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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 colleagues. If you haven't already, please subscribe and you will receive future editions direct to your email inbox.
In July's bulletin we promoted our Annual Report. We appreciate that many of you may not have time to read the full report, so some of our Board members have made a short film about our work to help keep people safe from abuse and neglect, and our future projects.
Hosted by Ann Craft Trust, National Safeguarding Adults Week 2022 is a time for organisations to come together and raise awareness of important safeguarding issues. This year's theme is ‘Responding to Contemporary Safeguarding Challenges’. Each day will focus on a different theme.
Ideas about how you can support the week, free resources and information about training are available on the Ann Craft Trust website.
The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) has launched a Regional Safeguarding Outreach service, to work more closely with organisations to build and develop relationships, raise awareness of DBS as a safeguarding body and to act as a single point of contact for all DBS related enquiries within their region.
The Regional Outreach Adviser for Yorkshire & The Humber is Rebecca Bool Email: Rebecca.Bool@dbs.gov.uk
Please get in touch for bespoke support, including;
- Questions about DBS checks, eligibility and regulated activity
- Support with making barring referrals and the “legal duty to refer”
- Delivery of training and workshops directly to your team or network
- Support for your training programmes that require DBS information
- Provide feedback so they can improve their DBS products and services
White Ribbon UK engages with men and boys to end violence against women and girls. Their aim is to change harmful attitudes, systems and behaviours around masculinity that perpetuate gender inequality and men’s violence against women.
Please visit White Ribbon UK's website to find out more about their work and how you can support White Ribbon Day.
The Home Office's Domestic Abuse Statutory Guidance is designed to support organisations to identify and respond to domestic abuse and promote best practice.
Domestic abuse takes many forms. Some abusers repeatedly dictate their partner’s choices and everyday actions, and may restrict how they acquire, use and maintain money and economic resources such as housing, food and transport.
Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) is a UK charity dedicated to raising awareness of economic abuse and transforming responses to it. Their toolkit is designed to support you to identify whether someone you are working with is experiencing this form of abuse.
The Home Office's new videos with British Sign Language set out UK government guidance on forced marriage. Content includes:
- Statutory guidance for organisations with responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults
- Multi-agency practice guidelines for frontline workers on handling cases of forced marriage
This briefing is produced by the Local Government Association. It forms part of a larger piece of work, activities and resources, to gain a better understanding of discriminatory abuse, how to recognise equality characteristics, unconscious bias and discrimination in safeguarding adults practice, approaches and strategies.
From 1 July 2022, all registered health and social care providers must ensure that their staff receive training in learning disability and autism, including how to interact appropriately with autistic people and people who have a learning disability.
If you work with victims of scams, in a voluntary or a paid role, you may be interested in free E-Learning from the National Trading Standards Scams Team.
The Home Office's updated guidance on fire safety provides practical advice and tips to help protect disabled people from the risk of fire.
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