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Please note that this is the latest version of the newsletter (November 2024).
The board is developing an itinerary for the upcoming Safeguarding Adults Week, based on the Ann Craft Trust themes for 2024. Throughout the week, we aim to explore how the NSAB collaborates as a partnership to embed professional curiosity, enhance our listening skills, establish professional boundaries, recognise exploitation, and learn from these experiences as an organisation. These themes will encourage the board to consider how we can improve collaboration with partner agencies to foster safer cultures within our workplaces and communities.
Below is a copy of the board's Safeguarding Adults Week Planner and some links provided by the Ann Craft Trust to initiate vital conversations in the lead-up to the week.
11 Ways to Make The Most of Safeguarding Adults Week 2024 - Ann Craft Trust
Safeguarding Adults Week 2024 - Links, Resources, and More - Ann Craft Trust
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Monday 18 November Professional Curiosity
Understanding 'Professional Curiosity' is key. It is a critical practice mindset and communication skill that involves exploring and understanding situations by asking questions and maintaining an open mind. It is about managing risk and safety, knowing when to act, and not making assumptions. In safeguarding, professional curiosity is essential for keeping children and adults safe. It involves using skills and knowledge to recognise when further investigation is needed, looking, listening, asking direct questions, and holding difficult conversations.
These online seven minute briefings are designed to provide a short and concise overview a safeguarding topic. These sessions are aimed at non-social care professionals who still have a large part to play in preventing and reporting abuse and neglect in Nottinghamshire.
We look forward to your attendance to contribute and reflect on the briefing.
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Tuesday 19 November
NSAB partnership event Professional Curiosity
The partnership event is intended for professionals and will continue the focus on professional curiosity. This has been a key theme identified in recent safeguarding adult reviews and we are excited to welcome Dr Ana Anka (University of East Anglia) to provide insights into the academic understanding of this topic. Further guest presenters from the Clinical teams at Doncaster Bassetlaw Hospital Trust will also look at case examples of effective use of professional curiosity to provide better outcomes to high intensity users in A&E. The event will conclude with Equation providing learning about professional curiosity from recent Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews.
In the afternoon, there will be a special seven minute briefing on Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) presented by the board.
MSP is an approach to safeguarding adults which supports a person-centred, outcome-focus to empower people in the safeguarding intervention. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your safeguarding knowledge and practices! For more supportive information to enable involvement, please refer to the documents below:
makingsafeguardingpersonal.pdf
SafeguardingAdultsEasyReadGuide20160203
Wednesday 20 November
10am to 10:45am SAB’s & Sporting Institutions
The NSAB Independent Chair, Scott Mackechnie, will deliver a keynote address on the role of Safeguarding Adults Boards (SABs) within sporting institutions. For more details, please go to Safeguarding Adults Week 2024 - Links, Resources, and More - Ann Craft Trust
Thursday 21 November
Jane Palling will lead a session on the Serac Modern Day Slavery/Trauma Informed approach.
12:00pm to 12:45pm Slavery and Exploitation Risk Assessment Conference (SERAC)
This webinar is being delivered by Jane Paling, the Slavery and Exploitation Team Manager at Nottingham City Council and will give an overview of the Nottingham City/ County SERAC which is currently the only one in the Country.
Join the meeting now
Meeting ID: 339 998 522 90
Passcode: kBn8vP
If you work with the adult workforce with people who require care and support, you will know how important it is to apply for the right level of DBS checks for staff working with vulnerable adults.
Elizabeth Whitingham will touch on certain objectives within the workshop, please see below:
9.30am to 11.30am DBS Disclosure part 1 Workshop
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Disclosure session will cover:
- The benefits of DBS and you (organisation) working together
- The different levels of DBS checks
- Understand when an employee is eligible for a check
- Regulated Activity - Children and Adults
- DBS Update Service
- Have an understanding of what safe recruitment practices can be in place that DBS checks can form a part of.
1pm to 3pm DBS Barring part 2 Workshop
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Barring session will cover:
- Overview of the different routes DBS receive referrals
- Understanding Regulated Activity / Relevant Conduct and Harm Test
- When a DBS Barring referral should be made, including when there may be a legal duty to refer
- How to make a referral and what a good quality referral looks like
- DBS Process when a referral is received
- The consequences of not making appropriate barring referrals and the consequences of being included in one or both Barred Lists
- Understand the benefits of DBS and your organisation working together
- Understand the different levels of DBS checks
- Understand the filtering guidelines
- Understand when an employee is eligible for a check
- Understand the DBS Update Service
- Understand what Regulated Activity is
Email: Elizabeth.Whittington@dbs.gov.uk or DBSRegionaloutreach@dbs.gov.uk
To support discussions within your teams & raise awareness. Here is the link for the Exploitation: Perception vs Reality briefing: exploitation.pdf (nottinghamshire.gov.uk) to support discussions within your teams & raise awareness.
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Friday 22 November
A presentation followed by a seven minute briefing will be provided by the NSAB, focusing on Transitional safeguarding with people moving from children’s services to adults. It describes current practices and thinking to enable reflection by professionals. Transitional safeguarding is more than just better transition planning; it requires a wholly needs-led and personalised understanding and approach to transition. It is reflective of a growing understanding of young people's maturation journey, particularly for those with complex needs and vulnerabilities.
Advocacy
10am to 10:45am
This webinar is being delivered by POhWER Advocacy and will look at the role advocacy plays in ensuring people are supported.
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Meeting ID: 366 096 356 070
Passcode: dVJEz6
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