No Secrets

Kirklees
Safeguarding Adults
Board
Partners in preventing
abuse and neglect
12th edition. Autumn 2015
No Secrets
Safeguarding News
Working together across
Kirklees to protect
vulnerable adults

Welcome to the 12th edition of
“No secrets” Safeguarding News
This is the safeguarding
vulnerable adults’
e-newsletter for health and
social care professionals
and members of the
safeguarding network.
This newsletter has been produced by the
Kirklees Safeguarding Adults Board to
keep you up to date on safeguarding issues
including Safeguarding Mental Capacity Act
and Deprivation of Liberty.
We also include topics that affect you such
as dignity in care, hate crime and domestic
violence. We hope you find it interesting and
informative.
Newsflashes
• At the bottom of some pages you will see
newsflashes – we asked the question “When I
think of the people I work with, what do I do now
to make safeguarding personal?” and you gave us
your answers. For more information see page 14.
In this edition
• Progress update
• Multi-agency policy and procedure
• Safeguarding Annual Report
• The board
• What is the duty of candour?
• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards –
Consultation launched by the Law
Commission
• ‘I feel safer as a result of the
safeguarding investigation’
• Promoting safety - expansion of the
Safe Places Scheme
• SAFER (Scams & Fraud Education for
Residents) project
• Should all self-neglect be regarded
as safeguarding?
• Domestic abuse
• Mental Capacity Act (MCA)
• Dignity In Care network event
• Safeguarding Network Event
• Louise Macaskill, District Nurse Team
Leader -
my secondment
• Housing Services and implications
of the Care Act
• Keith Smith Chair of the board for 9
years
• Do you know how to access Multi-
Agency Training?
• What’s new with you?
• Feedback
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Making safeguarding personal -“tell people how you will help instead of what will
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Progress update
Welcome to Mike Houghton-Evans
Mike Houghton-Evans has been
appointed as the independent
chair of Kirklees Safeguarding
Adults Board.
Mike said “I am delighted
to have been appointed as
independent chair for Kirklees
Safeguarding Adults Board.
It is the role of the chair to
effectively engage with partners
and ensure the board not only
maintains its strategic focus but
also even handed independence
with the ability to challenge
poor performance wherever it
arises.
It is clear that within Kirklees
there are strong partnerships
and this is demonstrated
through the well-established,
effective, and well-supported
Safeguarding Adults Board. The
board has already undertaken
much of the work required to
ensure it complies with the
statutory requirements of the
Care Act.
My role will be to help the board
build on its strong foundations
and continue to provide system
leadership, constructive
scrutiny and challenge as we
focus on our primary focus to
keep the people of Kirklees
safe.”
Mike has a lot of experience
working in specialist
safeguarding area of work.
He has a senior social worker
background and has held
a number of senior posts,
including the position of
Director of Health and Social
Policy/Modernisation – a joint
appointment - working for both
Social Services and health.
Last year he worked with the
Department of Health and the
North West Joint Improvement
Programme and led the work
on early intervention and
prevention.
Mike has been involved in
reviews of safeguarding
arrangements for a number of
years and has held the position
of independent chair of another
Safeguarding Adults Board
since 2009.
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Making safeguarding personal - ”go back to the beginning – get the full story”
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What’s new?
The Safeguarding Adults Multi Agency Policy and
Procedure for West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire
The five West Yorkshire Safeguarding Adults
Boards (SABs) have had a joint adult safeguarding
policy and procedure since October 2013. The
North Yorkshire Safeguarding Adults Board has
now also adopted the policy /procedures, which
have been updated to take into account some
changes required by the Care Act 2014
What are the changes?
The key areas to note are:
Wellbeing duty
The overall wellbeing duty for councils includes
protection from abuse and neglect.
There are some changes in terminology
• Alerts become concerns
• Referrals become initial enquiries.
• You may hear the term ‘formal section 42
enquiry’. This refers to a new duty to make
enquiries.
New duty to make enquiries
The local authority has a responsibility to ensure
enquiries are made where safeguarding criteria
below are met:
• if a person has care and support needs and
• is experiencing, or at risk of abuse or neglect
and...
• as a result of care and support needs, is unable
to protect themselves from abuse, neglect or
the risk of it.
These criteria are becoming known as the
Section 42 criteria.
