Safeguarding Adults Awareness Week: 18 – 22 November – nationwide
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Safeguarding Adults Awareness Week: 18 – 22 November – nationwide
Safeguarding leads across South East London have developed a programme of events for the 2024 Safeguarding Adults Awareness Week.
Throughout November there will be a range of learning events on offer, including:
- Think Family in an Adult Mental Health Context
- Complex Case pathway awareness
- Drug and Alcohol Awareness training
- Loneliness and the Impact on Safeguarding
- FGM training
Safeguarding Adults Awareness Week 2024
18-22 November 2024
The Kent and Medway Safeguarding Adults Board is supporting the 2024 National Safeguarding Adults Awareness Week, hosted by the Ann Craft Trust.
The week aims to raise awareness on the different types of abuse or neglect and how concerns can be reported. We all have a responsibility to look after each other, but some people don’t report their concerns because they don’t know the key signs, feel it isn’t their business or don’t know who they should talk to. The result is that councils, health providers and other organisations miss out on important information that could help them protect adults from exploitation and abuse. By working together with Kent’s many organisations, we aim to empower members of the public to act when they are worried about the welfare of another person.
Types of abuse
Adults can be at risk of different types of abuse and it can happen anywhere. This could be an adult neglecting themselves, or when someone else treats them in a way that harms or hurts them. It can happen once or on multiple occasions, people who abuse are not always strangers, they can also be partners, relatives, a friend, neighbour, or carer.
Read more about the different types of abuse
The week will be focusing on how you can prioritise the welfare and wellbeing of yourself and others.
As part of the Board’s communication strategy, members are required to raise awareness and focus for prevention and work in collaboration with both statutory and non-statutory organisations who can influence and instigate meaningful change. To do this successfully, members are reliant on all agencies who have a role in caring for adults at risk or working in the health and social care sector (statutory, voluntary, charity or private) to help share these important messages.
Get involved!
The key messages to members of the public on how to recognise abuse and report concerns are important.
Please share your concerns with your GP surgery and make appointment if necessary, or speak to social prescriber in the surgery. Lots of appointments are available for the same.
Don’t delay, act today!