SSCP Business Unit Newsletter - October 2024 (Part Two)

Welcome to the SSCP Business Unit newsletter! 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 newsletter. Please take a moment once you have finished reading to share this newsletter with your colleagues and that you can sign up to the SSCP mailing list through the website.

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• Responding to Self-Neglect in Shropshire training
• Interactive webinars – Learning from Case Reviews in Shropshire – Free to attend
• Safeguarding Adults Week 2024 – Working Together
• What’s taking place in Shropshire during National Safeguarding Adults Week?
• Establishing Professional Boundaries - A National Safeguarding Adults Week 2024 Webinar
• Reducing inappropriate medication for people within the Learning Disability and / or Autism Communities
• Learning from Safeguarding Adults Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews
• All-day drop-in centre in Shrewsbury and Telford Town Centres
• Hoarding Awareness
• Safeguarding Adults Animations
• Joint Training – Course places available in November 2024
• Learning Briefing – Sexually Harmful Behaviour
• Train the trainers 2-day course in February 2025
• White Ribbon – A call out to people from under-represented communities
• Learning From Case Reviews – Executive Function Animation – Worcestershire Safeguarding Adults Board
• The Shropshire Family Info Service
• The SSCP Website – People’s Stories
• TREES Newsletter
• Have you got something you want to share?

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Responding to Self-Neglect in Shropshire guidance and 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 outlines 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:

• Wednesday the 30^th of October – 10:30 – 11:30
• Monday the 4^th of November – 12:30 – 13:30
• Friday the 15^th of November – 14:00 – 15:00

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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.

National Safeguarding Adults Week 2024 resources and webinar recordings will be added to the Padlet here

As for what’s happening in Shropshire during National Safeguarding Adults Week 2024…..

Monday the 18^th 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 19^th 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 20^th 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 21^st 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 22^nd 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 23^rd of November and Sunday the 24^th 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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Joint Training – Course places available in November 2024

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Learning Briefing – Sexually Harmful Behaviour

The Learning Briefing on Sexually Harmful Behaviour was published on the SSCP website on the 7^th of October – you can find it on the website on our Learning from Local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and Rapid Reviews page.

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Interactive webinars - Learning from Case Reviews in Shropshire – Free to attend

People in Shropshire have died, and it’s important that we learn from these cases and understand what we can all do to prevent further serious harm and deaths.

There are three different one hour webinars which will be repeated between January and March 2025, which are intended to increase your knowledge, understanding and how you can make a difference in your everyday practice.

You can find more details about the webinars and book your places on the SSCP website and find out about other courses being run on our Learning & Development page. We look forward to seeing you there.

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Train the Trainers 2-day course in February 2025

Train the Trainers is a two-day course which will be held on the 4^th and 11^th February 2025. This will enable participants to deliver Raising Awareness in Safeguarding and Protection Children (3 hour) multiagency training to all staff within their own organisations and agencies.

Both days must be booked on and attended at Prestfelde School, London Road, Shrewsbury. SY2 6ND. This is not an online course. Once registered on the webinar via the links shown your details will be saved for the course organiser and the date can be added to your calendar.

Click directly on these links to register

Day 1 Train the Trainers 4th February 2025 SSCP

Day 2 Train the Trainers 11th February 2025 SSCP

To see details of what the course will cover click here

SSCP Train the Trainers (2-day course info)

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White Ribbon – A call out to people from under-represented communities

Come and see what services are available in your area for victims and survivors of crime:

Worcester – Monday the 25^th of November 2024: 11:00am – 2:00pm at The Guildhall, High Street, Worcestershire, WR1 2EY

Hereford – Tuesday 26^th of November 2024: 10:30am – 2:00pm at the Social Prescribing Hub, Maylord Shopping Centre, Maylord Street, Hereford, HR1 2DT

Telford – Thursday 28^th of November 2024: 9:00am – 2:30pm at Leegomery Community Centre, Leegate Avenue, Telford, TF1 6NA

Shrewsbury – Friday 29^th November 2024: 9:00am – 2:30pm at The Lantern, Meadow Farm Drive, Harlescott, Shrewsbury, SY1 4NG

If you are an organisation who would like a stall at the Shropshire event at the Lantern, please see the Eventbrite link below (we are limited on numbers so this was the best way to be able to keep track of how many organisations would like to have a stall).

White Ribbon Under-represented communities’ event. Tickets, Fri, Nov 29, 2024, at 9:00 AM | Eventbrite

Find out more at www.whiteribbon.org.uk/promise

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Learning From Case Reviews - Executive Function Animation from Worcestershire Safeguarding Adults Board

In this video, produced for the Worcestershire Safeguarding Adults Board, Professor Keith Brown helps us to:

1. Understand what the term Executive Function means
2. Recognise signs of decreased Executive Function
3. Offers advice and tips about how to support someone showing signs of decline in executive function in relation to the journey of dementia.

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The Shropshire Family Info Service

The Family information Service (FIS) is here to give families the information and resources they need to help their family life run a little smoother. They can help with anything and everything to do with family life, whether that's something for parents or something for children and young people.

A video has been developed with further information – you can find it here.

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The SSCP Website – People’s Stories

As we continue to improve the SSCP website, we’ve seen that the “People’s Stories” page has not been updated in some time. If you have a story that you feel would be appropriate to share on the site, then please let us know at sscpbusinessunit@shropshire.gov.uk – please put “People’s Stories” in the subject header and we can add this quickly to share these stories across the Partnership.

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TREES Newsletter

The latest TREES (Together Reducing and Ending Exploitation in Shropshire) newsletter is now on the SSCP website – you can find it on the Tackling Exploitation page.

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