Welcome to the second edition of the SSCP Business Unit communication update! We thought it would be better, rather than sending several separate e-mails that we try and combine them all together into an easily digestible communication update. Please take a moment once you have finished reading to share this communication update with your colleagues and that you can sign up to the SSCP mailing list through the website.
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Contents
- Responding to Self-Neglect in Shropshire training
- The INCEL Movement Presentation
- DBS Virtual Conference 2024
- Telford & Wrekin Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter
- Domestic Abuse & Disability Video
- Adult Safeguarding Week 2024
- Have you got something you want to share?
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Responding to Self-Neglect in Shropshire training
The Responding to Self-Neglect in Shropshire guidance has now been completed and is available via the SSCP website. The documents provided here supply practice guidance and outline the local multi-agency procedure in Shropshire for responding to self-neglect in relation to adults with care and support needs.
As well, the Business Unit is running training sessions for professionals who wish to know more about how to use these tools. You can book your place for these sessions by following this link. Or you can follow the QR code below:
The sessions are being run on the following dates:
- Friday the 11th of October – 13:30 – 14:30
- Tuesday the 15th of October – 15:00 – 16:00
- Thursday the 24th of October – 18:30 – 19:30
- Wednesday the 30th of October – 10:30 – 11:30
- Monday the 4th of November – 12:30 – 13:30
- Friday the 15th of November – 14:00 – 15:00
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The INCEL Movement Presentation
The Shropshire Channel Panel recently received a training session on ‘The INCEL Movement’. The Panel felt it was important for Partners to have access to some of the information shared during this training and therefore it has been shared on the SSCP website. The Preventing Terrorism in Shropshire webpage contains The INCEL Movement presentation as well as further information about what work the Channel Panel do and how you can report your concerns about someone becoming radicalised.
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DBS Virtual Conference 2024
Registration is now open for the DBS Virtual Conference 2024!
Register to attend on the following link:
DBS Events - DBS Virtual Conference 2024 (livegroup.co.uk)
Taking place on 15-17 October 2024, this year’s DBS Conference will take on a new format. The DBS Conference 2024 event will run online, over the course of 3 days, (from 10:00 – 15:00) and will include an exciting variety of keynote speakers, workshops, panel and round table discussions, providing essential insight into the current and future safeguarding landscape.
- Day 1 theme: Technology and Innovation and the future of safeguarding.
- Day 2 theme: Information Sharing and the importance in safeguarding.
- Day 3 theme: ROA - Rehabilitation of Offenders - balancing safeguarding with individuals rights to rehabilitation.
As the event is online, there will be recordings available post conference to view at your convenience, so please still sign up if you are not able to attend on the day, or only able to attend parts of this year’s conference.
This event is free of charge and open to all with an interest in safeguarding so please feel free to share this link with your colleagues and networks.
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Telford & Wrekin Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter
The Telford & Wrekin Safeguarding Partnership have released their latest newsletter – you can read it here
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Domestic Abuse and Disability Video
The Domestic Abuse and Disability Video with British Sign language and subtitles is now available on the Partners in Care YouTube channel.
You can watch it at the links below:
Domestic Abuse and Disability (British Sign Language)
Domestic Abuse and Disability (With Subtitles)
Or you can find the videos In the Partners in Care Adult Safeguarding Playlist here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR7h4BzDDmvRK6dsapYZC-IWC1eKkFpyC
Or in the Domestic Abuse playlist here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR7h4BzDDmvSp4JgLZagfQAY2yEXc42XT
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Safeguarding Adults Week 2024 – Working Together
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.
As for what’s happening in Shropshire during National Safeguarding Adults Week 2024…..
Monday the 18th of November – Establishing Professional Boundaries - A National Safeguarding Adults Week 2024 Webinar
Platform: Zoom Time: 11am-12.30pm
To Book: via the Partners in Care website (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.)
On Tuesday the 19th of November, 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.
On Wednesday the 20th of November 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 & Wrekin (and Partners in Care members from Cheshire.)
On Thursday the 21st of November there is an all-day drop-in centre at both Telford Town Centre and Shrewsbury Town Centre between 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.
On Friday the 22nd of November – 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 understand 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, Telford, and Wrekin (and Partners in Care members from Cheshire.)
On Saturday the 23rd of November and Sunday the 24th of November we would ask Partners to consider watching our Safeguarding Adult animations:
- Telford and Wrekin’s short video all about Tricky Friends and possible abuse and the Shropshire version here
- Domestic Abuse & Disability: It Happens To Us Too here
- Hidden Harms - Domestic Abuse and Older Adults here
- What To Do About Self-Neglect here
Family Connect is the local Safeguarding Hub for Telford. If you are worried about someone you know don’t sit in silence, speak up. You can get in touch with Family Connect by using the online referral form or calling 01952 385385 option 1
To report a safeguarding concern by phone ring the First Point of Contact team on 0345 678 9044 Monday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm, and Friday 9am to 4pm. If you have urgent adult safeguarding concerns outside of these hours, please phone the Emergency Social Work Duty Team on 0345 678 9040. ____________________________________________________________________________________
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