Safeguarding Adults Week 2021 takes place 15 – 21 November.
It’s an opportunity for organisations to come together to raise awareness of important safeguarding issues. The aim is to highlight safeguarding key issues, facilitate conversations and to raise awareness of safeguarding best practice. So we can all be better together.
Each day we’ll be focusing on a different safeguarding theme to explore how we can create safer cultures. You can learn more about the week’s themes here.
What will be covered over the week?
- Monday – emotional abuse and safeguarding mental health
- Tuesday – the power of language
- Wednesday – digital safeguarding
- Thursday – adult grooming and the Grooming and Exploitation Conference
- Friday – creating safer organisational cultures
- Saturday and Sunday – safeguarding and you
The Ann Craft Trust
The Ann Craft Trust (ACT) is a national charity that exists to minimise the risk of abuse of disabled children and adults at risk. Every year since 2018, ACT hosts Safeguarding Adults Week which enables organisations and individuals to feel confident in recognising signs of abuse and neglect and recording and reporting safeguarding concerns.
This year, the theme was ‘creating safer cultures’, all about how organisations and individuals can take steps to minimise harm occurring in the first instance, while simultaneously ensuring correct policies and procedures are in place so that safeguarding concerns that are raised, are recognised and responded to effectively.
Topics covered included: Emotional Abuse and Safeguarding Mental Health; The Power of Language; Digital Safeguarding; Adult Grooming; Creating Safer Organisational Cultures and Safeguarding and You.
