Westminster Safeguarding Adults Board - Westminster City Council

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Reintroduce practice forums for practitioners and Safeguarding Adults Managers
Develop sub-groups of the board to progress the key work streams such as case review,
training and communications
Build Safeguarding into all aspects of Transformation of Social Care work
Set up and publicise a designated safeguarding adults line and safe-haven fax to receive
referrals from the public, the police, London Ambulance Service and the Commission for
Social care inspection. This is being widely publicised
Safeguarding adults staff training and development
Safeguarding adults work is complex and can only be done well by skilled and resourceful
people. We are fortunate in Westminster to be able to attract and retain high calibre staff and
are committed to supporting and developing them to do this challenging work.
This year, we have taken the opportunity to refresh the content of our development and training
activities and our pool of trainers using an evidence-based assessment of training needs.
New courses included Investigating Suspicions of Abuse and Financial and Material Abuse.
Furthermore, the Service Manager has delivered a series of briefings to a variety of organisations.
We have made sure that safeguarding policy and procedures underpin all of the training
relating to vulnerable adults eg Mental Capacity Act, HIV Awareness and Challenges to Mental
Health in Later Life.
All Westminster social care providers were sent a questionnaire in May 2007, asking them to
detail the percentage of staff that have received safeguarding training, by team, during the
previous year. There was a 100% return rate and the questionnaire has been sent out again to
gather data for 2007/08. The information is being used to analyse the providers’ training needs,
to inform the commissioning priorities and plan with providers how best to address the gaps.
The safeguarding adults development and training programme is available to council staff and
partner agencies in health, housing, MPS and the voluntary sector. Some training is provided
by a reciprocal arrangement with Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Westminster
City Council currently funds the programme, with contributions from the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster Primary Care Trust.
The core Safeguarding Adult modules are:
› protection of vulnerable adults - stage 1
› identifying and investigating financial and material abuse
› legal aspects of safeguarding adults, adult protection and risk
› developing effective investigation skills
› adult protection enquiry co-ordinator training – co-ordinating multi-agency responses to
allegations of abuse
In addition to the modules outlined above, the inter-agency programme offers a wide range
of courses such as Mental Capacity Act, Living with Dementia, Capacity and Consent and
Valuing Diversity. All of this training is underpinned by reference to safeguarding adults multiagency
policy and procedures.
We will be updating our workforce plan and workforce development strategy, beginning
with an away day for the Safeguarding Adults Board in April. The strategy will respond to
the recommendations of the evaluation report and will be circulated to all key agencies for
contributions and comments.
The number of people who attended training as part of the safeguarding adults programme
2007 – 2008 is outlined in the table below:
Training course
Protection of Vulnerable Adults (stage 1) 144
Investigating Suspicions of Abuse 26
Financial and Material Abuse 10
Legal Aspects of Safeguarding 13
Community Care Legislation 16
Risk Assessment (Legal Aspects) 10
Adult Protection Enquiry Co-ordinators (run jointly with
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
Supported attendance at external conferences 2
Total 234
Complementary Development & Training
Capacity and consent 60
Mental Capacity Act briefings 707
Mental Capacity Act assessments 175
Total 942
Team briefings and contributions to training
Westminster
Primary Care Trust
(WPCT)
Westminster City
Council (WCC)
Central North West
London Foundation
Trust (CNWL)
Six teams and sessions in induction, refresher and
domestic violence
Six teams, three practice forums, providers conference,
LDQ
Three teams 47
St Mary’s Three teams 35
Independent Princess Grace Hospital Managers 8
Total 321
Attendees
3
129
102
This is a new course. The course was designed and delivered by two Adults Services Team Managers with presentations
from the Metropolitan Police, Service, the Public Guardian’s Office and the Department for Work and Pensions.
For a list of organisations who attended the courses, please see Appendix 1