National Safeguarding Adults Week (NSAW) is a time when organisations come together to raise awareness of important safeguarding issues. The campaign is led by Ann Craft Trust and the overarching theme for 2024 is Working in Partnership.
The campaign will take place between 18th to 22nd November 2024.
How can you take part?
- Follow TSAB on Facebook and X @TeeswideSAB
- Attend one of our free webinars
- Complete and share our annual survey
- Sign up to receive our Newsletter
- Sign up to become a Safeguarding Champion
- Print and display TSAB’s campaign poster
- Print and display Safeguarding Posters and Leaflets
- Complete free Safeguarding e-learning
- View current Safeguarding Policies, Procedures and Guidance
- Share the resources listed below.
What can you do to help protect adults at risk of abuse and neglect?
Below you will find information and resources to support with the campaign.
The Ann Craft Trust also have free resources for you to access as well as online sessions that you can attend.
“Professional curiosity is where a practitioner proactively recognises and asks questions to try to understand what is happening within a particular institution, family or for an individual, rather than making assumptions or taking a single source of information and accepting it at face value.
To achieve safer cultures and communities, practitioners and members of the community should be professionally curious. This involves looking, listening, asking direct questions and reflecting on ALL of the information received. We need to be recognising signs that harm could be occurring, asking questions to learn more about what is happening and talking to others within and outside of our organisational context, where necessary, to follow-up concerns.”
On this day you can:
- *NEW LAUNCH* Read and share TSAB’s Professional Curiosity Briefing
- Attend TSAB’s professional curiosity webinar aimed at all professionals, or our dedicated session for managers.
- *NEW LAUNCH* Watch and share TSAB’s What is Safeguarding? BSL video
“‘Making Safeguarding Personal’. ‘Person-centred practice’. ‘Co-production’. Each of these approaches focuses on working in partnership with people who use services.
On this day, we will explore how we can embed these approaches successfully in our service design and everyday practices. We are encouraging organisations to share challenges and successes about how to effectively partner with the people they support.”
Today you can:
- Read and share TSAB’s Making Safeguarding Personal Guidance
- Explore SCIE’s Co-production resources
- Watch and share TSAB’s Safe Place Scheme Video, created with support from members of Independent Voices and Larchfield Community
“Developing good quality relationships are important across all organisations and communities. Professional boundaries help us to understand what good quality relationships look like both within and outside of work. Thinking about professional boundaries encourages us to establish clear foundations about the nature of working relationships from the outset.
On this day, we are encouraging people to think about what appropriate professional boundaries look like in your sector, organisation or community. What power imbalances exist that could impact professional working relationships? What could be the signs that professional boundaries are being blurred and how should you respond if you are concerned?
Professional boundaries can also go beyond our relationships with colleagues or service users and include boundaries between our work and home life. We will also be exploring what good practice looks like in transitioning from work to home life.”
Today you can:
- Read and share information from the Ann Craft Trust on Professional Boundaries and Safeguarding Adults
- Read Community Care’s Top tips on managing professional boundaries in social care.
- Complete free Safeguarding e-learning
- View current Safeguarding Policies, Procedures and Guidance
- Sign up to receive our Newsletter
- Sign up to become a Safeguarding Champion
Criminal exploitation is the deliberate abuse of power and control over another person. It is taking advantage of another person or situation for criminal purposes or personal gain. Criminal exploitation could also include other forms of harm and abuse such as modern slavery, sexual exploitation or cuckooing.
On this day, we want to encourage people to think about how they would work together to recognise the signs of criminal exploitation and how to respond. Specifically, we will be focusing on how practitioners can spot the signs and respond to people with learning disabilities who are subjected to criminal exploitation.
Today you can:
Find our more about TSAB’s Adult Sexual Exploitation Toolkit:
- Adult Sexual Exploitation Practitioners Toolkit
- Adult Sexual Exploitation Risk Screening Tool
- Adult Sexual Exploitation Referral Pathway
- Leaflet: Protecting Adults From Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation Leaflet
Complete some E-Learning:
All e-learning can be accessed for free via our website. Courses linked to exploitation include:
- Adult Sexual Exploitation
- Criminal Exploitation and Country Lines
- Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery
Watch and share TSAB’s animations:
- *NEW LAUNCH* BSL Modern Slavery explained video
- Tricky Friends – developed to help people to understand what good friendships are, when they might be harmful, and how to seek help and support.
Further Resources:
- Read and share TSAB’s County Lines Briefing
- Find out about the Cleveland Victim Care Pathway
Carers Rights Day
Every day, 12,000 people become unpaid carers for a partner, family member or a friend – many of whom don’t see themselves as carers, often unaware of their legal rights and what they’re entitled to in terms of support and benefits. As a carer, knowing your rights empowers you with information about what you’re entitled to.
Today you can:
- Visit TSAB’s Carers webpage
- Share a link to the Carers UK website to support carers to find out more about their rights – https://www.carersuk.org/news-and-campaigns/our-campaigns/carers-rights-day/
- Share TSAB’s poster to raise awareness of carers services in Teesside.
To effectively safeguard adults and establish safer cultures, it is important for organisations and individuals to be engaged in a process of continual learning and development.
On this day, we want to encourage organisations and individuals to reflect on their practice. What have been the successes and the challenges in safeguarding adults? What work do we still have to do and how can we continue to extend our learning?
There are a variety of free resources available on the TSAB website to support with Professional and Organisational Learning.
Today you can:
- Refresh your knowledge on TSAB’s Policies, Procedures and Guidance
- Learn from the findings from our Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs)
- Complete some E-Learning
- Sign up to attend a training session
- Complete a training workbook
- Print and display our leaflets/ posters
- Become a Safeguarding Champion and/or sign-up to receive our newsletter
Today TSAB also relaunch their Self-Neglect Policy and Guidance, you can:
Webinars – Bookings have now closed.
Monday 18th November
10:30- 12:00pm How to enable a professionally curious workforce (for managers only) – (hosted by TSAB)
1:30pm – 3:00pm Professional curiosity – What does it really mean and how to be curious in your work? – (hosted by TSAB)
Tuesday 19th November
11:00am – 12:30pm Autism and Suicidality: Evidence and Best Practice (hosted by TSAB)
Wednesday 20th November
2:00pm – 2:45pm Building Resilience Against Fraud – Navigating Financial Abuse & Scams (hosted by TSAB, available to the North East Region)
Thursday 21st November
2:00pm – 3:00pm The role of Cleveland Police Complex Exploitation Team and Cuckooing – what to look out for.
Workshops held by Newcastle Safeguarding Adults Board:
1:00pm – 2:00pm Adults at Risk of Exploitation Research (hosted by Newcastle Safeguarding Adults Board)
2:00pm – 3:00pm Language and Victim Blaming (hosted by Newcastle Safeguarding Adults Board)
Monday
1:30pm – 2:45pm Ann Craft Trust AGM & Safeguarding Seminar – Sense on Understanding Consent and Choice.
Tuesday
10:00am – 11:00am Camphill Village Trust & The Voice of Lived Experience (hosted by Ann Craft Trust)
1:30pm – 2:30pm Understanding Professional Boundaries. (hosted by Ann Craft Trust)
Thursday
10:00am – 11:00am Understanding County Lines (hosted by Ann Craft Trust)
12:30pm – 1:30pm Evidencing Links Between Cognitive Impairment & Exploitation (hosted by Ann Craft Trust)
Friday
10am – 11am Mental Health and Wellbeing in Sport With Sport Wales (hosted by Ann Craft Trust)
