Friday 25th October 2024
Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board (CSAB) have a number of learning opportunities available during the Autumn period for practitioners across the partnership and wider agencies, we encourage you to share this widely with colleagues.
Please check out forthcoming learning opportunities by clicking here to be redirected to our recently published 5 Minute Briefing. There is also a further event 'Bias & Unconscious Bias: Malignant Alienation' added to our calendar during National Safeguarding Adults Week, click here for more details.
Booking & Eventbrite
You will notice that many of our events require you to book using the on-line platform Eventbrite.
Once you have booked your place, how to join the event:
- Go to the confirmation email you received after registering your place.
- Click "Go to My Tickets" in the orange box and sign into your EventBrite account.
- Once the EventBrite page loads up, click on "Go To Online event page".
- Visit the event page, click the orange "Join now" button.
- A Microsoft Teams page will open, click "Open".
If you have issues please contact csab@cumberland.gov.uk and we will support where possible.
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Book your place!
We are excited to announce the line up and speakers for our annual conference which will take place during National Safeguarding Adults Week on Tuesday 19th November 2024; read more here and book your place.
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CSAB have a number of animations which have been adapted from other Safeguarding Adults Boards. These are useful tools for practice and to share with the adults and families you work with.
Tricky Friends
"Tricky Friends" which was developed by Norfolk Safeguarding Adults Board. Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board have obtained their permission to adapt this for use locally in Cumbria. It is aimed at all individuals, groups and organisations who support people with learning disabilities and autism, to raise awareness of issues like exploitation, county lines, cuckooing.
The animation will help people to understand what good friendships are, when they might be harmful, and what they can do. It is important that people with learning disabilities and autism, those who have cognitive difficulties, and also children and young adults, have positive opportunities to make and maintain friendships. We want to help them do this, to reduce the risk of harm and exploitation in groups who may be less able to recognise the intentions of others.
The animation is only 3 minutes long, and can be used with or by anyone - carers, family, organisations, individuals and groups.
Self Neglect
Self neglect includes a wide range of behaviors, neglecting to care for one's personal hygiene, health or surroundings and includes behaviour such as hoarding.
This animation looks at the difficult topic of self neglect, how to recognise the warning signs and who you can contact for help. It is intended to raise awareness and to be used as a tool to start a conversation with someone you may be worried about:
Hidden Harms - Domestic Abuse in Older Adults
Domestic Abuse involving older people can be under recognised and also underreported. Abuse can happen over many years or build up over time making it difficult to recognise. Based on the power and control wheel as adapted by Dewis Choice, the aim of this short animation is to be a tool to help support practitioners and families start a conversation with an older adult.
The animation provides examples of domestic abuse, the signs or forms it can take providing detail how to report. Click below to watch the animation on Hidden Harms - Older Adults and Domestic Abuse. Thanks to Dewis Choice and Norfolk Safeguarding Adults Board for allowing the adaptation for Cumbria.
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October marks National Domestic Violence Awareness Month which first began in 1981 when the first Domestic Violence Awareness Day was held, with the goal of raising awareness for victims and survivors of domestic violence. Since then, it has grown into an entire month dedicated to bringing attention to this important issue.
Domestic abuse is defined as where one person living with another and one person is clearly abusing the other person. It could be in the form of physical, sexual or psychological abuse or any range of the other abuse. It is where someone is targeting someone else in their own household.
Possible indicators of domestic violence or abuse:
- low self-esteem
- feeling that the abuse is their fault when it is not
- physical evidence of violence such as bruising, cuts, broken bones
- verbal abuse and humiliation in front of others
- fear of outside intervention
- damage to home or property
- isolation - for example - not seeing friends and family
- limited access to money
To find out more information to stay safe, the signs to look for and how to raise a safeguarding concern, please click here.
Or click here to watch CSAB's short animation on the Hidden Harms in Older Adults and Domestic Abuse.
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Safeguarding Adults Week 2024 takes place from Monday 18 – Friday 22 November 2023.
It is a time for organisations to come together to raise awareness of important safeguarding issues.
The core theme for the 2024 week is Working in Partnership. Ann Craft Trust believes that working in partnerships allows us to share our knowledge of safeguarding, learn from others and ultimately create safer cultures. Ann Craft Trust are offering a series of learning events during the week of action. Click here for more details.
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One in six-seven men in Britain will suffer from domestic abuse in their lifetime whilst one in every three domestic abuse victims are male.
There is a growing need to ensure men and their children receive male-victim friendly support and responses from organisations in the statutory, private and third sectors – at a local, regional and national level.
Man Kind are holding their 12th National Annual Conference on Male Victims of Domestic Abuse on "Supporting Male Victims of Domestic Abuse"
When: 13th November 2024, 09:30am - 12:30 noon.
Where: Zoom, online.
To find out more, please click here.
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Practitioners in Adult Social Care contribute to important decisions that affect people’s lives. The purpose of these decisions, set out in the Care Act 2014, is to promote the wellbeing of adults and carers.
Research in Practice are holding upcoming workshops that will explore the decision-making skills needed to improve the experiences and outcomes of people who draw on social care. These sessions will examine the fundamentals of good decision-making and the factors that challenge this.
When: Monday 18th November, 09:30 - 15:30
Where: via Microsoft Teams
Click here to book your place.
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Flu can be a nasty illness and people with a learning disability are at higher risk of developing complications.
@TwistingDucks have made a short film about who should get a flu jab this winter. This film will be useful for all practitioners who work with adults who have a learning disability and can be shared with individuals and families.
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Edge Training & Consultancy found a recent Ombudsman report has highlighted the need to provide robust evidence for changes to care packages made following a Care Act review.
The Ombudsman stated: ‘I am satisfied Mr B experienced an injustice as a result of the Council’s flawed decision and concern his care support would end with short notice. The Council’s Care Act review of Mr B’s care and support needs was therefore flawed..’
The Ombudsman ordered the local authority to: ‘...remind its Adult Social Care staff and managers conducting Care Act assessments or reviews of the requirement to properly consider service users views, their personal circumstances and relevant information from health professionals, and base its decisions on well considered and reasoned grounds in line with the Care and Support statutory guidance.’
To download the report for more details, click here.
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The BBC recently revealed the shocking story of 16 victims of modern slavery and human trafficking. The individuals were trafficked by a gang into the UK and forced to work in a branch of McDonald's and a factory supplying bread products to Asda, Co-op, M&S, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose.
The victims - who were all vulnerable, most having experienced homelessness or addiction - earned the legal minimum wage, but nearly all of their pay was stolen by the gang. They lived on a few pounds a day in cramped accommodation while the gang members enjoyed a lifestyle of luxury cars, gold jewellery and property in the Czech Republic.
Many red flags were overlooked:
- Victims’ wages were paid into bank accounts in other people’s names
- Victims were unable to speak English, and job applications were completed by a gang member
- Victims worked extreme hours at the McDonald’s - up to 70 to 100 a week
- Multiple employees had the same registered address. Nine victims lived in the same terraced home
The BBC 30 minute documentary provides an excellent introduction into how modern slavery can flourish in plain sight. Dame Sara Thornton (a former Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner) and Baroness Theresa May are interviewed as part of the programme.
Click here to watch the BBC Documentary, it is a must watch! Or click here to find out more about the next steps from the Clewer Initiative.
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Skills for Care states international recruitment must always be carried out in a legal and ethical manner. Providers need to be supported to recruit staff from abroad in a way that meets the needs of those people when they arrive and are in post.
Find information on:
Or to find out more information, please click here.
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