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.
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.
Are you currently caring for someone other than yourself?
Are there times when you would benefit from having some support for your caring role?
Have you ever wondered what support is out there for carers that you can access?
Or perhaps you have ideas on how to improve these services and/or any additional services you would like to see?
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.
We want to ensure the principle of Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) is embedded in all that we do in Lambeth. All professionals need to feel confident about what MSP means and how to apply this in practice.
The Community Reference Group undertook a project in 2020 to find out what adult safeguarding means to people, using a combination of online survey and telephone interviews.
This report sets out in detail what our respondents told us, and their feedback has reinforced some key messages for practice.