The Care Quality Commission (CQC) are consulting on their proposed guidance to help providers and other stakeholders understand and meet the new standards on visiting.  The guidance also sets out what people using health and social care services and their families, friends or advocates can expect.

You can read the draft guidance for Providers here.

This workshop from Research in Practice shares learning from a new Radical Safeguarding Toolkit for Homelessness. The co-produced toolkit offers a new approach to safeguarding adults experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantages.  

Click here to reserve a place on a workshop on either 7th March 2024 or 18th April 2024

To mark World Social Work Day, join Community Care and two expert speakers for this free webinar about wellbeing and secondary trauma.

Attend this webinar to: ·

• Understand how to look after your wellbeing in a professional context.
• Learn about the risk of secondary trauma and how it might impact you as a social worker.
• Understand how to mitigate the risk of secondary trauma through healthy practice as opposed to simply “treating” the problem.
• Find out more about SelfCare Psychology’s Five Pillars of Protection model and how it can help you as a social worker, or support your team as a manager.

This webinar is relevant to all social workers and social care professionals, whether working in children’s or adults’ services, and is free to watch live. Community Care Inform subscribers will have access to the recorded version of the webinar, plus a written transcript and additional resources.

Click here to sign up to the online event which will take place on 19th March 2024 12pm-1pm

You are invited to join a webinar organised by the Local Government Association (LGA) where speakers will provide insights, inspirations and challenges to support improvement and change in how people experiencing homelessness are safeguarded, including;

• Recent findings on homelessness from the second National Safeguarding Adults Review analysis
• How ideas from social justice movements can activate improvements to the safeguarding systems around people experiencing homelessness.

The webinar will also include a session from Gill Taylor who will share ideas from the Radical Safeguarding Toolkit - Homelessness, published by Research in Practice (see above news item).  This will focus particularly on how ideas from social justice movements can activate improvements to the safeguarding systems around people experiencing homelessness.

Click here to reserve your place on the webinar which will take place on 20th March 2024 2-4pm.

Did you miss any of the lunch & learn sessions hosted during National Safeguarding Week?  You can catch up and watch these on our website, links below. 

These and other lunch & learn sessions can be used for your continuing professional development or watched in Team Meetings, used to promote reflectiion and discussion.  

Click here to watch  An Introduction to Safeguarding Adults

Click here to watch An Introduction to Trauma Informed?

Why does Language Matter? Click here to watch the session which describes why language matters and the impact of language used can make.

You can also visit our 'Learning Zone' where you will find other recorded sessions.

You are encouraged to read the 5 minute briefing published earlier this month which is based on an article published in Community Care.  It is intended to myth bust and provide clarification for practitioners and practice in respect of consent and safeguarding.

Click here to read the 5 minute briefing. 

On the 25th January 2024, Hourglass presented a webinar regarding the sexual abuse of older people with an expert panel.

You can listen to the Hourglass webinar here.

According to the Home Office, Domestic Homicide Reviews will be renamed to 'Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews' following calls to better recognise deaths from domestic abuse related suicide.

The government is taking action to better recognise the often hidden victims of domestic abuse who die after suicide, coercive and controlling behaviour, and economic abuse. Publishing its response to a public consultation on the 5th of February, reviews conducted after fatal domestic abuse cases, the government is strengthening the law to highlight that these reviews can take place when a death has occurred as a result of domestic abuse, including in suicide cases, in line with the legal definition of domestic abuse as introduced in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.  Read the response to the response to a public consultation  to find out more.

The Clewer Initiative states modern slavery is happening in hand car washes in towns and cities up and down the country.   While many of these are legitimate businesses, reports suggest that many more are run by unscrupulous people, determined to exploit their workers to make as much money as possible. In these instances, workers may be victims of modern slavery.

By using the Safe Car Wash App, you can identify cases of exploitation and help end modern slavery at hand car washes. Click here to find out more and download the app.

Mencap and UK Finance’s Take Five to Stop Fraud campaign have launched a new easy read guide to help people with a learning disability spot the signs of scams.

It focuses on romance scams and impersonation fraud, to which people with a learning disability may be more vulnerable. Click here to view Mencap's guide. 

Diabetes and the links to Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs) research conducted by Teeside Safeguarding Adults Board identified that a number of SARs involve individuals who have/had diabetes.

The Northeast SAR Champions hosted a Diabetes awareness session linked to SARs, as part of National Safeguarding Adults Week (NSAW) in November 2023. The session provided a valuable insight and highlighted:

✓ An overview of what Diabetes is, who gets it and why

✓ How the condition is managed.

✓ Challenges for people who are diagnosed.

✓ How it can present and manifest if not managed appropriately (i.e. links to self-neglect, alcohol or substance misuse, mental health issues, trauma and constraints to lifestyle.

✓ How practitioners can support and the pathways available.

The recorded session is available to view now here.