Issue 37 | April 2025
Welcome to the April edition of Pass It On News.
A bi-monthly newsletter bringing you the headlines and new policies, procedures and guidance from your West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board.
In this newsletter
In March the full Board met in-person for their final quarterly meeting of the 2024/25 year.
Agenda items included:
- a presentation of an upcoming learning review by the author;
- a deep-dive into the work of our Quality and Performance subgroup;
- a case study from the local Health Independent Domestic Violence Advisors; and
- a presentation on the work of We Are Hourglass, a national charity offering domestic abuse support to older people.
The next meeting of the full Board will take place in June 2025.
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We have recently updated our learning resources on person-centred approaches, and are pleased to share our new resource, Exploring person-centred approaches.
In this resource you will find new information about paternalistic practice, including what paternalistic practice is; the impact of paternalistic practice; and how to avoid it.
This resource has been developed in response to our Safeguarding Adults Review in respect of Tom, which highlighted some evidence of paternalistic practice. Therefore, please do ensure that you share this within your organisations.
Key documents:
Please also refer to the following document, which highlights the importance of making time to speak with adults alone:
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Any adult is at risk of choking. However, it is important to be aware that adults within health and social care services may be at an increased risk of choking, for a variety of reasons.
We have therefore developed some multi-agency guidance aimed at supporting staff with managing choking risks. Please ensure that you share this widely within your organisations.
Key documents:
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We have recently published refreshed versions of two key learning resources.
These are quick reference guides on Making Safeguarding Personal and safeguarding early warning signs.
You can find both of these documents on our Core safeguarding learning resources webpage.
Please do share these within your organisations, and your networks.
Key documents:
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We have now completed our series of eight staff briefings on self-neglect. These briefings provided staff with an overview of what self-neglect is; what research locally and nationally tells us about self-neglect; and where staff can go to access self-neglect practice resources and guidance.
We hope that attendees found these briefings useful, and that staff left the briefings feeling more confident about working with adults who self-neglect, as well as how to access support and resources. Across the eight sessions, we were pleased to welcome around 480 attendees from across the partnership.
If you were unable to attend our staff briefings, but would like to find out more about working with adults who self-neglect, take a look at our resources.
Access our resources:
Do you ever feel that you don't know where to start with our learning resources?
We will shortly be launching our new learning pathway, which has been designed to take you on a journey through our key adult safeguarding learning resources. This pathway will help you to cement your understanding of the basics, develop your skills and knowledge, and enhance your practice. Once you’ve completed this pathway you’ll be on-track to a solid understanding of adult safeguarding.
Look out for more information in future newsletters and bulletins!
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