We all have a role to play in safeguarding adults and Safeguarding Adults Week gives us the opportunity to come together to improve our understanding. Each day of the week we’ll focus on a different safeguarding theme, including Making Safeguarding Personal, Mental Capacity and self-neglect.

CQC has published their annual assessment of health and social care in England. This year’s assessment considers the state of care before COVID-19 and then focuses on the impact of COVID-19 and what happens next. They have looked at the way sectors and providers have worked together locally, especially in response to COVID-19.

The Local Government Association have announced a series of webinars to support the understanding of what constitutes a safeguarding concern. These . This multi-agency framework will enable you to take a shared accountability and responsibility for decisions and action through collective and transparent actions.  There will be an opportunity to explore implementation of the multi-agency framework.

Has covid-19 made you think about what care and treatment you would or wouldn’t want if you became very unwell?  Lambeth residents can get free help to record your future wishes now in an advance care plan, so that your loved ones and care professionals will know what’s important to you if you’re unable to tell them later.