Training
Safeguarding Adults Week - 2024
Safeguarding Adults Week is a time for organisations to come together to raise awareness of important safeguarding issues.
The Ann Craft Trust have themed the week around ‘Safeguarding Yourself and Others’ and the following free live events hope to raise awareness of these themes. It is hoped the week will enable more organisations and individuals to feel confident in recognising signs of abuse and neglect, and the recording and reporting of safeguarding concerns.
National Safeguarding Adults Week 2024 resources and webinar recordings will be added to the Padlet here: https://padlet.com/klittleford2/national-safeguarding-adults-week-2024-f9wwhs623heme402
Monday 18th November
Title: Establishing Professional Boundaries - A National Safeguarding Adults Week 2024 Webinar
Platform: Zoom Time: 11am-12.30pm
To Book: via the Partners in Care website here (you will need to register for an account to book a place)
Delivered by: Karen Littleford, Safeguarding Adults Lead, Partners in Care
Aims: To consider why professional boundaries are important when supporting adults
Learning Objectives: by the end of the session, you will be able to:
- Summarise who professional boundaries apply to
- Define why it is important to have professional boundaries
- State what appropriate professional boundaries look like in your role
- Explain how power imbalances could impact on working relationships
- Identify the signs that professional boundaries are being blurred
- Describe how should you respond if you are concerned about professional boundaries issues in your organisation
Attendees: Staff and volunteers from adult social care, health, housing and the third sector across Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin (and Partners in Care members from Cheshire.)
Tuesday 19th November
Title: Reducing inappropriate medication for people within the Learning Disability and / or Autism Communities
Platform: Teams (online) Time: 2pm – 3pm
To Book: Please email partnerships@telford.gov.uk
Delivered by: Mercedeh Fahimi-Vahid, PhD, Senior Pharmacist – Medicines Value and Transformation, NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin
People with a learning disability are thought to be 16 times more likely and autistic people 7 times more likely to be prescribed an antipsychotic than the general population. It is this disparity that led to the creation of STOMP and STAMP as an NHS Long Term Plan commitment. STOMP and STAMP are the responsibility of all professionals in primary care, secondary care, educational settings and social care. They promote information sharing and collaboration across sectors of care to minimise all forms of inappropriate prescribing
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the STOMP / STAMP definition
- Understand the meaning of psychotropic medications and identify alternative options of interventions
- What to do if you are concerned
Attendees: Staff and volunteers from adult social care, health, police, housing and the third sector across Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin (and Partners in Care members from Cheshire.)
Wednesday 20th November
Title: Learning from Safeguarding Adults Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews
Platform: Teams Time: 10am – 11.30am
To Book: Please visit https://forms.office.com/e/Rq3QNAecmt
Delivered by: Lisa Gardner (Shropshire Safeguarding Community Partnership) and Lisa Jones (Telford and Wrekin Safeguarding Partnerships)
Learning Objectives:
- Sharing of key themes emerging from reviews across Shropshire and Telford
- Understand what resources are available to help support your practice
- Be confident in how to refer in for a review
- Understand where to access to briefings and reports
Attendees: Staff and volunteers from adult social care, health, police, housing and the third sector across Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin (and Partners in Care members from Cheshire.)
Thursday 21st November
*** All day drop in event at Telford Town Centre and Shrewsbury Town Centre
(9am – 5pm) ***
Come and chat with our safeguarding experts who will be on hand to answer questions you may have around domestic abuse, hoarding, self-neglect along with many other concerns.
Telford will have reps from the Independent Living Centre who will be providing information on how to remain living independently in your own home for as long as possible with the aid of useful tools and gadgets!
Shropshire will have professionals from various teams throughout the day on hand to talk to members of the public about staying healthy, well and safe. Specific location to be confirmed.
Friday 22nd November
Title: Hoarding Awareness
Platform: Teams (online) Time: 10am – 11am
To Book: Please email partnerships@telford.gov.uk
Delivered by: Heather Matuozzo, Founder and Director of Clouds End CIC
Learning Objectives:
- To have an understanding of the different types of hoarding
- How best to support someone with hoarding tendencies and have difficult conversations
- Understand that hoarding cannot be fixed with a skip
- Where to go for further help
Attendees: Staff and volunteers from adult social care, health, police, housing and the third sector across Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin (and Partners in Care members from Cheshire.)