National Safeguarding Adults Week 2024

***More information about National Safeguarding Adults Week 2025 and what is happening throughout the week is available at https://www.tsab.org.uk/national-safeguarding-adults-week-2025/***

National Safeguarding Adults Week (NSAW) is a time when organisations come together to raise awareness of important safeguarding issues. The campaign is led by Ann Craft Trust and the overarching theme for 2024 is Working in Partnership.

The campaign will take place between 18th to 22nd November 2024.

How can you take part?

What can you do to help protect adults at risk of abuse and neglect?

Below you will find information and resources to support with the campaign.

The Ann Craft Trust also have free resources for you to access as well as online sessions that you can attend.

“Professional curiosity is where a practitioner proactively recognises and asks questions to try to understand what is happening within a particular institution, family or for an individual, rather than making assumptions or taking a single source of information and accepting it at face value.  

To achieve safer cultures and communities, practitioners and members of the community should be professionally curious. This involves looking, listening, asking direct questions and reflecting on ALL of the information received. We need to be recognising signs that harm could be occurring, asking questions to learn more about what is happening and talking to others within and outside of our organisational context, where necessary, to follow-up concerns.” 

On this day you can:

“‘Making Safeguarding Personal’. ‘Person-centred practice’. ‘Co-production’. Each of these approaches focuses on working in partnership with people who use services.

On this day, we will explore how we can embed these approaches successfully in our service design and everyday practices. We are encouraging organisations to share challenges and successes about how to effectively partner with the people they support.”

Today you can:

“Developing good quality relationships are important across all organisations and communities. Professional boundaries help us to understand what good quality relationships look like both within and outside of work. Thinking about professional boundaries encourages us to establish clear foundations about the nature of working relationships from the outset.  

On this day, we are encouraging people to think about what appropriate professional boundaries look like in your sector, organisation or community. What power imbalances exist that could impact professional working relationships? What could be the signs that professional boundaries are being blurred and how should you respond if you are concerned? 

Professional boundaries can also go beyond our relationships with colleagues or service users and include boundaries between our work and home life. We will also be exploring what good practice looks like in transitioning from work to home life.” 

Today you can:

Criminal exploitation is the deliberate abuse of power and control over another person. It is taking advantage of another person or situation for criminal purposes or personal gain. Criminal exploitation could also include other forms of harm and abuse such as modern slavery, sexual exploitation or cuckooing. 

On this day, we want to encourage people to think about how they would work together to recognise the signs of criminal exploitation and how to respond.  Specifically, we will be focusing on how practitioners can spot the signs and respond to people with learning disabilities who are subjected to criminal exploitation.  

Today you can:

Find our more about TSAB’s Adult Sexual Exploitation Toolkit:

Complete some E-Learning:

All e-learning can be accessed for free via our website. Courses linked to exploitation include:

  • Adult Sexual Exploitation
  • Criminal Exploitation and Country Lines
  • Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery

Watch and share TSAB’s animations:

Further Resources:

Carers Rights Day

Every day, 12,000 people become unpaid carers for a partner, family member or a friend – many of whom don’t see themselves as carers, often unaware of their legal rights and what they’re entitled to in terms of support and benefits. As a carer, knowing your rights empowers you with information about what you’re entitled to.

Today you can:

To effectively safeguard adults and establish safer cultures, it is important for organisations and individuals to be engaged in a process of continual learning and development.  

On this day, we want to encourage organisations and individuals to reflect on their practice. What have been the successes and the challenges in safeguarding adults? What work do we still have to do and how can we continue to extend our learning? 

There are a variety of free resources available on the TSAB website to support with Professional and Organisational Learning.

Today you can:

Today TSAB also relaunch their Self-Neglect Policy and Guidance, you can:

Webinars – Bookings have now closed.

Monday 18th November

10:30- 12:00pm How to enable a professionally curious workforce (for managers only) – (hosted by TSAB)

1:30pm – 3:00pm Professional curiosity – What does it really mean and how to be curious in your work? – (hosted by TSAB)

Tuesday 19th November

11:00am – 12:30pm Autism and Suicidality: Evidence and Best Practice (hosted by TSAB)

Wednesday 20th November

2:00pm – 2:45pm Building Resilience Against Fraud – Navigating Financial Abuse & Scams (hosted by TSAB, available to the North East Region)

Thursday 21st November

2:00pm – 3:00pm The role of Cleveland Police Complex Exploitation Team and Cuckooing – what to look out for.

Workshops held by Newcastle Safeguarding Adults Board:

1:00pm – 2:00pm Adults at Risk of Exploitation Research (hosted by Newcastle Safeguarding Adults Board)

2:00pm – 3:00pm Language and Victim Blaming (hosted by Newcastle Safeguarding Adults Board)

Monday

1:30pm – 2:45pm Ann Craft Trust AGM & Safeguarding Seminar – Sense on Understanding Consent and Choice. 

Tuesday

10:00am – 11:00am Camphill Village Trust & The Voice of Lived Experience (hosted by Ann Craft Trust)

1:30pm – 2:30pm Understanding Professional Boundaries. (hosted by Ann Craft Trust)

Thursday

10:00am – 11:00am Understanding County Lines (hosted by Ann Craft Trust)

12:30pm – 1:30pm Evidencing Links Between Cognitive Impairment & Exploitation (hosted by Ann Craft Trust)

Friday

10am – 11am Mental Health and Wellbeing in Sport With Sport Wales (hosted by Ann Craft Trust)

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National Safeguarding Adults Week 2024 Campaign Poster