The Lambeth Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB) acknowledges as part of its strategic plan that there is a distinct lack of data being collected about the sexuality and gender orientation of its service users.

As part of Lambeth Safeguarding Adults Board’s observance of Pride, we want to highlight the largely unrecognised issue of Domestic Violence and Abuse within the LGBT+ community. The heteronormative nature of our society often leads us to believe that Domestic Violence only occurs when a cis man abuses a cis woman, but the data simply does not support this limited view.

The Lambeth Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB) invites you to participate in this year’s Pride celebrations. According to the most recent ONS data, Lambeth has the highest relative proportion of LGBT+ residents of any Local Authority in the United Kingdom at 5.5%.

The Lambeth Safeguarding Adults Board is conducting a staff survey focus

As part of Dementia Action Week, the Lambeth Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB) would like to raise awareness of Predatory Marriage in the context of diminished capacity. Joan Blass suffered from severe vascular dementia and was victim of Predatory Marriage. Her family have campaigned subsequently for the introduction of a new offence of Predatory Marriage among other measures.

Dementia Action Week

The latest edition of the Lambeth Safeguarding Adults Board newsletter has been published. In our April board we covered various topics, not limited to, the promotion of the Complex Case Pathway tool, the need for more Professional Curiosity, and greater awareness of Domestic Abuse in all its forms.

As part of Lambeth’s wider 2021-2027 strategy to tackle Violence Against Women and Girls, LSAB invites you to observe National Stalking Awareness Week. Stalking can take many forms and is not just limited to physical instances but virtual ones too, like cyber-harassment, use of tracking applications or of domestic security cameras.