ABOUT THE SAFEGUARDING ADULTS FORUM
Making Connections is an established training company offering training and consultancy to the statutory, independent and voluntary sector.
As specialist providers in safeguarding adults work, Making Connections have developed a Safeguarding Adults Forum, which contains:
- discussion forum
- research
- resources
- articles
- practice guides
to assist practitioners across all agencies.
Our aim is to provide a discussion forum for practitioners to:-
- share examples of good practice
- comment on current developments in safeguarding adults work
- reflect on key challenges from a practitioner perspective
This Forum is free at the point of access to all visitors and our thanks go to all the organisations who have already sponsored this forum to enable it to be accessible to all.
Let us know what you think about the forum?
What else would you like to see here?
Are you looking for a document? - Ask us and we may be able to find it for you!
To send your suggestions and feedback or ask a question, just go to the 'Website Suggestions and Feedback' section of the Forum and send a post or click here.
How to use the discussion Forum?
You can use the discussion forum to:
Share examples of good practice with others
Ask for information, for example, what role do Banks play in keeping adults safe from financial abuse? Or, has anyone got any useful tips about engaging with the DWP?
Share an anon example of how someone was supported/kept safe from abuse through effective joint working or use of legislation
Share examples of the work you are doing in your organisation to keep people safe from abuse
Share documents/templates with others
Suggest useful websites
Advertise a safeguarding event.
NEW for members of the Safeguarding Adults Forum, e-mail notification in your field of interest. Please take this opportunity to sign up to your areas of interest, this will ensure that you get more targeted and relevant updates from us.
At a time when this agenda is moving so fast, it can be difficult for practitioners to find the time to surf the internet and keep up to date with the current developments and best practice in safeguarding adults, so a central point of access via the Forum does this work for you.
SPONSORSHIP
We continue to seek support in this venture and are looking for sponsorship of the Safeguarding Adults Forum.
Interested in sponsoring this Forum?
What do you get as a sponsor?
- You get the opportunity to support the work of practitioners within your area or organisation, who are working to safeguard adults from abuse by providing them with up-to-date resources and a chance to share good practice
- All sponsors will be mentioned in this site and we will provide a link to your website and to the safeguarding information on your site
- The site will be regularly managed, monitored and maintained by Making Connections, so there's nothing else that you need to do
We hope that you will consider sponsoring this Forum as we believe that this will provide a much needed resource for everyone working to ensure that all adults receive the appropriate and professional safeguarding responses.
If you are interested in sponsoring this Forum then please contact Jane Hughes or Louise Lamb at Making Connections on enquiry@making-connections.co.uk
What Is In The News?
Registration with the Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS) will be halted to allow the government to remodel the scheme back to proportionate, common sense levels, it was announced today, please follow the link below. A full public inquiry into the appalling failings in patient care at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust was announced today by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley. Many of these failings were forms of abuse experienced by patients and witnessed by family carers. The question is... where were the safeguarding responses by the LA in line with their responsibilities under No Secrets? Who is there to provide answers, apologies, redress to the patients and their carers? To read the full report please click here.
Disability Harassment Inquiry - Launch of Call for Evidence
On 14 June 2010, the Commission formally launched an Inquiry into
disability-related harassment.
Through this Inquiry, the Commission will look at the actions of public
authorities and public transport providers to eliminate disability-related harassment and its causes.
For more information and to submit evidence follow the link below...
Court change Consultation papers containing proposals for change and new policies, which invite the public to comment within a given time period. Click here to view the full document.
The Equality Bill received Royal Assent on the 8th of April and formally became The Equality Act 2010, please follow the link to view the Bill.
Integrating clinical governance and adult safeguarding in the NHS. This guidance has been produced as a result of the findings from the No Secrets consultation which highlighted that safeguarding was underdeveloped in the NHS. To read the full document please follow this link
Disability Hate Crime – Myth or Reality? - Family kept a disabled man as a slave so they could torture him and steal his benefit money before they murdered him and dumped his headless body in a lake, a court has heard. for more information please go to the Hate Crime Forum.
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