An enquiry is the action taken or instigated by
the local authority in response to a concern that
abuse or neglect may be taking place.
Any enquiry should establish whether any action
needs to be taken to prevent or stop abuse and
neglect and by whom. It could range from a
conversation with the adult, risk management
action right through to a much more formal
multi-agency course of action, involving
strategy, enquiry and case conference.
Once enquiries are completed, the local
authority should then determine with the adult
what, if any, further action is necessary and
acceptable.
Great emphasis on outcomes
The new policy gives even higher priority
than before to the key messages of Making
Safeguarding Personal, about how we might
respond in safeguarding situations in a way that
improves involvement, choice and control as
well as improving quality of life, wellbeing and
safety.
Types of abuse include:
Physical - including assault, hitting, pushing,
misuse of medication, restraint
Sexual - including rape, indecent exposure,
sexual harassment, inappropriate looking or
touching, sexual teasing or innuendo
Psychological - including threats of harm
or abandonment, deprivation of contact,
humiliation, blaming, controlling
Neglect - including ignoring medical, emotional
or physical care needs
Discrimination - including forms of harassment
because of race, gender and gender identity,
age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
Organisational – (formerly institutional)
including neglect and poor care practice as a
result of the structure, policies, processes and
practices within an organisation.
Financial - including theft, fraud, and
misappropriation of property, possessions or
benefits.
continues over
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Making safeguarding personal - ”check out what’s being said”
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What’s new?
Multi Agency Policy and Procedure
Other types of abuse
The Care Act acknowledges the wider aspects
of adult safeguarding and makes links with selfneglect,
human trafficking /modern slavery and
domestic abuse.
Safeguarding will include some cases of the
above.
However, it is important to note that it will only be
if the criteria set out at Care Act 2014 section 42.1
are met (ie the person must have needs for care
and support) before the issue is considered as a
safeguarding concern.
Duty to arrange advocacy
The local authority has a duty to arrange for
an independent advocate where the adult has
substantial difficulty with the process and there
is no other appropriate individual to assist.
Advocates will be involved in all formal Section
42 enquiries where the adult has substantial
difficulty and no other appropriate support.
Advocates could also be involved in any more
complex risk management approaches.
continued
Implications for care provider
organisations
Role in enquiries
When undertaking an enquiry, the first
responsibility to act must be with the employing
organisation (unless there is a conflict or asked
to do otherwise by the local authority).
The employer should investigate any concern,
provide any additional support the adult may
need, unless there is compelling reason why it
is inappropriate or unsafe to do this. However
it is important to note that the local authority
now has a duty to ensure that any actions taken
by others investigating a concern do safeguard
the individual concerned, so good partnership
working remains essential.
Employers must report all findings of abuse to
Disclosure and Barring Service and professional
bodies with Designated Adult Safeguarding
Manager oversight.
For more information visit
http://bit.ly/1MW5bsx
Safeguarding Annual Report 2014/15
The Safeguarding Annual Report 2014/15 is available on the Kirklees
Council website at http://bit.ly/1JPGM3n
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Making safeguarding personal - ”work harder to involve the Adult at Risk in the process
right at the very beginning”
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What’s New?
The Board
The Kirklees Safeguarding Adults Board brings
together the main organisations working with adults
at risk including the local authority, West Yorkshire
Police and health agencies. Its core purpose is to
help and protect adults at risk in its area.
The board has overall governance of the policy,
practice and implementation for safeguarding. It
also has a key role in promoting the wider agenda so
that safeguarding is a responsibility for everyone.
From April 2015 the board has statutory status,
and much of the board’s work during the last
twelve months has been to ensure it meets the
requirements of the Care Act 2014.
The Act introduces the first statutory framework
for protecting adults from abuse and neglect and
includes:
• A new duty for a local authority to carry out
enquiries (or cause others to) where it suspects
an adult is at risk of abuse or neglect.
• A requirement for all areas to establish a
Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) to bring
together Local Authority, NHS and the police
(these agencies are now statutory partners) to
coordinate activity to protect adults from abuse and
neglect.
• A requirement for Safeguarding Adults Boards
to carry out safeguarding adults reviews into
cases where someone who is experiencing abuse
or neglect dies or there is concern about how
authorities acted, to ensure lessons are learned.
• Safeguarding Adults Boards can require information
sharing from other partners to support reviews or
other functions.
• In addition, Care Act guidance requires boards
(statutory partners) to have initial arrangements in
place to undertake the function of a new role - the
Designated Adults Safeguarding Manager. This
function is at the very early stages of development
and is subject to further national guidance.
Although it is not a requirement, the local authority
has appointed an independent chair to the
Safeguarding Adult Board who is not an employee
of an agency that is a member of the board. This
is to provide reassurance that the board has some
independence from the local authority and other
partners.
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Making safeguarding personal - ”adapt to how the person communicates, using their
language, plain English / whatever form of communication they use”
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What’s New?
What is the DUTY OF CANDOUR?
“Openness and honesty when things go
wrong: the professional duty of candour”
Section 81 of the Care Act sets out the statutory
duty of candour on providers of health care and
adult social care services registered with the
Care Quality Commission Providers of care
regulated by the CQC have a duty to report to
them any allegations of abuse or neglect.
See http://bit.ly/1FW9p43
In addition, in June 2015 the Nursing and
Midwifery Council (‘NMC’) and the General
Medical Council (‘GMC’) issued new guidance out
the standards expected of doctors, nurses and
midwives in respect of their professional duty of
candour.
Under the new guidance doctors, nurses and
midwives should:
• Speak to a patient, or those close to them, as
soon as possible after they realise something
has gone wrong with their care.
• Apologise to the patient - explain what
happened, what can be done if they have
suffered harm and what will be done to prevent
someone else being harmed in the future.
• Use their professional judgement about
whether to inform patients about near misses
– incidents which have the potential to result in
harm but do not.
• Report errors at an early stage so that lessons
can be learned quickly, and patients are
protected from harm in the future.
• Not try to prevent colleagues or former
colleagues from raising concerns about patient
safety
All healthcare professionals have long had a
professional responsibility to be honest with
people in their care when things go wrong,
but this new guidance is the latest step in the
responses to the well-documented failings at
Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
The challenge remains for us all is to embrace
the opportunities for openness provided by the
new guidance and for organisations to support a
culture built on improvement through learning
from mistakes.
See http://bit.ly/1LDIMlo
Openness and honesty
when things go wrong:
the professional duty of candour
The professional duty of candour 1
Every healthcare professional must be open and
honest with patients when something that goes
wrong with their treatment or care causes, or has the
potential to cause, harm or distress. This means that
healthcare professionals must:
■ ■ tell the patient (or, where appropriate, the
patient’s advocate, carer or family) when
something has gone wrong
■■
apologise to the patient (or, where appropriate,
the patient’s advocate, carer or family)
■■
offer an appropriate remedy or support to put
matters right (if possible)
■■
explain fully to the patient (or, where appropriate,
the patient’s advocate, carer or family) the short
and long term effects of what has happened.
Healthcare professionals must also be open and
honest with their colleagues, employers and
relevant organisations, and take part in reviews
and investigations when requested. They must also
be open and honest with their regulators, raising
concerns where appropriate. They must support and
encourage each other to be open and honest, and
not stop someone from raising concerns.
About this guidance
1 All healthcare professionals have a duty of
candour – a professional responsibility to be
honest with patients * when things go wrong.
This is described in The professional duty of
candour, which introduces this guidance and
forms part of a joint statement from eight
regulators of healthcare professionals in the UK.
2 As a doctor, nurse or midwife, you must be open
and honest with patients, colleagues and your
employers.
3 This guidance complements the joint statement
from the healthcare regulators and gives more
information about how to follow the principles
set out in Good medical practice 2 and The Code:
Professional standards of practice and behaviour
for nurses and midwives. 3 Appendix 1 sets out
relevant extracts from General Medical Council
(GMC) and Nursing and Midwifery Council
(NMC) guidance. This guidance applies to all
doctors registered with the GMC and all nurses
and midwives registered with the NMC across
the UK.
*
When we refer to ‘patients’ in this guidance, we also mean
people who are in your care.
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Safeguarding
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards – Consultation
launched by the Law Commission
The Deprivation of Liberty
Safeguards (DoLS) aim to
protect people who lack mental
capacity, but who need to be
deprived of liberty so they can
be given care and treatment
in a hospital or care home.
If a person’s right to liberty
needs to be infringed in other
settings, an authorisation must
be obtained from the Court of
Protection.
