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Safeguarding Adults Conference - Making it Personal

Working in Partnership to develop creative ways to support adults who are vulnerable to abuse.

A one day conference for practitioners, students and teaching staff from different settings with a shared interest in adult safeguarding.

Hosted by: Bucks New University

Key Speakers:
Professor Michael Preston-Shoot
Chair of Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Board

Bill Nicol
Head of Adult Safeguarding
Derbyshire NHS PCT Trust

Date: Wednesday 15 September 2010
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm
Venue: Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe Campus

Conference aim
The conference will bring together practitioners, academics, service users and carers with experience and expertise in aspects of adult safeguarding, to explore how creative practice, research, legislative changes and preventative initiatives can support adults who are vulnerable to risk of harm, abuse and exploitation.

Key note speakers will address important elements of safeguarding adults, considering recent adult social care legislation, the impact on practice, the value of good partnership working and the importance of empowering vulnerable adults.

Conference agenda

Eight different workshops seminars will cover a diverse and thought provoking range of topics, reflecting ways that individuals can become at risk of harm, exploitation and abuse and interventions to combat this:

  • Institutional Abuse and Learning Gained from Serious Case Reviews
  • Self Abuse, Linked to Substance Misuse 
  • Dementia Strategy from a Carer's Perspective
  • Personalisation and the Preventative Benefits of Telemedicine 
  • Mental Capacity, Deprivation of Liberty and Best Interest Assessments
  • Inter-Professional Working with Nursing Services
  • Hearing Impairment and Risks of Isolation and Exclusion due to Barriers in Society
  • A Service User Perspective on Abuse within the Family

 

The fee including lunch is £95 - public/private sector
(An early bird rate of £80 is available if tickets booked before end of June)
£50 - non-government officer
£25 - Students (Students from Bucks New University Social Work programmes, can attend for free as part of the Big Deal)

To book a place by credit card, please click here.

To be invoiced for a place, please email hwelle01@bucks.ac.uk.

If you are interested in attending you may wish to download the provisional agenda.

Key Contacts:

Hilary Weller
Tel: 01494 522 141
E-mail: hwelle01@bucks.ac.uk     

Jenni Burton
Tel: 01494 522 141
E-mail: jenni.burton@bucks.ac.uk