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Safeguarding Adults Week

Safeguarding Adults Week 2025 was all about Prevention.

National Safeguarding Adults Week 2025 took place from Monday 17th November to Friday 21st November 2025. 

What did the SSAB do?

For a full overview of what the Surrey SAB and its partners are planning please view our full programme, the SSAB has also compiled a list of social media resources and suggested wording for each day.

On Wednesday 19th November the SSAB held a webinar session on In Safe hands?: Domestic Abuse Survivors’ Experience of General Practice.  The Recording can be found – Webinar Series – Surrey Safeguarding Adults Board

What did our Partners do?

  • Surrey and Borders Partnership Trust (SaBP)
    Lunch and Learn – Preventing Domestic Abuse  – Tuesday 18th November at 12pm by Microsoft Teams Join the meeting now

 

What is the Ann Craft Trust doing?

This years Ann Craft Trust, theme is “Prevention,” focusing on stopping abuse before it happens.  will include encouraging conversations, prevention in practice, creating empowering environments, trusting instincts, and celebrating safer cultures.  Prevention: Act Before Abuse.

Usually, when people talk about “safeguarding”, they are talking about the policies and procedures we might put into place to respond to concerns of abuse, or to minimise the risk of a person being harmed or abused again. They are also talking about the lessons we might learn from past cases of abuse.

2025 Daily Themes

  • Monday: Change the Conversation.
  • Tuesday: Prevention in Practice.
  • Wednesday: Creating Empowering Environments.
  • Thursday: Trust Your Instincts.
  • Friday: Celebrate the Safer Cultures.

Free Online Safeguarding Adults Week Seminars

We will be running a number of free online seminars throughout this year’s Safeguarding Adults Week.

The Ann Craft Trust Safeguarding Adults Conference 2025 – Full Programme Now Available!

You can now view the full programme for our 2025 Safeguarding Adults Conference in Nottingham. Ann Craft Trust patron Richard Whitehead MBE and CEO Stuart Sale will kick things off with a short welcome session.
We’ll then have a keynote speech from Mhairi Maclennan from Kyniska Advocacy, focused on how we can learn from sport to build a world that protects, respects, and celebrates its people.
Throughout the day, there’ll be breakout sessions and a panel discussion involving Ann Craft Trust associate trainers, as well as Broxtowe Women’s Project, Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA), We Are Survivors, University of Nottingham Rights Lab, and Blind Veterans UK.
We’ll soon upload a detailed programme with speaker bios, and with more information about what to expect from each session.
Fewer than 20 tickets remain – so if you’re yet to book yours, act now before it’s too late! – Book Your Place at the 2025 Safeguarding Adults Conference

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For more information on what the Ann Craft Trust are doing and more information on the themes for each day, and links to resources. Get your free Safeguarding Adults Week resources

Safeguarding Adults Week took place from Monday 18-22 November 2024.

It was a time for organisations to come together to raise awareness of important safeguarding issues. We hope the week will enable more organisations and individuals to feel confident in recognising signs of abuse and neglect and recording and reporting safeguarding concerns.

During the week we collaborated with our partners to explore a different theme each day. The themes will encourage us to consider how we can work together to establish safer cultures within our workplaces and communities.

The themes of the year were:

  • Monday – Developing Professional Curiosity
  • Tuesday – Working in partnership: How to work effectively with the people you support
  • Wednesday – Establishing Professional Boundaries
  • Thursday – Recognising exploitation: The ladder of criminality
  • Friday – Professional and Organisational Learning

To find out more about the themes, please visit the Ann Craft Trust.

Events were also held across Surrey.  Stalls had lots of  information, including how to protect yourself from scams, fire safety advice, carer support information and who to tell if you are concerned that you or someone you know is at risk of abuse or neglect.

In addition, we shared a virtual resource pack, this included social media content and general information on safeguarding adults in Surrey.

Safeguarding Adults week special: Cuckooing and Criminal Exploitation – November 2024

20-26 November 2023

Safeguarding Adults week took place between Monday 20th November – Sunday 26th November and the Board collectively worked with partners to raise awareness of important safeguarding issues.

The Board continues to lead and co-ordinate communication and engagement activity
across National Safeguarding Adults Week and during the week, we were able to visit various locations across Surrey to host stalls and meet individuals and enable them to feel more confident in recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and reporting safeguarding concerns. Some activities and events included:

  • Attending the Camberley engagement hub hosted by Action for Carers to disseminate information, leaflets and SSAB merchandise. The event was well attended with over 100 visitors.
  • Collaborating with partners from First Community Health and Care, Surrey Police and the Surrey Fire and Rescue Service organised a stand at the Belfry Centre in Redhill to deliver information and inform residents about the importance of Safeguarding Adults Week.
  • Visiting the University of Surrey to meet students and inform them about the Surrey Safeguarding Adults Board and explaining the importance of being able to ensure they are confident in reporting safeguarding concerns.
  • Launch of Safeguarding Adults Easy read leaflets.
  • Videos and resources developed and disseminated with independent specialist college in Surrey.

Themes across the week were set by Ann Craft Trust and to ensure consistency in activity,
key messages were shared by the Surrey Safeguarding Adults Board through our social media channels.

The themes were:

  • Monday – Mental Capacity Act
  • Tuesday – Role of the carers (Learning from SARs), Power of Attorneys
  • Wednesday – SSAB Safeguarding Conference
  • Thursday – Trauma informed/Vicarious Trauma
  • Friday – Domestic Abuse/Scams

21-27 November 2022

National Safeguarding Week 2022 took place from Monday 21-Sunday 27 November . The topics for the week were:

  • Monday –Exploitation and county lines
  • Tuesday – Self-neglect
  • Wednesday – Creating Safer Organisational Cultures
  • Thursday – Elder Abuse
  • Friday – Domestic Abuse in Tech-Society
  • Saturday & Sunday – Safeguarding in Everyday Life

What we did in 2022

National Safeguarding Week 2022

Suggested Tweets and social media resources
Safeguarding Adults Week ideas checklist
Safeguarding Crossword

Follow us on Twitter @SurreySAB where we will be tweeting daily with both local and national organisations tweets as well retweeting other twitter threads.

Surrey Safeguarding Adults Board Resources: