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This conference focuses on Safeguarding Older Adults from Abuse and Neglect. The conference will focus on good practice principles and will include case studies focusing on user involvement, safeguarding people with dementia, self neglect and hoarding, domestic abuse and sexual violence, substance misuse and financial abuse. Expert sessions will also revisit safeguarding under the Care Act, Safeguarding leadership including compassion and empathy, user involvement in safeguarding and ensuring service improvement.
“One in six older people are victims of abuse every single year.”
“Safeguarding isn’t easy, but its effectiveness is its own reward if more lives can be saved and freed from the blight of abuse, neglect and organisational negligence. As practitioners, your empathy, compassion and experience have never been more needed.”
“Continuous professional development in safeguarding practice is essential if we are to serve individuals, families, and communities well. The recently published Revisiting safeguarding practice will support local authority social workers to refresh their knowledge and understanding of their roles and responsibilities in responding to enquiries and concerns… Maintaining best quality practice and consistency of application, to support people to lead safer, happier and more fulfilled lives, is our relentless ambition.”
“An estimated half a million older people are harmed, abused, and neglected every day in their own homes by people they thought they could trust.”
This conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to improve older adult safeguarding practice
- Understand the national and legal context of your safeguarding practice
- Reflect on the reality of abuse of older people and learn from a lived experience perspective
- Develop a strengths-based approaches
- Implement the good practice principles outlined in the 2022 National Guidance ‘Revisiting Safeguarding Practice’
- Reflect on the implications of the covid pandemic for safeguarding older people
- Learn from best practice in supporting people living with dementia to be involved in adult safeguarding enquiries
- Better involve older people in adult safeguarding: user involvement and person centred care
- Develop your skills in managing Domestic Violence, Sexual Abuse & Coercive Control
- Apply best practice safeguarding principles to Self Neglect and Hoarding
- Ensure an inclusive and accessible servic
- Learn how you can improve safeguarding involving substance misuse in older people
- Develop strategies for identifying and preventing financial abuse
- Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes