Self Neglect and Hoarding 2024 Launch

The integrated health safeguarding services, safeguarding adult board colleagues and partner agencies held sessions in October 2024 to discuss the newly updated joint self-neglect and hoarding policy.

Self-neglect remains one of the main safeguarding themes seen nationally as well as locally, it is vital people struggling to manage their care and support needs and tasks of daily living get the support they need from the services best placed to help them.

The policy can be found here and there is a handy bite size guide here.

During the sessions feedback from practitioners was the need to develop the risk assessment management tool to an editable and accessible document, which can be found here Risk Assessment

The sessions were delivered by representatives from CFT/RCHT and SAB and were looking at some of the patient/service user stories that have led to the update and think about how the new risk assessment tool can be practically applied when there are concerns around self-neglect. The sessions were very well received with over 100 attendees on each session. A copy of the presentation slides are here: Self-neglect policy launch slides