Dear Colleagues

Safeguarding Adults Board Communication

 

 

Alcohol Awareness Week – 1-7 July 2024

 

 

Alcohol Awareness Week is a chance for everyone to get thinking about drinking. It’s a week of awareness-raising, campaigning for change, and more. This year’s theme is ‘Understanding alcohol harm.’

Alcohol can sometimes play a centre-stage role in our lives. It’s there when we celebrate, commiserate and when we’re just trying to cope. Yet alcohol is harming our health and wellbeing on a daily basis, from the quality of the sleep we’re getting, to our relationships with those we love.

In April, the Office for National Statistics released the latest figures which showed that 10,048 people died from alcohol in 2022 in the UK. This is a staggering 32.8% increase since pre-pandemic 2019. The number recorded in 2022 was 4.2% higher than in 2021 and 32.8% higher than in 2019.

Alcohol never impacts people in isolation, so this Alcohol Awareness Week will focus on exploring exactly what is meant by ‘alcohol harm’ and challenging the stereotype of alcohol as an ‘individual’s problem.’ Let’s get talking about the role that alcohol plays in our society, and what it means to families, communities, health workers, and those in our emergency services.

For more information about this year’s Alcohol Awareness Week and to access campaign resources, please visit: About Alcohol Awareness Week | Alcohol Change UK

To access the latest alcohol-related statistics, please visit: Alcohol-specific deaths in the UK – Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

Co-production Week – 1-5 July 2024

Monday 1st July marks the start of Co-production Week 2024, a celebration of the power of co-production to design and develop better ways of doing things in social care, hosted by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).

This year’s theme ‘Co-production: What’s missing?’ invites us to look at the need to go beyond familiar voices and increase equity and diversity in co-production, think about how we can access better training and development, and have clear definitions and language around co-production. We will also be thinking about how to show the impact and difference co-production makes, and how we can make a good business case for it.

As part of the Co-production Week, SCIE is hosting a number of online events with guest speakers and workshops, highlighting co-production in action, as well as tools to show the difference co-production makes.

For more information about the SCIE’s Co-production Week, please visit: National Co-production Week 2024 – SCIE

 

Supporting safer visiting in care homes during infectious illness outbreaks – UKHSA guidance

UKHSA has recently published a new guidance ‘Supporting visiting in care homes during infectious illness outbreaks,’ which covers the principles to support decision making for those involved in safely planning and protecting visiting during outbreaks of infectious illness, in adult social care.

This recently published guidance accompanies the new legislation on visiting and accompanying in care homes, hospitals and hospices. It aims to provide clarity to health protection teams, community infection control teams, and care home managers and providers who have responsibility for implementing outbreak management measures in adult social care homes.

To access the guidance, please visit: Supporting safer visiting in care homes during infectious illness outbreaks – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

For more information about legislation relating to visiting and accompanying in care homes, hospitals and hospices, please visit: Regulation 9A: Visiting and accompanying in care homes, hospitals and hospices – Care Quality Commission (cqc.org.uk)

 

Public Health training opportunities – Book your FREE space now!

Suicide prevention overview tutorial – Tuesday 2nd July 2024, 9:30am-11am, online

 

Learning objectives:

• To understand the prevalence and impact of suicide
• To explore the language and the challenges, when talking openly about suicide
• To recognise the ‘signs’ that may indicate someone is having thoughts of suicide
• To consider how we can all contribute to a suicide safer community

For more information about this training and to book your FREE space, please visit: YH: SPOT North Lincolnshire | Papyrus (papyrus-uk.org)

Alternatively, please refer to the leaflet attached in this email.

 

 

Level 2 award in understanding the misuse of substances – Monday 8th July 2024, 9:30am-4:30pm, Scunthorpe Central, Carlton Street, Scunthorpe, DN15 6TX

Learning objectives:

• Understand factors that result in people misusing substances
• Understand the personal and social consequences of substance misuse
• Know how to provide help and support to the individual with regards to substance misuse

For more information about this training and to book your FREE space, please visit: Book now – Level 2 Award in Understanding the Misuse of Substances – Scunthorpe Central (tickettailor.com)

Alternatively, please refer to the leaflet attached in this email.

Basic trauma-informed care training

• Wednesday 17th July, 9:15am-12:30pm,  Crosby ONE, Digby Street, Scunthorpe DN15 7LU
• Friday 4th October 2024, 9:15am-12:30pm, Ashby Community Hub, Scunthorpe, DN16 2UT
• Friday 6th December 2024, 9:15am-12:30pm, Ashby Community Hub, Scunthorpe, DN16 2UT

Each session will cover:

• Trauma and it’s impact on the life of a child
• Stress and trauma
• Complex developmental trauma
• The global effects of fear
• Exploring attachments
• Self-regulation and sensory processing
• Resilience and tools
• Felt safety
• Self-care
• Modifying overwhelming emotions

For more information about this training and to book your FREE space, please visit: Metanoia Training and Consultancy – Sign Up (metanoia-training.com)

Alternatively, please refer to the leaflet attached in this email.

To access the full training brochure, please visit: Public Health North Lincolnshire Training Brochure June-December 2024 (cloud.microsoft)

If you have any questions about the Public Health training, please email: adam.brown@northlincs.gov.uk

 

Reasonable adjustment digital flag – FREE e-learning

By law (the Equality Act 2010) all people who have a disability or impairment are entitled to reasonable adjustments. Without these adjustments, people with disabilities may not have equitable and fair access to care and support services.

The aim of this NHS e-learning session is to introduce the ‘Reasonable adjustment digital flag’ and how this can be used to address some of the significant health inequalities experienced by people living with a disability or impairment. The anticipated length of the session is 30 to 60 minutes.

The aims of this e-learning are:

• To improve understanding of the ethical needs and legal requirements of anticipating and implementing person-centred reasonable adjustments for all those people who have a disability or significant impairment
• To lead to all staff identifying, recording, flagging, sharing, and meeting people’s reasonable adjustment needs, so that this becomes business as usual
• To explain how the ‘Reasonable adjustment digital flag’ can help you make a real difference to the lives of disabled people

To access the e-learning, please visit: Reasonable Adjustment Digital Flag – elearning for healthcare (e-lfh.org.uk)

 

Gambling related harms in Humberside: A community event – Book your FREE space now!

GamCare Yorkshire and Humber are hosting an event designed to bring together local organisations, services, and community members to address the critical issue of gambling-related harms in our region.

The event will take place on Wednesday 17th July 2024, 10am-3pm, at Jubilee Central, 62 King Edward Street, Hull, HU1 3SQ.

The event will feature:

• Networking opportunities – connect with fellow organisations and services committed to supporting our community
• Lived experience speakers – hear powerful stories from individuals who have faced and overcome gambling-related harm
• Refreshments and food – enjoy complimentary refreshments and food as you engage in meaningful conversations

For more information about the event and to book your FREE space, please visit: Gambling Related Harms in Humberside: A Community Event Tickets, Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite

 

Partner high-risk fire awareness training by Humberside Fire and Rescue Service – Book your FREE space now!

Humberside Fire and Rescue Service is hosting a number of online training sessions aimed at increasing awareness and understanding of fire risk in relation to emollients, medical oxygen, air flow products, and hoarding.

For more information about the training and to book your FREE space, please visit: Humberside Fire and Rescue Service Events – 25 Upcoming Activities and Tickets | Eventbrite

For more useful information and resources about safeguarding adults, please visit the NLSAB website www.northlincssab.co.uk

Please disseminate widely across your organisation.

Domestic Abuse Partnership Board Communication

 

Preventing domestic abuse related homicides and suicides – Learning lessons from ‘near-miss’ cases

In 2022, Monckton-Smith et al. conducted a study with practitioners involved in managing responses to domestic abuse to understand the steps that they took to prevent homicide and/or suicide in so-called ‘near miss’ cases. The study findings discovered a number of themes which are particularly important when preventing domestic abuse related homicides and suicides.

Advocacy relating to safety management was the single most dominant theme, linked to effective offender management, victim engagement, risk management, and positive outcomes.

Another crucial theme related to good knowledge of domestic abuse and coercive control, although some participants expressed that it was not always easy to convince others of the risks of coercive control, especially where there is no obvious injurious violence identified at an early stage. Good knowledge of domestic abuse and coercive control including myth busting is said to support advocacy and innovation.

Effective victim engagement promotes trust, and participants highlighted the importance of determination and the ‘golden hour’ when establishing engagement and achieving positive outcomes. It is said that victim engagement is determined by a victim’s fear of the perpetrator, trust that the agency will take safeguarding seriously, and fear about whether Criminal Justice System could manage the perpetrator effectively.

Better outcomes for the victims can be achieved when agencies work together to safeguard victims by dealing robustly with the perpetrator. This includes cooperation from the courts and the Crown Prosecution Service, and their efforts to take threats seriously by remanding perpetrators, as well as acting on the breaches of orders robustly.

Participants highlighted the importance of supportive managers and supervisors, who encourage and support practitioners when challenging decisions (i.e., of other agencies/practitioners). Having supportive managers and supervisors promotes effective advocacy and is crucial to achieving positive outcomes for the victims.

Although policies are necessary and important in day-to-day practice, rigid policies may hinder progress. Achieving positive outcomes for victims of domestic abuse is linked to subverting the rigid application of policies and challenging of what is perceived as misinterpretation of policies by partner agencies.

