Safeguarding Adults Week 2026
16-22 November is national Safeguarding Adults Week where organisations across the country come together to raise awareness of important safeguarding adults issues.
Webinars for professionals
In Newcastle, the Board’s Improving Practice Committee is hosting (or involved in) a number of webinars and events to promote safeguarding adults best practice. The schedule below lists the different opportunities to get involved and includes links to book, register an interest or join.
To find out more about each session and to book on, please use the links in the table below.
| Date | Time | Topic | Registration |
| 16 Nov 2026 | 09.30-16.00 | MCA and Safeguarding Adults Masterclass (Webinar) A Specialist Masterclass with Neil Allen, Barrister, 39 Essex Chambers This webinar will explore complex safeguarding scenarios involving autonomy, intervention, risk, and the application of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. | Book |
| 17 Nov 2026 | 13.00-14.00 | Pressure Ulcers and Safeguarding Adults (Webinar) Co-hosted with Convatec for practitioners across the North East and North Cumbria. To support Stop the Pressure Week a webinar designed to build confidence around pressure ulcer prevention, management, and safeguarding adult referrals. | Book |
| 18 Nov 2026 | 09.30-10.30 | Adult Exploitation: Practical Tools for Practice (Webinar) A short, practical webinar highlighting the tools and resources available to help practitioners recognise and respond to adult exploitation. We’ll look at how to use the Adult Exploitation Checklist in practice, alongside the referral pathway and language guidance, to support professional curiosity, identify risk and use clear, non-victim-blaming language. | Book |
| 19 Nov 2026 | 09.30- 10.30 | People’s experiences of the safeguarding adults process to inform practice (Webinar) Hear an overview of feedback from adults at risk and their representatives – what they think works well and what could be improved. | Book |
| 19 Nov 2026 | 13.00 – 14.00 | Safeguarding Adults Decision Support Guidance (Webinar) An overview of the recently launched guidance that supports good quality, proportionate safeguarding adult referrals. This guidance replaces the previous Risk Threshold Tool. | Book |
| 19 Nov 2026 | 14.30-15.30 | Whose Safety? Whose Choice? Whose Voice? (Webinar) Hosted by Your Voice Counts for practitioners across Newcastle and Gateshead. Learn about how independent advocacy supports person-centred adult safeguarding by respecting people’s choices, understanding the influences behind their decisions and ensuring they can meaningfully participate in processes that affect their lives. | Book |
| 20 Nov 2026 | 11.30-12.30 | Self-neglect and diabetes (Webinar) Delivered by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, this workshop will explore the relationship between self-neglect and diabetes, considering how unmet health needs, barriers to engagement, and deteriorating self-care can increase the risk of harm. The session will examine the challenges practitioners face when supporting individuals who are reluctant or unable to manage their condition, alongside the importance of person-centred, multi-agency approaches to reducing risk and improving outcomes. Drawing on practice experience and learning from reviews, the workshop will highlight key considerations for recognising, assessing and responding to self-neglect in adults living with diabetes. | Book |
| 20 Nov 2026 | 1-2pm | Trauma Informed Practice in Advocacy and Safeguarding (Webinar) Delivered by Your Voice Counts for practitioners across Newcastle and Gateshead. Understanding trauma, recognising its impact and creating safer, more empowering professional relationships. | Book |
Consultation
Discriminatory abuse practitioner survey
Discriminatory abuse is a recognised category of abuse under the Care Act 2014. It includes harassment, bullying, unfair treatment or victimisation based on characteristics such as disability, race, religion, age, sex or sexual orientation.
Recent local work has highlighted that practitioners may not always identify discriminatory abuse as a safeguarding issue in its own right. Abuse may instead be recorded as emotional, physical or financial abuse, missing important opportunities to understand the person’s experience and the wider pattern of discrimination. The NSAB is interested in finding out more about practitioner experiences of identifying and responding to discriminatory abuse so we can improve training and guidance in this area. We would be grateful if you would take 5 minutes during Safeguarding Adults Week to complete our short survey: