Our CSAB Policy & Guidance group are working to refresh and review CSAB policy and guidance.

The following documents have been approved and new versions are now available to view or download from our website;

• CSAB Complaints Policy
• CSAB Information Sharing Guidance
• CSAB Members guide & handbook
• CSAB Escalation Guidance

Thank you to colleagues from the partnership for supporting this policy review.  Further updates and refreshed policy and guidance to follow.

Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board (CSAB) is committed to a culture of learning and improvement. Central to effective adult safeguarding is a competent workforce and we recognise that learning can take many forms.

Competency Framework

This multi-agency Learning and Development Strategy and supporting information is designed to enhance best practice for the development of training and ensure staff access training relevant to their role in safeguarding adults at risk of abuse or neglect as defined in the National Competency Framework for Safeguarding Adults published by Bournemouth National Competency Framework.  This is the endorsed and accepted framework tool and replaces any historic 'passport' documents.

Learning Zone

The "Learning Zone" on our website is a dedicated area for organisations and practitioners designed to enhance best practice for training and ensure staff access training relevant to their role in safeguarding adults at risk of abuse or neglect.

My learning (e-learning)

Work continues to identify a suitable solution for external partners, providers etc. following the decommissioning of the Local Authority e-learning provision, known as My Learning, work continues to identify a suitable solution for external partners and providers, to support them to access safeguarding training.  

The National Safeguarding Adults Board Network are inviting you to nominate colleagues for a Safeguarding Adults Excellence Award. If you would like to nominate and recognise the hard work and dedication of any professional and/or team who have gone over and above this year, who continue to provide an outstanding commitment and effort to safeguard adults and their families, you can complete a nomination.

There are various categories, the deadline for all nominations is 18th October 2024. 

Click here to be redirected to the survey form to make your nomination. 

For further information, please email bsab@bexley.gov.uk

National Safeguarding Adults Week 2024 takes place from Monday 18th – Friday 22nd November.

The core theme for the 2024 week is Working in Partnership. Ann Craft Trust believe that working in partnerships allows them to share their knowledge of safeguarding, learn from others and ultimately create safer cultures.

During Safeguarding Adults Week 2024, Ann Craft Trust will be collaborating with their partners to explore a different safeguarding theme each day. The themes will encourage how to work together to establish safer cultures within workplaces and communities.   

Watch this space, we will share further details about our annual conference which will be held during the week, along with other learning opportunities and resources.

Save the date for the CSAB annual conference Tuesday 19th November 2024.

The Ann Craft Trust have launched a new e learning course focused on financial abuse and financial capability.

The course includes information, interactive tasks, videos, and quizzes to help the learner understand more about financial capability, along with the risks of financial abuse and exploitation. It also provides some guidance on how you can safeguard yourself against these risks.

The course covers:

• Financial capability and numeracy skills
• Financial, economic and material abuse
• Grooming and exploitation
• Tips to protect yourself
• Further resources and places for support

To book a course or find out more:

• Call 0115 951 5400
• Email ann-craft-trust@nottingham.ac.uk
• click here to book a place.

Every Life Matters strives to take a fresh, innovative and long term approach to suicide prevention and suicide bereavement support in Cumbria - a county that has had suicide rates well above the national average for too many years.

At the heart of Every Life Matter's approach to suicide prevention, it is the belief that all members of the local community can have a part to play in suicide prevention.

Every Life Matter's training aims to reduce the stigma attached to suicide, increase understanding of when someone is at risk of suicide, raise awareness of how to practically support someone, and the range of services and resources available for people in the local communities experiencing suicidal thoughts.

When: Tuesday 10th September 2024, 10am, 12noon and 2pm for anyone living or working in Cumbria.

To book your free space on the online Suicide Awareness Training, click here.

To download World Suicide Prevention Day resources, please click here. 

Research in Practice are running a one-hour workshop to support practitioner knowledge around discriminatory abuse by introducing the policy and research base on this topic, drawing on findings from the Safeguarding Adults Reviews.

The workshop will explore outcomes from a recent research study (supported by Research in Practice), which used story completion methods to understand how practitioners may respond to different protected characteristics in divergent ways. 

Practitioners will also be encouraged to consider their own practice throughout the workshop in order to translate the research messages into practical steps to support people who are experiencing discriminatory abuse.

Learning objectives

• Recognise and respond to discriminatory abuse as a social care practitioner.
• Identify practitioners’ different responses to safeguarding concerns for individuals with different characteristics.
• Situate discriminatory abuse in the wider context of increasing hate crime.
• Consider practice implications for their own context, drawing from the findings shared.