Findings also highlight the importance of awareness and good relationships with specialist support agencies, innovative approaches to practice, and domestic abuse being an organisational priority.

To access the full report, please visit: Preventing Domestic Abuse Related Homicides and Suicides: Learning Lessons from ‘near-miss’ cases – Research Repository (glos.ac.uk)

 

Domestic abuse doesn’t take a holiday in summer – Summer campaign by Humberside police

The sun is out, the BBQ is on, we’re counting down the days to the football. The nights are lighter, the school holidays are upon us, and we’re looking forward to spending more time with the family. Sadly, there can also be a dark cloud over the light summer nights, with some people suffering in silence. We often see a rise in domestic abuse over the summer period, especially when events like the football are on too, and as always, tackling this remains a top priority.

Humberside police have launched a new campaign ‘What do you see?’ which focuses on all forms of domestic abuse, also aimed at getting perpetrators of domestic abuse to recognise their own behaviour by asking ‘Is that me?’ so they can get the support they need to stop.

Officers and staff within the Domestic Abuse Safeguarding Investigation Team (DASIT), Protecting Vulnerable People (PVP) Unit, and Safeguarding Governance Unit have a clear focus on protecting the most vulnerable in our communities, and look at the best course of action against any suspect or offender. Not only this, but there is more focus on those who commit abuse to encourage them to face up to the damage caused by their actions and seek help to change.

For more information about the campaign, please visit: https://www.humberside.police.uk/police-forces/humberside-police/areas/campaigns/campaigns/what-do-you-see

 

Domestic abuse and suicidality toolkit

Deaths by suicide are devastating and, importantly, can be prevented. We know that those who have experienced domestic abuse can be at greater risk of death by

suicide. We also know that asking the question about suicidal thoughts does not increase risk of suicide, but in fact can guide people to much needed support.

Cheshire East Domestic and Sexual Abuse Partnership together with experts with a lived experience, have developed a toolkit to support practitioners in effective intervention and providing crucial support when they suspect either domestic abuse or suicidality.

 

To access the toolkit, please visit: https://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/pdf/livewell/domestic-abuse/da-and-suicidality-toolkit-v1.pdf

 

3rd annual Humber-wide domestic abuse learning event – Book your FREE space now!

This 3rd  Humber-wide annual event will focus on the themes of brain injury, stalking and coercive and controlling behaviour, male victims and LGBTQ+ community, and older adults.

The event will take place on Thursday 18th July 2024, 9:15am-12:45pm.

 

During the event, participants will hear from fantastic guest speakers including Luke Martin, Shital Kuchhadia, Brain Kind, Age UK, and more.

For more information about the event and to book your FREE space, please visit: 3rd Annual Humberwide Domestic Abuse Learning Event 2024 Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite

 

Rethinking domestic abuse and child protection (RDAC) online events – Book your FREE space now!

Research in Practice is hosting two online events to mark the culmination of the ‘Rethinking domestic abuse and child protection (RDAC)’ project. RDAC was funded by the Nuffield Foundation and brought together researchers from the Universities of Sheffield, Huddersfield, Kingston, as well as Research in Practice, Safe Lives and Future Men. This mixed methods study aimed to enhance the national response to domestic abuse and child protection, generating novel findings involving practitioners and families.

Rethinking domestic abuse and child protection (RDAC): Messages for policy will take place on Tuesday 9th July 2024, 10am-1pm, online – for more information about the event and to book your FREE space, please visit: RDAC: Messages for policy | Research in Practice

Rethinking domestic abuse and child protection (RDAC): Messages for practice will take place on Tuesday 17th September 2024, 10am-1pm, online – for more information about the event and to book your FREE space, please visit: RDAC: Messages for policy | Research in Practice

 

Evan Stark: Memorial, celebration and legacy online event – Book your FREE space now!

Centre for Women’s Justice is hosting an online event to celebrate the life and work of Professor Evan Stark, who framed the concept of ‘coercive control’ and persuaded governments to pass laws making it an offence.

The event will take place on Thursday 25th July 2024, 11am-12:30pm, online.

 

During the event, participants will hear from academics and practitioners from UK, Canada, France and Australia, who will contemplate Evan Stark’s legacy, remember his achievements, and discuss how to take forward his legacy and continue with the work that still needs to be done.

For more information about this event and to book your FREE space, please visit: Register Here – Evan Stark: Memorial, Celebration and Legacy – Zoom (tickettailor.com)

For more useful information and resources about safeguarding adults and domestic abuse, please visit the NLSAB website www.northlincssab.co.uk

Many Thanks

Performance Support Officer
Provider Development Team