The DoLS have been criticised
since they were introduced
for being overly complex and
excessively bureaucratic.
In March 2014, a House of Lords
Select Committee published
a detailed report concluding
that the DoLS were “not fit for
purpose” and recommended
that they be replaced. At the
same time, a case in the United
Kingdom Supreme Court held
that far greater numbers of
people fell to be dealt with
under the DoLS system than
had previously been thought.
This has placed increasing
burdens on local authorities
and health and social care
practitioners administering the
DoLS
The Law Commission has
opened a consultation on the
law of mental capacity and
deprivation of liberty. The
consultation is open until 2
November 2015.
The Safeguarding Adults Board
will be submitting its own
response to the consultation,
but as this affects so many
people across the partnership
in Kirklees, we encourage you
to read the proposals, think
what they mean, and respond
to the consultation ,either
directly to the Law Commission
or by linking in with your own
organisation’s response
Summary
http://bit.ly/1OjcNIL
Full document
http://bit.ly/1eF754q
The consultation questions can
be found at Appendix A
The Law Commission expects
to publish a final report with its
recommendations and a draft
Bill in 2016.
The Law Commission
has proposed replacing
the Deprivation of Liberty
Safeguards (DoLS) with a new
system, to be called “Protective
Care”.
Launching its consultation
on the law of mental capacity
and deprivation of liberty,
the Government’s law
reform advisory body said its
proposed new system would
not be focused on authorising
deprivations of liberty, “but
instead upon providing
appropriate care and better
outcomes for people who lack
mental capacity and helping
their family and carers.”
The consultation can be
viewed here:
http://bit.ly/1fmOrPO
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Making safeguarding personal - ”stop using the word ‘safeguarding’ with the individual it
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Safeguarding
‘I feel safer as a result of the
safeguarding investigation’
What do people in Kirklees say?
Asking people about their experience of safeguarding is clearly
not a simple task and needs approaching in a sensitive way.
This year the board took an active part in research commissioned
by the Department of Health, Health and Social Care Information
Centre and Kings College London. The aim of the research was
to see if adults at risk feel safer as a result of a safeguarding
investigation and if collecting the views of the individual
concerned could help provide a national measure of quality.
The research involved conducting face to face interviews with a
sample of consenting participants who have had a safeguarding
investigation. Questions included:
• Did you feel listened to during conversations and meetings with
people about helping you feel safe?
• Were you able to understand the information given to you when
people were trying to help you stay safe?
• How happy are you with the end result of what people did to try
and keep you safe?
• Do you feel that you are safer now because of the help from
people dealing with your concern?
People or their advocates told us they felt reassured by the
process and the support they were given and that the process
was fair. They were impressed and reassured by the openness
and honesty of staff and people involved in the concern and said
they were safer now the concerns have been recognised.
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Safeguarding - linking with other agendas
Promoting safety - SAFER (Scams & Fraud
expansion of the Safe Education for Residents)
Places Scheme
project
The board has supported
the ‘Safe Places Scheme’
for a number of years
as part of its prevention
agenda. It is a
partnership arrangement
across various parts of the
council, the learning disability
partnership board and Metro Travel.
It is delivered by Mencap in Kirklees.
“Safe Places” are designated venues in the
community where people can go if they are
feeling unsafe or are experiencing what might be
described as a hate crime.
The Safe Places scheme originally focussed
on individuals with learning disabilities but in
September 2014 was re-launched for all adults
who might be at risk in the community, including
people with dementia. This has meant updating
current venues and materials with appropriate
information to ensure the scheme is fully
inclusive and meets all members’ needs.
New partnerships have been encouraged
and developed particularly with dementia led
services including the Kirklees Dementia Action
Alliance, Alzheimer’s Society and Making Space.
Membership of the scheme has steadily
increased to over 400 members and the number
of venues across Kirklees is now approaching
70. The safeguarding board continues to help
guide the scheme through its membership
on the scheme’s steering group. Members
continue to report higher feelings of confidence,
independent travel and ability to participate in
their local community.
For more information visit
https://mencapinkirklees.wordpress.com/
Kirklees
Safeguarding
Adults Board is
supporting the
SAFER (Scams &
Fraud Education for Residents) project.
