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Welcome to this bulletin from Leeds Safeguarding Adults Board, we hope that you find the information useful. Please share it with your team. If you haven't already subscribed, please do so, and you will receive future editions direct to your email inbox.
Each year we update our strategic plan, setting out our ambitions and actions.
To develop our latest plan we have heard from people working in organisations across Leeds, and from members of the public. We have done this through meetings and surveys.
Before we finalise the plan, we would like to hear if you agree with the actions we have included, via a short online survey.
We appreciate that people are very busy, and we value your feedback.
Organisations across the city are invited to take part in Leeds Safeguarding Week. It is a fantastic opportunity to showcase the work you do to protect and safeguard people in Leeds, and help raise public awareness about abuse and neglect.
Activities can be anything from a safeguarding themed team meeting, an event for people using your service, to something even bigger, it's entirely up to you.
Tag @LeedsSAB on Twitter or Facebook and tell us what you're planning so that we can help promote your activity or event.
We provide free talks for members of the public about keeping safe from abuse and neglect. Get in touch if you would like to arrange a talk.
People in positions of trust are employees, volunteers or students who work with adults with care and support needs. The work may be paid or unpaid.
Our new guidance:
- Advises employers, volunteer organisations and education establishments of their responsibilities to assess potential risks posed by a person in a
position of trust to those who use their services.
- Explains the circumstances in which a referral can and should be made to Leeds City Council Adult Social Care in relation to concerns about a person in a position of trust.
- Provides guidance on appropriately sharing concerns with an employer, volunteer organisation or education establishment to prevent abuse or neglect.
Many adults and children are reliant on someone else to take them to meetings or appointments about their welfare, care or health, and are sometimes not taken to them. This may mean that a practitioner records them as "Did Not Attend". This phrase implies that the individual themselves is responsible for not attending.
Recording “Was Not Brought” is a more accurate representation of the situation and enables a practitioner to consider the reasons why someone was not brought to an appointment or meeting, the implications for them not having been brought, and assess the potential risks or safeguarding concerns, especially if there is a repeat pattern of non-attendance.
Our new Learning & Development webpage has resources that can support good safeguarding practices within your organisation, including:
- Safeguarding Learning and Development Framework
- Citizen-led practice guidance and short-films about safeguarding adults
- Professional Curiosity guidance
- Managing Difficult Conversations
- People living street-based lives briefing
- Always Care - best practice in Leeds when working with people who self-neglect
Government is updating the Mental Capacity Act - Code of Practice and thinking about new ways of keeping people from being harmed called the Liberty Protection Safeguards.
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 is a law in England and Wales that helps people make their own decisions and says what happens when people don’t have ‘capacity’ (the ability to make their own decisions). Liberty Protection Safeguards are rules to protect people who don’t have capacity.
Government wants to hear the views of people affected by the changes, including people with learning disabilities, carers, and staff.
Local Government Association has provided an update for frontline workers about carers and safeguarding adults. In light of the challenges faced by carers during the pandemic, this briefing is very timely.
It is intended to be used as a practical tool and does not seek to amend or replace existing statutory guidance. The briefing supports improvements in practices for safeguarding adults as well as their carers.
Please share it with your colleagues and teams. The case studies form an excellent opportunity for appropriate professional discussion at team meetings, 1:1s and supervision.
Government has published statutory guidance for heads of safeguarding organisations, and non-statutory guidance for front-line professionals, on forced marriage.
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