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Chair’s Welcome and Introduction
Suzy Braye OBE
Emerita Professor of Social Work
University of Sussex
Co-Author
Analysis of Safeguarding Adult Reviews Findings for Sector Led Improvement
Safeguarding Investigation and Safeguarding Adults Review Learning from National Analysis of Safeguarding Adult Reviews
• learning from the National Analysis of Safeguarding Adults Reviews
• what is working well and areas for improvement
• ensuring the quality markers are used in practice
• SAR governance and decision making
• highlighting good practice and ensuring change
• adult safeguarding during Covid-19: emerging risks and challenges
Learning from Lived Experience: Hearing from people subject to targeted abuse and victimisation
Alison Faulkner
Survivor Researcher in Mental Health
• how people make sense of their experiences; what helps & what hinders
• practitioners’ responses to service users’ views
• recommendations for adult safeguarding
EXTENDED SESSION: Developing your skills in Adult Safeguarding Investigation
Sarah Williams
Solicitor & Independent Safeguarding Consultant
• core skills needed to lead or contribute to an Adult Safeguarding Investigation or review
• understanding and apply the key concepts of evidence, its preservation, interview, MSP and the process of decision making, resolution and recovery, and outcome
• developing skills and knowledge to effectively contribute to and co-ordinate multi-agency response when working with allegations of abuse in respect of protection planning
• the principles, processes and practice skills involved in undertaking ongoing/further enquiries and preparing for the outcome meeting
• investigation techniques to understand what went wrong
• escalating investigations to Safeguarding Adults Reviews