the week, below.
“10 October was World Mental Health Awareness Day. To coincide with this, we officially launched our new wellbeing policy and right to disconnect guidance. The documents set out how staff across the Ann Craft Trust will be supported to manage and improve their wellbeing in a way that is empowering.
“In our busy lives, self-care is vital, and I’d encourage you to think about how you do this yourself, both at home and in the workplace. We know that doing so has a positive impact on both yourself and those your work with and support.
“I hope to see some of you at this year’s Safeguarding Conference on 20 November – dressed in green! – and digitally at our AGM, or at one of the many seminars we’re running throughout Safeguarding Adults Week!”
Stuart Sale
CEO, Ann Craft Trust
Safeguarding Adults Week 2024 is Nearly Here!
Taking place 18 – 22 November, the core theme for the 2024 week is Working in Partnership. We believe that working in partnerships allows us to share our knowledge of safeguarding, learn from others and ultimately create safer cultures.
We’re running some free online events throughout the week. Many of these events are approaching capacity. But if there are any you wish to attend, please get in touch and we’ll see if we can make room.
Finally, we’re running our annual Safeguarding Adults Conference in Nottingham on Wednesday 20 November.
How can you support Safeguarding Adults Week?
We have many free resources that will help you start vital conversations about the week’s themes, both online and offline. Get your free Safeguarding Adults Week Resources here.
Many organisations use Safeguarding Adults Week as an opportunity to launch new resources or initiatives of their own. Others put on events, including coffee mornings and pop-up stands in public places. If you’re planning anything in particular for the week, please let us know so we can help you promote your activity!
Still stuck for ideas? Here are 11 ways you can make the most of this year’s Safeguarding Adults Week.
You can also see how organisations have supported the week in previous years.
Go Green For Safeguarding Adults Week!
We’ve always liked green at The Ann Craft Trust. Our logo is green, our website’s green, and there are prominent greens on all of our resources, training materials, and publications.
A few years ago, The University of Nottingham lit their Trent building in green to support Safeguarding Adults Week. They’ll be doing it again this year!
This year, we’re inviting you to do the same, in any way you can – to go green for Safeguarding Adults Week!
- Wear green clothes throughout the week!
- Paint your face green!
- Make green meals – salad, jelly, or smoothies!
- If you can, light up your own club or organisation premises in green!
Share the pictures with us on social media – tagged with #SafeguardingAdultsWeek – and we’ll give you a boost.
And if anyone asks you – why green? Just tell them that you’re giving people the green light to talk about safeguarding.
Ann Craft Trust AGM & Free Safeguarding Seminar
18 November, Online.
After the AGM, we will be joined by Steve Kiekopf and Tracy Girling from Sense, who will lead a seminar on Understanding Consent and Choice.
Sense worked with Vamos Theatre Company to explore these issues. They ran theatre and role play workshops using gesture, masks, and non-formal communication. You can watch a short video of their work here.
Book your place at the AGM & Free Safeguarding Seminar >>
Evidencing Links Between Cognitive Impairment & Exploitation in England
A Nuffield Foundation research project involving Dr Alison Gardner and professor Rachel Fyson from The University of Nottingham is investigating the links between cognitive impairment and exploitation in England.
Learn more about this project, and its aims
On Thursday 21 November, Dr Alison Gardner will share findings from this project in a free webinar, and discuss new resources that are being developed for people who experience or work with this issue.
Book your place at this webinar >>
Professional Boundaries and Safeguarding Adults
People tend to use the term “professional boundaries” to apply to a range of situations. And it’s true that we need to think about professional boundaries whenever we encounter any situation with a potential power imbalance: Whether you work as a therapist, a coach, in a sport and activity organisation, or in a drama school.
But it’s important to be as specific as possible when thinking about professional boundaries, and to strike the right balance between professional boundaries, and healthy professional curiosity.
Read our essential introduction to professional boundaries >>>
Working in Partnership to Fight County Lines
Law enforcement officials know that fighting County Lines is not a straightforward process. It’s not simply a case of making a few arrests. It’s only through working in partnership that we can make effective interventions and offer the necessary support.
Read our introduction to how effective partnerships can help fight County Lines >>
News & Resources Roundup
Would you like something featured in a future Roundup? Whether it’s a new resource, a job vacancy, some research findings, or something else entirely, get in touch to tell us more.
- Using theatre to raise awareness of county lines issue. Theatre group’s ‘sporty exploration’ of how modern county lines drug gangs exploit people.
- New measures set out to combat domestic abuse. The cross-government initiative will involve embedding domestic violence specialists in 999 call centres.
- Government cuts £115m from adult social care staff training funding. Reduction means cuts to social work apprenticeships and that far fewer care staff than planned will be able to gain baseline qualifications.
- Coercive and controlling behaviour. Advice on how to identify coercive and controlling behaviour, including practice tips on how to assist if you spot the signs.
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