CSAB Commitment to Carers Webinar

CSAB have created a webinar developed in response to learning from Safeguarding Adult Review’s. The webinar helps to raise awareness of how carers can be best supported and highlights the challenges faced by carers. Thanks and acknowledgment to colleagues from NHS England for sharing the content for this webinar.

If you would like to access any of the links referred to during the webinar, please click here. For additional resources for carers and carers assessments, please click here to be redirected to our Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board website. 

Transitional Safeguarding & Exploitation Lunch & Learn recording

Transitional safeguarding is an approach that involves children and adult services working together in recognising that the needs of young people do not change or stop when they reach 18, although the legislation, thresholds, and services supporting them often do.

Thanks are extended to colleagues from Safeguarding Teams in Cumbria who presented a lunch & learn session to officially launch the Transitional Safeguarding & Exploitation procedure developed in collaboration with Cumbria Safeguarding Children's Partnership. You can watch the recording here.

Cumbria's Transitional Safeguarding & Exploitation procedure was developed in response to recommendations from the Kate SAR.  You can read the Learning Brief from the Kate SAR here.

SAR Poppy; book now for the lunch & learn session

CSAB recently published SAR Poppy. Poppy was a 65-year-old white British woman who died in December 2022 and had a history of poorly managed Diabetes resulting in frequent hospital admissions. Poppy was assessed as having mental capacity to make decisions about her physical health conditions and there were concerns about self-neglect in the context of failing to care for her health.

If you would like to read more information on Poppy's SAR report, please click here or if you would like to read the Learning brief ahead of the lunch and learn, please click here. 

When: Tuesday 25th March 2025, 12noon - 1pm.

Where: via Microsoft Teams.

Please click here to book your free place. 

CSAB 'Learning Zone'

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. 

The "Learning Zone" 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.

Cumberland Council and Westmorland & Furness Council, in partnership with SafeLives, are offering the training opportunity to complete ‘Responding Well’ Domestic Abuse Training. This has been agreed as the consistent, baseline DA Awareness across Cumbria.

These face-to-face training sessions are free to all professionals and the sessions will last a full day. To book a free place on any of these training sessions, please click here.

Important Information - Police Officers/staff need not attend as Cumbria Constabulary have their own DA Matters Training

If you have any queries regarding the training or you are having issues with booking, please contact either: mary-claire.telford@cumberland.gov.uk or alison.goodfellow@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk

The Care Act 2014 was a landmark piece of legislation intended to change adult social care. It consolidated existing law relating to adults with care needs, emphasised the importance of well-being and addressed the support needs of carers for the first time. 

In a podcast, Sherrelle Parke talks about the act with Phillip Anderson from the National Children’s Bureau and Gerry Nosowska the former chair of the British Association of Social Workers. They explore its development, delivery and unrealised potential. In a new blog, Phillip reflects on his involvement with the creation of the act and shares his thoughts on its ambitions.

Ten years of the Care Act and beyond: Adults Partnership Conference

This years’ Research in Practice Adults Partnership Conference will explore the impact of the Care Act 2014 ten years after its implementation. 

The Partnership Conference is aimed at all professionals working in adult social care from across the Research in Practice Partner network, including Heads of Service, practice leaders, workforce development leaders, team managers and practitioners. 

Join Every life Matters at Rheged for a day of inspirational speakers and workshops aimed at giving participants practical skills, knowledge and resources to help join in the fight to prevent suicide to help create a Suicide Safer Cumbria.

Where: Rheged Centre, Redhills, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 0DQ

When: Thursday, 4rd April 2025, 8:30am - 4:30pm

Costs: £95 Private Sector / £75 Charity, Community and Public Sectors. Please click here to book a ticket. 

With funding from the Office for Health Inequalities and Disparities via both Westmorland & Furness and Cumberland councils, CADAS are offering specific support to people in Cumbria who have been bereaved by addiction.

The project will offer those bereaved by addiction access to:

• A mixture of face to face and virtual peer support groups across the county
• 1-1 Bio-Psychosocial Interventions with a Recovery Coach
• Depending on whether they are experiencing addiction themselves or are an affected other, they will be able to access existing peer support groups in addition

For further details, please click here to access the briefing note and click here to access the poster.

Clare Fuller talks with Alex Ruck Keene KC on her podcast to discuss what the law tells us about the Mental Capacity Act & Best Interests.

To listen to the Advanced Care Planning podcast and for additional resources, please click here.

For those supporting people who have Down’s syndrome, the Down's Syndrome Association's new pain resource suggests ways to help them communicate and identify pain and offers strategies to deal with that pain and where to seek medical advice.

For more information, please click here. 

NHS England have a new easy read newsletter.

Some of the things NHS England talk about is:

• What is LeDeR and why is it important.
• Diabetes and health.
• Care passports.
  

Please click here to find out more and to complete the NHS feedback form.