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Friday 23rd February 2024
February 2024 newsletter
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Consultation: Guidance for visiting in care homes, hospitals and hospices
Consultation
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) are consulting on their proposed guidance to help providers and other stakeholders understand and meet the new standards on visiting.
The guidance also sets out what people using health and social care services and their families, friends or advocates can expect.
*You can read the draft guidance for Providers here. [
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Virtual workshop: Radical Safeguarding Toolkit for Homelessness
safeguarding adults
This workshop from Research in Practice shares learning from a new Radical Safeguarding Toolkit for Homelessness. The co-produced toolkit offers a new approach to safeguarding adults experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantages.
Click *here [
] *to reserve a place on a workshop on either *7th March 2024 or 18th April 2024*
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Free Online Event: Wellbeing and Secondary Trauma
Community Care
To mark World Social Work Day, join Community Care and two expert speakers for this free webinar about wellbeing and secondary trauma.
Attend this webinar to: ·
* Understand how to look after your wellbeing in a professional context.
* Learn about the risk of secondary trauma and how it might impact you as a social worker.
* Understand how to mitigate the risk of secondary trauma through healthy practice as opposed to simply “treating” the problem.
* Find out more about SelfCare Psychology’s Five Pillars of Protection model and how it can help you as a social worker, or support your team as a manager.
This webinar is relevant to all social workers and social care professionals, whether working in children’s or adults’ services, and is free to watch live. Community Care Inform subscribers will have access to the recorded version of the webinar, plus a written transcript and additional resources.
Click *here [
] *to sign up to the online event which will take place on *19th March 2024 **12pm-1pm*
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Webinar: Homelessness and Safeguarding
homeless
You are invited to join a webinar organised by the Local Government Association (LGA) where speakers will provide insights, inspirations and challenges to support improvement and change in how people experiencing homelessness are safeguarded, including;
* Recent findings on homelessness from the second National Safeguarding Adults Review analysis
* How ideas from social justice movements can activate improvements to the safeguarding systems around people experiencing homelessness.
The webinar will also include a session from Gill Taylor who will share ideas from the Radical Safeguarding Toolkit - Homelessness, published by Research in Practice "(see above news item)".
This will focus particularly on how ideas from social justice movements can activate improvements to the safeguarding systems around people experiencing homelessness.
Click *here [
] *to reserve your place on the webinar which will take place on *20th March 2024 2-4pm.*
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Missed a CSAB lunch & learn session?
Lunch and learn
Did you miss any of the lunch & learn sessions hosted during National Safeguarding Week?
You can catch up and watch these on our website, links below.
These and other lunch & learn sessions can be used for your continuing professional development or watched in Team Meetings, used to promote reflectiion and discussion.
Click *here* [
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*An Introduction to Safeguarding Adults*
Click *here [
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*Why does Language Matter?* Click *here [
] *to watch the session which describes why language matters and the impact of language used can make.
You can also visit our *'Learning Zone'
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Safeguarding Adult Enquiries - Do you need consent?
Consent
You are encouraged to read the 5 minute briefing published earlier this month which is based on an article published in Community Care.
It is intended to myth bust and provide clarification for practitioners and practice in respect of consent and safeguarding.
Click *here [
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Sexual Abuse of Older People: Hourglass webinar
Hour glass webinar