Safeguarding Week 2025: Overview of New Self-Neglect Practice Guidance

Safeguarding Week 2025: Overview of New Self-Neglect Practice Guidance

Overview of new Self-neglect Practice Guidance for North Yorkshire and City of York

By North Yorkshire Safeguarding Adults Board

Date and time

Friday, June 20 · 2 - 3am PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour

The session is aimed at professionals and volunteers in any partner organisation, who works with adults in North Yorkshire and York.

By the end of the session attendees will:

  • Understand types of self-neglect, signs and symptoms and professional curiosity.
  • Be able to describe safeguarding duties (Care Act, 2014) and how to report a safeguarding concern about self-neglect (in line with the North Yorkshire and City of York multi-agency safeguarding adults policy and procedures).
  • Be aware of the relevant legislation to support people who are self-neglecting.
  • Have an overview of practical tasks and tools to support good practice, when working with people who are at risk of self-neglect.
  • Working with other professionals.


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The NYSAB has been set up to protect adults who may be at risk from abuse by promoting co-operation and effective working practices between different agencies.

The North Yorkshire Safeguarding Adults Board brings together a combination of NHS, Police, local government, independent and voluntary sector and community partners seeking to ensure that adult who make be vulnerable are well and safe.

The NYSAB supports the aims of adult safeguarding which are to:

  • Stop abuse or neglect
  • Prevent harm and reduce risk of abuse or neglect to adults with care and support needs
  • Safeguard adults in a way that supports them in making choices and having control about how they want to live
  • Promote an approach that concentrates on improving life for the adults concerned
  • Raise public awareness so that communities as a whole, alongside professionals, play their part in preventing, identifying and responding to abuse and neglect
  • Provide information and support in accessible ways to help people understand the different types of abuse, how to stay safe and what to do raise a concern about the safety and wellbeing of an adult, and
  • Address what has caused the abuse or neglect
FreeJun 20 · 2:00 AM PDT