Ann Craft Trust

Book Your 2025 Safeguarding Training Today!   We are running our Safeguarding Adults at Risk Level 3 Training for Managers and Designated Safeguarding Leads throughout 2025. This online course will explore the roles and responsibilities of managers in terms of safeguarding adults at risk. We’ll look at the key changes within safeguarding as part of the Care Act. You’ll be encouraged to identify where the challenges are, and to seek solutions towards implementation in practice. We’ll cover best practice, the expectations of regulators, and the lessons we learned from our safeguarding adults reviews. This course is for people with a safeguarding responsibility, or looking to develop for a safeguarding role. It’s also suitable for people looking for personal professional development. These courses tend to fill up fast, so book now to avoid disappointment! The dates for the first couple of quarters are: 14 - 15 January 4 - 5 February 18 - 19 February 20 - 21 March  2 - 3 April  29 - 30 April 15 - 16 May There are additional dates throughout the remainder of the year. You can find out more about these sessions, and our other upcoming training opportunities, on our dedicated events page: https://lnkd.in/gbMqYiw

Safeguarding policies and procedures can help protect people involved in your sport and activity from abuse and exploitation. Unfortunately, we continue to see far too many examples of what happens when safeguarding goes wrong. It’s common to see people talk about the things we can learn from instances of abuse, neglect, and grooming. But what sort of lessons are we supposed to learn, and how are we supposed to make them stick? Read our introduction to learning the right lessons from safeguarding reviews: https://lnkd.in/duVuwFbB

A short introduction to "Fairness Informed Practice". "The experience of fair treatment can provide hope, a sense of stability, and predictability in often chaotic situations. It can also reduce stress, increase well-being, and support people to feel worthy of care and consideration." A guest post from Dr Gavin Hutchison, based on his research: https://lnkd.in/dZqwzaPx

All episodes of the 39 Essex Chambers Everyone's Business series of safeguarding podcasts are available here: https://lnkd.in/ewNfxnQM Each episode focuses on a different theme, including safeguarding in sport, High Court jurisdiction, information sharing, policing, and safeguarding investigations.

Lisa Curtis ran some training for Crisis last night. Crisis is the national charity for people experiencing homelessness. They help people directly out of homelessness and campaign for the changes needed to solve it altogether. We're very proud to support Crisis with their valuable work - particularly at Christmas. Head to their website to donate to Crisis at Christmas, and help someone start a life beyond homelessness: https://www.crisis.org.uk/

Safeguarding Adults Week 2025 will run 17 - 21 November. Every year during Safeguarding Adults Week, we focus on a different safeguarding theme each day. Please let us know what sort of themes you'd like us to cover for next year's event. This will also inform the speakers and the sessions we arrange for our annual Safeguarding Adults Conference, which will take place on Wednesday 19 November 2025. Take five minutes to share your thoughts here: https://lnkd.in/dYddY2zy

Following our 2024 AGM, Steve Kiekopf and Tracy Girling from Sense led a seminar on Understanding Consent and Choice. Individuals with complex needs often do not have the opportunity to learn about how they can keep themselves safe. This year Sense ran a pilot project with individuals attending their college and day service to better understand the concepts of consent and choice. Consent and choice are crucial to someone understanding their rights relating to safeguarding and keeping safe. Sense worked with VAMOS THEATRE COMPANY to explore these issues. They ran theatre and role play workshops using gesture, masks, and non-formal communication. In this way they explored these key themes, helping participants recognise that their ‘No’ is as valuable as their ‘Yes’. They also explored various different ways of making choices, and how they might communicate these choices to others. In this free online seminar, Steve and Tracy discussed this project, and their findings. You can watch a video of the session on our website. Please note this video also features our AGM. Skip to 17:00 to see the Sense presentation: https://lnkd.in/eSVnDbwV

We host forum meetings for people who take on the Lead Safeguarding role in independent national sport and activity organisations that are not required by Sport England to complete the Safeguarding Adults Framework. Our forums provide the opportunity to stay up-to-date with the latest safeguarding developments. They also act as a peer support network, and allow you to share best practice. The next forum is on Tuesday 10 December. At this meeting we will be joined by Chris Harris from Broxtowe Women's Project, who will provide an overview of the White Ribbon campaign and domestic abuse.  Get full details and sign up here: https://lnkd.in/eQzxbndm

Cognitive impairment and exploitation: an investigation into evidence, responses and policy implications. At the 2024 Safeguarding Adults Conference in Nottingham, Dr Alison Gardner shared findings from a two-year research project that explored how cognitive impairments can increase risks for adult exploitation. Joining her were Ann Craft Trust Head of Safeguarding Adults Lisa Curtis, and some representatives from CASBA Advocacy, who contributed to the project. The study explored how people are targeted for exploitation. It also asked why cognitive impairments might make one more at risk of exploitation. You can read a summary of the session, and watch a recording of a webinar Dr Gardner ran during Safeguarding Adults Week, on our website: https://lnkd.in/ek84egU8 #SafeguardingAdultsWeek

No matter what you did to support Safeguarding Adults Week – whether you put on an event, wore something green, or simply shared some resources online – we’d like to say a massive thank you. Safeguarding Adults Week 2025 will take place 17 – 21 November. Our annual Safeguarding Conference will take place in Nottingham on Wednesday 19 November. We will announce the venue early next year. Here's a brief summary of some of the activity that took place throughout the week: https://lnkd.in/e-mFmbr9