This project aims to help older residents in
Kirklees to protect themselves from scammers,
fraudsters and doorstep crime
We know that 14.5m people are targeted by
scams annually, 2.5m fall victim, with an
estimated £10 billion lost to fraudsters (National
Fraud Authority 2013).
The University of Exeter (2009) found that scams
cause severe psychological harm through
keeping it secret from family members, and
the Metropolitan Police believe the impact is
equivalent to that of violent crime.
We know fear of crime can increase feelings of
isolation and decrease engagement in the local
community.
SAFER is a community protection and
empowerment programme supporting older and
vulnerable adults run by West Yorkshire Trading
Standards. The project aims to increase the
knowledge, skills and confidence of residents
to protect themselves from doorstep crime and
scams, as well as providing advice and support
on finances. The project also offers training to
front line workers to help them spot, stop and
support residents at risk of victimisation.
For more information contact Rebecca
Finch, SAFER Project officer for Kirklees and
Calderdale, on 0113 393 9814 or email
rfinch@wyjs.org.uk
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Watch this space!
Should all self-neglect be regarded as safeguarding?
Situations where someone
appears to be self-neglecting
are complex and challenging.
The Care Act 2014 requires
boards to consider where
self‐neglect should fit
safeguarding policies and
procedures.
Readers will remember
that we welcomed Michael
Preston-Shoot, Executive
Dean, Faculty of Health and
Social Sciences from the
University of Bedfordshire, to
talk further about the subject.
The audience of over 100
reflected on the expert detailed
research he has carried out.
Michael was supported by Kay
Murray, Head of Professional
Standards, Croydon Adult Care
Commissioning, who also
talked about current thinking
on self-neglect. Mick Wharton,
Wakefield Safeguarding Adults
Board Business Manager,
gave us an example of a case
study and a model of working
that has been used by some
authorities to address issues of
self-neglect.
The board in Kirklees is taking
this work forward using views
shared at the event. There
is a multi-agency group
working at present and their
recommendations will be
shared shortly.
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Domestic Abuse
During recent months key partners have
been working together to produce a new
Domestic Abuse Strategy for 2015-18 and
establish priority actions for the next twelve
months. The strategy sets out a vision and
objectives to reduce the incidence and impact
of domestic abuse in Kirklees delivering high
quality services to victims. Working across all
tiers of need, support will be provided from an
early intervention level when issues are first
recognised, through to high risk cases where
impact is likely to be significant.
The strategy has built on national guidelines
and policies and the Domestic Abuse Needs
Assessment undertaken by Kirklees Public
Health earlier this year; it links to wider
Kirklees strategies including the Safer
Stronger Communities Plan, Joint Health
and Wellbeing Strategy and the work of the
Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and
Adults Safeguarding Board. The strategy has
been produced in collaboration with local
managers from the statutory and voluntary
sectors and recently agreed by the Domestic
Abuse Strategy Partnership and endorsed by
the Safer Stronger Communities Executive.
During coming months, it will be shared
on websites and discussed at the Adults
Safeguarding Board and Health and Wellbeing
Board; a presentation was also made in July
to the Local Children’s Safeguarding Board.
Priorities for the first year include:
• Expansion of Independent Domestic
Violence Advocacy Service to meet needs of
people with mental health and substance
misuse problems, targeted support for
young people, support for victims through
domestic violence prevention orders and
in court, help in Accident and Emergency
departments
• Development of targeted campaigns to
raise awareness of domestic abuse
• Agreement of pathways and referral routes
into services at all tiers of need
• As part of a West Yorkshire programme,
increase perpetrator work
• Further analysis of good practice locally
and nationally to improve understanding of
domestic abuse issues, improve support and
inform future commissioning
• Establish gaps in training to shape
workforce development programme
To view the domestic abuse strategy visit:
http://bit.ly/1MWxerP
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Sharing good practice
Mental Capacity Act (MCA)
Dignity In Care
network event
Last year the Care Quality
Commission made a full
inspection of the Mid Yorkshire
Hospitals NHS Trust.
The inspectors identified
that the organisation had
major problems with the
understanding and awareness
of the Mental Capacity Act
(MCA) 2005. In preparation for
this year’s follow-up inspection,
and further to intensive
training undertaken through
the organisations mandatory
training systems, members
of the adult safeguarding
team spent two weeks on the
three hospital sites, as well
as visits to interim care units
in order to promote MCA and
the Deprivation of Liberty
Safeguards (DoLS).
