National Safeguarding Week (November)
Below is an overview of the events held during National Safeguarding Week with recordings as available. If there is something specific you would like to see or want to present during National Safeguarding Week in November 2024, please get in touch with safeguardingadultsboard@cornwall.gov.uk
Monday 20.11.2023
Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust (RCHT) and Cornwall Foundation NHS Trust (CFT) colleagues presented the following sessions:
Susan: what her life has taught us - an exploration of early learning from the case of 'Susan', a case study based on learning from a local Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) referral. Susan's learning disability and health conditions meant that she was reliant on one family carer to meet her needs.
Further sessions are being delivered in 2024 - booking information is available here.
Safeguarding Community of Practice - Introduction to National Safeguarding week, Information Sharing, a summary explanation of housing and topics for 2024.
Wednesday 22.11.2023
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Safeguarding Adults Board (CIoS SAB) and Cornwall Council Adult Social Care colleagues delivered two in-person sessions to raise awareness of safeguarding thresholds, referral pathways, CIoS SAB and learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews.
This session will be delivered again in person in April/May 2024 - for more information, contact safeguardingadultsboard@cornwall.gov.uk
Thursday 23.11.2023
Carers bespoke emergency service workshop:
Cornwall and Devon Police, Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS), South West Ambulance service (SWAST) and Cornwall Rural Carers Charity (CRCC) colleagues supported the delivery of this workshop through our Learning and Development Subgroup. Carers bespoke emergency service workshop session as a recorded resource for emergency service frontline professionals. The workshop was developed as a bespoke recorded resource for emergency service frontline professionals to share learning from the SAB Carers conference 2023 and thematic carers Safeguarding Adult Review and in acknowledgement for National Safeguarding week and Carers Rights day 2023.
Friday 24.11.2023
Cornwall Council and Cornwall Fire and Rescue colleagues delivered a Hoarding Awareness Session.
The SAB L&D members and previous conference feedback identified hoarding as an area of interest. Cornwall Council Housing and Fire colleagues have co-delivered a session below to raise awareness of hoarding and signposting to the protocol and support:
During this week of activity, we also support Safer Cornwall's promotion of the national 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence, which ran from 25th November to 10th December 2023.