This briefing outlines the learning opportunities available during the Autumn period delivered by CSAB for practitioners across the partnership and wider agencies.

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You will notice that many of our events require you to book using the on-line platform Eventbrite.  If you have issues please contact csab@cumberland.gov.uk and we will support where possible.

Tuesday 5th November, 13:30 - 16:30pm, via Microsoft Teams.

Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board invites you to attend an online event which is taking place as part of their thematic Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) on the topic of self-neglect. The event seeks to explore the views of practitioners and managers across all agencies on the challenges of working with people who self-neglect and to answer the questions ‘what works well’ and ‘what needs improvement’?

The SAR

The Board has appointed an independent reviewer – Suzy Braye to lead the review, working closely with a panel of senior representatives from key agencies. The review has focused so far on six individuals who died during 2023 in circumstances of self-neglect. The panel now would like to hear about current practice in work with people who self-neglect.

The Event

The Board is hoping that practitioners, managers and senior leaders from agencies across the Cumbria Safeguarding Adults partnership will attend the online event. At the event the independent reviewer will first share some of the learning themes emerging from review of the six cases. The main purpose of the event, however, is to invite discussion of two broader questions:

• What is working well now in work with people who self-neglect?
• What are the challenges now of working with self-neglect, what could we improve?

Participants will not be asked to comment directly or answer questions specifically on their own involvement with any individual. The focus will instead be at a more general level: what helps best practice with people who self-neglect and what hinders it?

It is important that we have attendance from practitioners and operational managers with direct current experience from the frontline, but also from senior leaders, including those in senior management and in commissioning. In this way, it will be possible to ‘check the temperature’ of self-neglect work from the perspective of all the organisational layers on which positive change will depend.

Each agency is therefore invited to nominate a cross section of staff to attend:

• Practitioners who encounter self-neglect in their work.
• Operational managers, supervisors and those in specialist and advisory roles such as safeguarding and commissioning.
• Senior leaders responsible for strategy and leadership in this area of practice.

Please send participants’ names, job roles and email contact details to csab@cumberland.gov.uk by Tuesday 22^nd October 2024.

Advance registration is essential, as a briefing document and joining details will be sent directly to those attending.

Thursday 7th November, 12:00 - 13:30, via Microsoft Teams

The learning session will provide an overview of the key themes and lessons learned following a Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) undertaken by Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board (CSAB) in relation to Donna.  The learning briefing will be published during October 2024, ahead of the session.

Donna moved between two areas and therefore this SAR identified important learning for both Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board and Kirklees Safeguarding Adults Board. The implementation of the learning from this review will be jointly overseen by both partnerships.

Donna was aged 23 when she sadly died by suicide.  

Practitioners are invited to attend the lunch and learn session to find out more about the learning the SAR identified. 

To reserve a free place, please click here. 

Thursday, 14th November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00, via Microsoft Teams

Practitioners across the system are invited to attend a lunch and learn session where the learning from a recent SAR Miss B will be shared.

Miss B had a diagnosed mild learning disability and also suffered from diabetes, she was supported by a number of professionals and services with additional support provided by family. Miss B was known not to adhere to her medication plan, including the administration of insulin and had a history of disengaging from services and treatment plans that were provided to maintain her physical health.

On many occasions throughout the period of the review, consideration was given to Miss B’s capacity to understand the reasons for her treatment and the consequences of not adhering to it and this was discussed between professionals. The SAR considered how agencies could have worked together more effectively to prevent harm resulting from the self-neglect occurring.

Practitioners are invited to attend the lunch and learn session to find out more about the learning the SAR identified. Places need to be booked in advance as further information will be shared with practitioners ahead of the lunch & learn session.

The CSAB virtual annual Conference will take place on;

Tuesday 19th November 2024 via MS Teams.

The full day event will delivered as 2 sessions, participants are invited to book to attend the morning session, afternoon or both.  If you would like to join us for the full day please book both AM and PM sessions using links below.

Morning session

This session will acknowledge and explore the impact of bearing witness to trauma on our workforce, recognise the cost of bearing witness and identify ways to protect ourselves professionally.  It will support participants to recognise the signs in themselves and others.

The morning session will also support participants to reflect on the 'unconscious bias' the impact this can have on our work and those with work with, including adults with care and support needs.

If you would like to book a place on the AM session please click here

Afternoon session

This session will explore local and national learning identified from SARs relating to self-neglect.  It will share local learning and best practice identified through thematic self-neglect SAR.

There will also be a focus on 'care and support needs', identification of needs and interpretation from legislation, The Care Act 2014 ensuring adults at risk are safeguarded.

Further sessions to be confirmed include Modern Slavery and Exploitation.

If you would like to book a place on the conference please click here.

Wednesday, 20th November, 12:00 - 12:45pm, via Microsoft Teams

During National Safeguarding Adults Week CSAB will deliver a lunch & learn session to highlight good practice when working with adults who are experiencing self-neglect.

John’s story illustrates the effectiveness of multi-agency working and practice when working with adults who experience self-neglect and the impact of practitioner’s tenacity, professional curiosity and creativity ensuring making safeguarding personal with positive outcomes.

To reserve a free place, please click here. 

Tuesday 3rd December, 12:00 - 13:00, via MS Teams

Transitional Safeguarding is an "approach to safeguarding adolescents and young adults fluidly' and builds on the best available evidence, learns from both children's and adult safeguarding practice.  Further to learning idenitified in the Kate SAR, CSAB in collaboration with Cumbria Safeguarding Children's partnership are facilitating a lunch and learn session to formally launch a Transitional Safeguarding Procedure for children and young adults at risk of exploitation.

The procedure sets out the arrangements for young people aged 17.5 years and above, whose circumstances may mean that safeguarding adults' procedures would apply when they are 18.  

Practitioners working with children and young adults are invited to attend this lunch & learn session where there will be a walkthrough of the procedure.

To book your free place, please click here.