The 2023 SSAB Annual Conference took place on 02/03/2023. Copies of the presentations can be downloaded below:

A recording of Michael Preston-Shoot’s presentation on Self-Neglect:

 

Emma Lawton: Whose Rights Are We Safeguarding?

Jess Heslop: Making Safeguarding Family Centric

Dr Adi Cooper: How Personal Is Our Safeguarding?

SWAN: Advocacy – Not One Size Fits All

Dimensions: Closed Cultures

Chloe Cox and Rachel Caunce: Helping To Help Ourselves

Amy Rogers and Jess Rogers: Power to the People

The 2019 SSAB Annual Conference took place on 01/05/2019. Copies of the presentations can be downloaded below:

Agenda and Speaker Profiles

David Thornicroft:  Sexual Activity and the Mental Capacity Act

CI Leanne Pook:  FGM – An introduction

Mark Brookes and Andie Gbedemah:  #ImWithSam: tackling learning disability and autism hate crime

Duncan Marrow:  The Mental Capacity Act and Social Media

Chris Hamilton:  Mental Capacity Act

Janet Quinn and Ros Cummings:  Scams:  How you can help your community to stand up against them

Andrew Lloyd:   ‘Street Deaths’ Thematic Review and Streetwise Week of Action

Chris Hamilton:  from DoLS to Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS)

Mel Thomson and Suzanne Harris:  Domestic AbuseCoercion and Control Within Relationships

The 2018 SSAB Annual Conference took place on 09/03/2018. Copies of the presentations can be downloaded below:

Financial Scamming:  Professor Keith Brown’s presentation on financial scam prevention for vulnerable adults

Further resources on financial scamming

Dr Margaret Flynn’s presentation on learning from the Mendip House Safeguarding Adults Review

Chris Hamilton’s presentation on the Mental Capacity Act

Paul Coles and Holly Stockdale’s presentation on safeguarding enquiries in care homes

Chief Inspector Mark Edgington’s presentation on modern slavery

Detective Chief Inspector Ray Hulin and Lucy Macready’s presentation on county lines and cuckooing

Lucy Watson and Glen Salisbury’s presentation on sexual exploitation – lessons for adult services

Headway’s first presentation on safeguarding people with acquired brain injuries (includes link to media clip)

Headway’s second presentation on safeguarding people with acquired brain injuries

Stop Adult Abuse Week 2023 took place between 20th – 24th November. The five areas hosted a series of online learning events, these were free to access for any practitioner working with adults and families across Bristol, Somerset, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire and BANES during the week-long campaign.

The theme of conference was ‘Safeguarding Yourself and Others’.