The team were dressed very
distinctively in bright orange
polo shirts with black lettering
on which asked ‘MCA - any
questions?’
The aim was not for the team to
question staff, but for the staff
to approach them with practice
related questions.
This was very successful and
staff approached the team
with a variety of questions.
Two questions had a recurring
theme, which was apparent
across the entire organisation.
1. Who assesses capacity?
2. How do you document it?
The team encouraged staff
to ask questions, those who
did we rewarded with special
banner pens and credit sized
guides containing basic MCA
information. The banner pens
provided top tips on MCA and
learning disabilities.
On week three, the team
provided support for “learning
disabilities week”, which saw a
manned stand in the hospitals
giving out information on MCA.
Awareness of MCA is continuing
throughout the trust and further
‘orange polo shirt walkabouts’
are happening at regular
interval to help embed MCA/
DoLS.
‘We are what we eat’ -
sharing good practice in
food and fluids
Over 60 people attended this
event recently and took part in
workshops as well as listening
to our guest speakers.
Our guest speakers were
chosen to support the link
between nutrition and
wellbeing:
• Tracy Conroy, tissue
viability nurse delivered her
presentation on pressure
ulcer prevention.
• The FINE (Food Initiatives
Nutrition Education) team
promoted the key messages
for healthy eating. Layla
Brown, dietician from Locala
and Jill Stancliffe, nurse
practitioner discussed the
Malnutrition Universal
Screening Tool’ (‘MUST’) and
food fortification.
• Sandra Gott, Community
Matron and Debbie Atkinson,
MacMillan clinical nurse
specialist explored “Nutrition
in last weeks/days of life”
and Joanne Coxon, Kirklees
College presented on
nutrition and cooking skills.
We are grateful to our speakers
who readily show their
commitment by speaking at the
network events.
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Safeguarding Network Event
Making Safeguarding Personal is about:
• Enabling people to have more control in how
safeguarding happened and to decide on the
process that would work best for them.
• Making sure that people being safeguarded
are better informed about what safeguarding
is, the process that may be followed and
how they might be involved in deciding what
outcomes they wanted.
• Making sure that people are involved in and
able to influence the process that is followed.
Peer challenge and other work has found
that people can tend to feel driven through a
process in safeguarding, although they may
appreciate the work of individual staff they may
not feel in control of what is happening.
Whilst most people do want to be safer, other
things may be as, or more important, for
example: maintaining family relationships.
In Kirklees we started this work by ensuring
the board were fully committed to taking the
work forward, and by then holding a network
event in partnership with Huddersfield
University.
We were delighted to welcome Jill Manthorpe
Professor of Social Work King’s College
London to talk about ‘What is Making
Safeguarding Personal?’ and Sarah Finlay,
Department of Social Work and Communities
Northumbria University, who gave feedback
from research .We also shared feedback from
a pilot study in Kirklees about how people felt
about Safeguarding in Kirklees
We asked practitioners:
• When I think of the people I work with, what
do I do now to make safeguarding personal?
• What can I do differently in my own everyday
practice to make safeguarding more
personal to meet desired outcomes?
• What suggestions do you have that will
support the Kirklees Adult Safeguarding
Board and all partner organisations
to develop and improve how we make
safeguarding more personal in the future?
Feedback from the event was used to plan
some priority areas of work for a task and
finish group to take forward over the coming
months.
Making Safeguarding Personal network
event feedback
It was an inspiring event that has
allowed valuable networking and
also an arena where practice can be
discussed and exchanged. I thoroughly
enjoyed Jill Manthorpe’s presentation
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A very useful and informative event.
Great to see such a good attendance
from a variety of agencies
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Louise Macaskill, District
Nurse Team Leader -
my secondment
Louise Macaskill was seconded 2 days per
week to Locala Safeguarding Team. Louise
told us about her secondment:
“I have now come to the end of my
safeguarding secondment. I finished at the
end of July and had been with the Locala
Adult safeguarding team since March.
I have never had such a more knowledgeable
and enlightening experience. It has been so
valuable, both for myself, and hopefully other
District Nurses, and I hope they will see me
as an extra resource in the community.
I could not believe just how vast and varied the
role was. I was welcomed by everyone I had
the pleasure to meet, including all Kirklees
staff and also the staff in ‘On Trak’. I found
the strategy meetings at the Civic Centre ‘eye
opening’ to say the least.
In our roles as District Nurses we put early
indicator forms in and make safeguarding
referrals, but often that is where our
journey ends. I have now been able to follow
processes and procedures through and see
outcomes and systems that then get put into
place following these initial alerts. I do feel
that with issues that I have been involved in I
have been able to make a difference and it will
definitely change my own practice.
I cannot thank Ayesha Marshall, Sue Wallace,
Paula Adams and Tina Quinn enough for
firstly giving me this opportunity and also
for supporting me in this role and if the
opportunity arose I would gladly join the team.
(That’s if they would have me). Once again a
big ‘THANKYOU’ to everyone I have had the
pleasure to meet.”
Housing Services and
implications of the
Care Act
Housing Services recently held a half-day
session with colleagues from Adults Services,
looking at the implications arising from the Care
Act, and opportunities for closer partnership
working, across our services. As a result we have
strengthened our relationships and increased
our understanding of each other’s “worlds” and
identified scope where we can further build on
this good work.
Below is a good practice example from our
Accessible Homes Team, which provides the
adaptations service and medical re-housing for
people who need to move to more appropriate
accommodation.
The team arrange for the provision of grant
assistance for people who have been assessed
and whose homes need major adaptation as
a result of disability or a long term health
condition. As part of the grant approval process,
staff keep an eye out for any unexplained
irregularities in someone’s finances which might
indicate that financial abuse is occurring. For
example, if large sums of money are going out
of the person’s account, or the person’s living
circumstances don’t seem to be in keeping with
their income.
All staff within the Accessible Homes Team have
been trained in safeguarding, and if abuse is
suspected, they respond in accordance with the
council’s arrangements for keeping people safe.
For more information contact Karen Oates at
karen.oates@kirklees.gov.uk
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Movers and Shakers
Keith Smith Chair of the board for 9 years
On behalf of the board
- a word of thanks from
our lay member, Hazel
Wigmore
The role of chair was
previously held by Keith
Smith, Kirklees Council
Assistant Director for
Commissioning and Health Partnerships.
I would like to say a big thank you to Keith for
his dedication, commitment and hard work over
the last nine years, for his effective chairing,
and successful development of the board.
Keith’s knowledge of local, regional and national
shifts in policy has kept the board in front of
decision-making. He has shown a thorough
grasp of situations, perceiving its broad
compass along with an attention to detail.
Information
Do you know how to access Multi-Agency Training?
The Kirklees Safeguarding Adults Board training
plan sets out our approach to learning and
development activities that are designed to
support the West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire
Multi-agency Safeguarding Adults Procedures
and the requirements of current legislation and
guidelines
Keith has demonstrated the ability to explain
issues clearly and steered a path to solutions.
He has been impartial and allowed all views to
be aired. He has appreciated alternative views
but has been decisive in action. As chair he has
been approachable yet has demanded answers
from board members and candid in investigating
issues.
It has been a privilege to serve on a pioneering
group serving the needs of vulnerable people
under Keith’s strong leadership and I wish him
well for the future.
Richard Parry Director for Commissioning, Public
Health and Adult Social Care also says “I would
like to personally say a big thank you to Keith for
his dedication, commitment and hard work over
the last nine years for his effective chairing and
successful development of the board.”
The training plan focusses on the delivery of high
quality learning and development activities to
all levels of staff to enable them to respond to
safeguarding concerns with prompt, timely and
appropriate action. It also links to other areas of
training, such as dignity in care.
For more information about FREE training visit:
http://bit.ly/1VDm7eO
What’s new with you?
We’re keen to share good practice and hot
topics across all areas of safeguarding. If you
have an issue or good idea that worked for your
organisation and would like to share it please
get in touch using the contact details below.
Feedback
If you have any suggestions for topics
or comments about this newsletter,
then please contact Kirklees Council
Communications and Marketing by email:
CPA&CHYPScommunications@kirklees.gov.uk
Why not send us an article about safeguarding
good practice or new ways of working? We will
promise to try and include it in future editions.
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process and is happy to be involved”
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Information in other formats
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This newsletter has been produced by Kirklees Council Communications and Marketing Team.
October 2015.
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