• Championing outcomes-driven, locally responsive, safeguarding arrangements
• Establishing a clear legal framework for safeguarding
• The next steps

• Understanding the CQC inspection programme:
  • Role of the regulator
  • Role of local authorities, Health and Well Being Boards, and the NHS Commissioning Board
• Outcomes and practical implications for social workers of the CQC  inspections of care settings

• Practical implications for front-line staff of the Winterbourne View abuse case: What lessons can we learn?
• How do we ensure adults at risk have greater access to advocacy in residential settings?
• What role do large care homes have in meeting the UK’s adult care needs?
• What more can be done to encourage staff to report poor care?
   

• What lessons can be learned from recent Serious Case Reviews (SCRs)?
• Good practice tips and guidance on acting on the outcomes of SCRs
• The future of SCRs in the new commissioning era and challenging financial climate
• Embedding  evidence informed practice amongst front line practitioners 

• Lessons learned on introducing a multiagency information sharing database and group
• Breaking down cross agency barriers
• Strategies for ensuring confidentiality when sharing data
• What next for Cornwall’s approach to safeguarding adults at risk?
• What other prevention strategies are in place?
   

Providing ‘quality outcomes’ within constrained budgets
 

• What are 'quality outcomes' for a safeguarding adults service and who are they ‘quality outcomes’ for?
• How can we gather the evidence of quality outcomes?
• Are there implications for the provision of 'quality outcomes' in the merging of safeguarding children and adult boards?
• Impact of current financial pressures and structural reorganisation in health, social care and criminal justice services on ‘quality outcomes’
   

CASE STUDY: Complying with the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)

• Understanding the relationship between MCA and DoLS
• Clarifying the misconceptions and misunderstandings surrounding DoLS
• How can local councils best advise service providers when to refer and when not to refer clients for DoLS?
• Considerations for preventing the misuse of DoLS
• Exploring recent judgements and good practice in complying with the MCA and DoLS

CASE STUDY: The reality of creating an effective Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB)

• Understanding the role of the SAB
• Getting the structure right
• Ensuring there are good safeguarding procedures universally across the local area
• Key challenges and lessons learned to date

CASE STUDY: Engaging service users in adult safeguarding

• Engaging service users - what do they think of the Council’s services?  Have their outcomes been met?
• Balancing risk against offering choice and control
• Involving service users in the audit and development of safeguarding practices

Safeguarding in situations of self neglect is complex, and practitioners face multiple challenges. Professor Suzy Braye provides an insight into the balance to be struck between autonomy and protection and outlines the evidence on good practice.

In groups delegates will address a range of issues relating to frontline practice. This is an opportunity to share concerns, explore how others are overcoming similar challenges and exchange ideas and good practice. Question prompts will include:

• How are agencies responding to increased alerts and referrals?
• What is good practice in addressing referrals in ‘position of trust’ scenarios?
• What training gaps do frontline staff currently have? How is this being overcome?
• Real life examples of giving clients choice and control over their decisions – key challenges and successes