Safeguarding

This session will explore how the Care Act supports rather than obstructs responses to adult exploitation. It will focus on the importance of restoring autonomy where coercion undermines decision-making, recognising disguised compliance or apparent consent, use of legal options, balancing protection with empowerment and challenging victim blaming attitudes.

Allison Hulmes is a Welsh Romani social work academic and co-founder of the Romani & Traveller Social Work Association. Allison has been a social worker for 25 years and has practiced in adult safeguarding/deprivation of liberty safeguards and as a therapeutically trained social worker, with a focus on strengthening families. Allison is the Romani & Traveller Representative, International Federation of Social, and External Advisory Group member (Welsh Government), Anti-racist Wales Action Plan.

Operation Hydrant is a national policing programme designed to improve the police response to safeguarding children and investigating child sexual abuse. It coordinates intelligence, develops best‑practice guidance, provides learning and review capabilities, increases public and survivor confidence, and supports police forces and partners through national analysis, strategic liaison, and implementation of recommendations such as those from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).

In just 60 minutes, attendees will:

The Manchester Safeguarding Partnership (MSP) a

Manchester Safeguarding Partnership are excited to announce their first Joint Children's and Adults Forum in person.

This is a great opportunity to meet colleagues across Manchester working with children, adults and families.

The Joint Children’s and Adults’ Safeguarding Forum acts as a bridge between frontline multi‑agency practitioners and the strategic work of the Manchester Safeguarding Partnership Board.

Its aim is to bring together practitioners from across agencies in a safe environment where they can:

We are pleased to be working with

For this special discussion, Phil McQuillen, Culture and D

Learn how to raise an issue with the regulator in a responsible and appropriate way.

If you have concerns about the operation or governance of a charity, it can be difficult to know what to do next.

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 practic