Host of activities to mark National Safeguarding Adults Week next week

News from our partners Keeping Adults Safe in Shropshire Network

The Keeping Adults Safe in Shropshire Network will be hosting a range of activities from Monday 18 November to Sunday 24 November 2019, in support of National Safeguarding Adults Week 2019.

Adult social care

The annual campaign, led by the Ann Craft Trust, aims to promote the importance of safeguarding the health and wellbeing of adults, particularly those with needs for care and support across the UK.

The Keeping Adults Safe in Shropshire Network will be supporting the week locally by:

• Launching a “Know Your Rights” campaign to encourage organisations in Shropshire to start a conversation with:

• • adults who use their services
  • family members
  • staff and volunteers.

The ‘Know Your Rights’ conversation will focus on ensuring that all parties are able to understand the rights of adults who use services and, more importantly, that adults are enabled to uphold and challenge organisations when they do not feel they are being respected.

The campaign includes a Know your Rights guide and toolkit which has been developed in collaboration with partners* and is available online for individuals and organisations.

• Hosting their annual Adult Safeguarding Awareness 2019 Conference on Wednesday 20 November 2019 at the Barnabus Community Centre in Shrewsbury. The joint event with Telford Safeguarding Partnership, focuses on domestic abuse, adult safeguarding and older people, and is aimed at staff and volunteers across organisations in Shropshire and Telford to raise awareness of older people who are at risk of, or experiencing domestic abuse.

As well as any local initiatives that week there will be a national push on the following topics:

• Modern slavery
• Self-neglect
• Domestic abuse
• Transforming care
• Safeguarding adults in sports and activities.

Ivan Powell Chair of The Keeping Adults Safe Network, said:-

“I am pleased to be supporting National Safeguarding Adults Week which helps us to continue to raise the awareness of adult safeguarding among all the citizens of Shropshire. This presents the Shropshire Safeguarding Partnership and the Keeping Adults Safe in Shropshire Network with the opportunity to celebrate and promote the positive work that organisations are doing day in and day out.

“We work in partnership to ensure that we can support and promote people to live as independently and safely as they can throughout their lives, and to ensure that adults are kept safe from the risk or experience of abuse or neglect.

“During the week I would like to encourage organisations to make use of our Know Your Rights campaign and have a conversation about how they are upholding the rights of our citizens when they need to access their services. I’m also looking forward to our partnership event with our neighbouring Safeguarding Partnership in Telford which this year has a particular focus on domestic abuse and older people.”

If you have a concern or want to talk to someone about an adult who is or might be being abused or neglected, it is better to talk to someone sooner rather than later.

You can call Shropshire Council’s First Point of Contact on 0345 678 9044.

Further information about National Adult Safeguarding Week can be found here.

To find out more about The Keeping Adults Safe in Shropshire Network Website visit http://www.keepingadultssafeinshropshire.org.uk/learning-resources/information-and-learning-resources/.

The website also includes information and learning resources to help professionals, volunteers and organisations to continue to develop and maintain their knowledge understanding and skills in key areas relevant to adult safeguarding.

Further information

Keeping Adults Safe in Shropshire Network

The Keeping Adults Safe in Shropshire Network brings together representatives of each of the main organisations responsible for helping and protecting adults with care and support needs; who are at risk of or experiencing abuse or neglect. Our vision is that Shropshire is a place where adults with care and support needs as well as children live a life free from abuse or neglect. We work together to make sure that everyone in the partnership is working towards this vision and are working with adults at risk to help prevent and protect them from being abused.

Organisations represented in the network include:

• Shropshire Council
• West Mercia Police
• Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group
• National Probation Service
• Warwickshire and West Mercia Community Rehabilitation Company
• Shropshire Partners in Care
• Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust
• Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Foundation Trust
• Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust
• Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
• Healthwatch Shropshire
• Shropshire Fire and Rescue
• Shropshire Voluntary Sector Assembly
• Department for Work and Pensions
• West Midlands Ambulance Service