Learning Lessons from Safeguarding Adults Reviews 24/25
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Target Group
This course is targeted to adult social care staff and those in residential care, nursing care, home care and supported living settings, personal assistants and other frontline practitioners who have regular contact with service users/patients and their families or carers in the London Borough of Sutton.
Staff Groups A, B, C, D, and E as per the Bournemouth University National Mental Capacity Act Competency Framework.
Level 2 staff and above (ref: NHS Intercollegiate document 2018 - Adult Safeguarding: Roles and Competencies For Healthcare Staff).
AIMS
- The aim of this course is to:
Enable practitioners, in a supportive, non-blaming environment, to understand the key themes emerging from “Safeguarding Adults Reviews” (in Wales these are called “Safeguarding Adults Practice Reviews”).
Participants will also reflect on what the learning means for their practice with service users and their communication and joint working with staff of partner agencies. This session will look at a selection of Reviews from across England and Wales, as well as some Reviews which are more local to Sutton.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course participants will have:
- An increased understanding of the themes emerging from SARs/SAPRs and what these mean for developing individual practice
- An improved knowledge of the different sections of SARs/SAPRs with a view to considering the multi-agency context and the risks to the service user
- An increased understanding of the concept of static and dynamic risks and the protective / mitigating factors within a person’s life and how to balance them
- An increased understanding of the best practice in information sharing and the multi-agency dynamics which can operate to as a barrier to gathering information
- An improved knowledge of how to use supervision effectively to share and analyse risk
- An increased understanding of the inter relationship between the Mental Capacity Act and safeguarding work and how the assumption of capacity and the concept of ‘lifestyle choice’ can detract from understanding the risk of harm
- An improved knowledge of how the ‘Rule of Optimism’ can operate when there are serious risks to service users and understand how to recognise this
- An increased understanding of the importance of ‘professional curiosity’ in all safeguarding work.