PRESS RELEASE FROM MEDEQUIP 

Community equipment services company Medequip has been increasingly concerned about reports of scam phone calls to users of community equipment. The scammers are telling people that they have to provide their bank account details in order to receive the equipment that has been prescribed to them by a health or social care professional.

These callers have nothing whatsoever to do with Medequip. Items such as hospital beds at home, toileting aids, bath lifts, rise and recline chairs and other assistive equipment necessary to keep people safe and independent in their own homes are provided by the NHS and local councils though Medequip and are totally free of charge to the user.

Medequip would like to remind their service users and others that they should never give out their bank details, their PIN numbers or transfer money. Medequip will never request these details. The calls identified so far have been focused around the London area, but Medequip would like to alert all service users across the country to the constant danger of scam calls from unscrupulous fraudsters.

Anyone worried that they may have been a victim of this activity should contact their bank immediately.

For more information, please contact Medequip Customer Services – London 0208 750 1580 or enquiries@medequip-uk.com

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The latest edition of the Lambeth Safeguarding Adults Board newsletter has been published. Our April Board was our first led by our new independent Chair, Anu Singh, and Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) was a strong focus of our meeting. 

Our newsletter includes resources to support better understanding of MSP, self-neglect, executive function and effective adult safeguarding supervision. 

We have also published our annual report for 2020/21 and have release a short animation to help celebrate our achievements in the last year. 

For all this and more, please see our full update below.

If you'd like to be first to hear these updates, email LSABAdmin@Lambeth.gov.uk so that we can add you to our mailing list!

The Everyone's Invited website drew attention to traumatic experiences of sexual harassment and sexual assault that young people, and specifically young women, have had perpetrated against them. The Lambeth SAB will join alongside other partnerships to support local responses to this.

This website has been updated to ensure it contains information about relevant support services for young people who may be seeking help for experiences of rape/sexual assault/sexual abuse. The Lambeth SAB will also write to local universities and educational colleges to request they complete the ‘SARAT’ (ADASS Safeguarding Adults at Risk Audit Tool) which provides a clear outline of their duties under adult safeguarding legislation and to prompt them to evidence the existence of proper adult safeguarding procedures, policies, training and a culture of awareness around adult abuse. 

To report an adult safeguarding concern please use the online form. You can also contact the NSPCC's dedicated helpline on 0800 136 663