Safeguarding

This year's adult safeguarding conference will focus on ensuring that the voices, wishes and lived experiences of adults remain at the heart of safeguarding practice. Through inspiring keynote speakers, interactive workshops and contributions from people with lived experience, practitioners will explore how we can strengthen safeguarding and improve outcomes for adults across Manchester.

Why attend?

Join the MSP Children's Forum for safeguarding updates, shared learning and multi-agency practice discussions. The Manchester Safeguarding Partnership (MSP) Children's Forum brings together professionals from across the partnership to share learning, explore emerging issues, and strengthen multi-agency approaches to safeguarding children and families across Manchester.

This half-day course provides a detailed understanding of the safeguarding duties and responsibilities for Trustees.

Course content includes:

This session will look at the legislation, and what trustees need to know and do. It will also look at how best to apply it in a community building setting where you may be hiring space but have little direct interaction with the vulnerable people attending the activities.

Challenging Identity: How Does Intersectionality Impact Our Capacity to Make Safeguarding Personal?

What happens when a person’s identity is shaped by multiple experiences, characteristics, and communities?

How can understanding intersectionality help us make safeguarding more person-centred and inclusive?

Moving beyond assumptions and enabling informed decision-making: The Where I Want to Live Toolkit.

This seminar explores how we can move beyond assumptions about what people with learning disabilities want for their future and instead create opportunities for genuine choice, voice and control. Through the Where I Want to Live Toolkit, participants will discover an innovative, co-produced digital resource designed to help people with learning disabilities explore, discuss and express their wishes about where and how they live as adults.

Join Ann Craft Trust CEO Stuart Sale as they launch Safeguarding Adults Week 2026 and come together to explore this year's theme, Every Voice. Every Choice.

The campaign explores how co-production and Making Safeguarding Personal can empower people, strengthen safeguarding practice, and ensure individuals have greater choice and control in decisions that affect their lives.

This opening session will provide an overview of the week ahead, including the daily themes, free online seminars, campaign activities, and opportunities to get involved.

This one-day training course provides an overview of the roles and responsibilities of safeguarding leads in charities in England.

By the end of the training, you will be able to:

This introductory course explains the key trustee responsibilities for safeguarding, following guidance from the Charity Commission.

Safeguarding is a fundamental part of operating as a charity for the public benefit. Trustees must take reasonable steps to protect people who come into contact with their charity from harm.

This course will help trustees embed safeguarding in their governance. The course also explores common safeguarding risks trustees should be aware of, and how to manage personal behaviour and relationships.

All voluntary organisations have a duty to keep the people they work with safe from harm. This course introduces the basics of safeguarding within a charity context in England and highlights effective safeguarding practice.

Safeguarding is the range of measures to protect people within an organisation, or those they come into contact with, from abuse and maltreatment of any kind.

This course introduces: