This conference which features extended interactive sessions focuses on the difficult issue of self neglect and adult safeguarding and includes an extended focus on hoarding.
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Chair's Introduction & Welcome, EXTENDED SESSION: Safeguarding people who self-neglect: what works?
Suzy Braye OBE
Emerita Professor of Social Work
University of Sussex
This session will draw on evidence from the presenter’s research (with David Orr
and Michael Preston-Shoot) into effective practice in self-neglect; it will consider:
• the range and scope of self-neglect work nationally
• the challenges experienced in practice
• what goes wrong – findings from safeguarding adult reviews in cases of self-neglect
• what goes right - service users’ and practitioners’ perspectives on approaches that support positive outcomes
• effective interagency working in self-neglect
EXTENDED INTERACTIVE SESSION: Hoarding and safeguarding: professional and practice issues
Deborah Barnett
T-ASC (Training, advice, solutions & consultancy)
Safeguarding Adults and Domestic Abuse
• hoarding and risk issues relating to hoarding
• preventing the escalation of hoarding
• supporting a person with hoarding behaviour to address underlying cases of hoarding
• supporting the person to change hoarding behaviours
• our experience and lessons from a serious case review
This session includes delegate interactive engagement
Learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews involving Self-Neglect
Prof Michael Preston-Shoot
Emeritus Professor of Social Work
University of Bedfordshire
• learning from a range of ‘self-neglect’ SAR reviews
• what has changed in practice at practitioner level and at Safeguarding Board level as a result of learning from SARs on ‘self-neglect’?
• case studies demonstrating improvement
The next date of this conference is Wednesday, 8th November 2023
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