News & Events

20th November 2023 - 26th November 2023

The series of events organised this year is an excellent opportunity for learning and professional development in the field of adult safeguarding.

Please find the details below:

• Monday, 20 Nov, 12:00-13:30: What’s My Role in Safeguarding Adults? Registration
• Tuesday, 21 Nov, 12:00-13:00: Organisations Working Together: Community Safety: Registration
• Wednesday, 22 Nov, 10:00-13:00: Main London Safeguarding Adults Conference - Key Topics Include:
  Registration
  Building Safe Organisations and Cultures
  Making Safeguarding Personal
  Effective Co-production
  Insights from the London Safeguarding Voices Group
  Panel Discussion & Q&A
• Thursday, 23 Nov, 12:00-13:00: Adopting a Trauma-Informed Approach to Safeguarding Adults: Registration
• Friday, 24 Nov, 12:00-13:00: Insights from Safeguarding Adults Reviews: Registration

Come to our conference where you can learn about Cuckooing, Fire Safety and Self-advocacy.

• There will be a drama about Cuckooing.  Cuckooing is when someone takes over your home to use it for carrying out crime.  The police will also talk about how to keep yourself safe.
• We will talk about fire safety in your home.
• We will hear about self-advocacy.  This is when you take control of your own decisions about what you want or need.
• We will talk about Making Safeguarding Personal 

United Nations World Elder Abuse Awareness Day – 15 June 2023

The UN predicts that between 2019 and 2030, the number of persons aged 60 years or over is projected to grow by 38%, from 1 billion to 1.4 billion. This means globally people aged over 60 will outnumber youth, and this increase will be the greatest and the most rapid in the developing world. The UN is urging greater attention be paid to the specific challenges affecting older persons, including in the field of human rights.

Read more about how the UN aims to define, detect and address elder abuse within cultural contexts and culturally specific risk factors.

On the 15th of June we will be uniting with many others on World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, to raise awareness of elder abuse - a very serious issue that affects almost all older people at some point in their lives.

Visit www.ageuk.org.uk and World Elder Abuse Awareness – Building Strong Support for Elders to find out more.

Fiona Bateman, the Chair of the Islington Safeguarding Adults Board, and highly regarded expert in safegaurding adults, is delivering a briefing session as part of National Safeguarding Adults week on 'Combatting Closed Cultures'. 

Find out more about how closed cultures in health and social care organisations are linked to greater risk of harm to patients and residents.  Fiona Bateman will outline some of the practical steps practitioners and organisations can take towards encouraging and adopting more open cultures. 

Sign up