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DSPP Annual Conference 2022

Date: Wednesday, 30th Nov 2022 | Category: Adults, Children

The Dudley Safeguarding People Partnership Annual Conference took place on 7th July 2022 and was well attended by agencies from across the Partnership. At the event DSPP formally launched our priorities for 2022-24.

Joining us were keynote speakers Dez Holmes, Director at Research in Practice and Professor Michael Preston-Shoot, Emeritus Professor of Social Work at the University of Bedfordshire. Dez spoke about developing a transitional safeguarding approach and Michael spoke about learning from self-neglect SARs, research and people with lived experiences.

Facilitating the day were AFTA Thought, an organisation who use drama to bring learning from recent CSPRs and SARs to life.

The DSPP Priorities for 2022-24 are:

  • There is a joined up and coordinated response to a range of risks including exploitation, serious youth violence, knife crime, peer on peer abuse, harmful sexual behaviour and online forms of harm, financial abuse, and modern slavery.
  • Ensure a pro-active and multi-agency approach to training and changes in legislation and policy to ensure practitioners are equipped to deal with and prevent exploitation and risk.
  • We will seek assurance that the launch of the Graded Care Profile2 is adequately resourced and utilised.
  • We will ask partners to provide evidence that Practitioners are increasingly skilled at identifying, assessing, and intervening in cases of neglect and self-neglect.
  • We will seek assurance that there is a common recognition of neglect and self-neglect throughout the partnership at a practice level.
  • Review transitional safeguarding arrangements
  • Support effective transition on all services including SEND, child looked after (and previously looked after), children in youth justice system, mental health and young adults at risk of exploitation
  • Upskilling the children’s and adult’s workforce and those in the Voluntary, Community Sector around children and Mental Health

For more information view our Strategic Business Plan 2022-24

Keynote Speakers

Dez Holmes, Director at Research in Practice, spoke around the importance of developing transitional safeguarding within Dudley. You can view her slideshow below:

Professor Michael Preston-Shoot, Emeritus Professor of Social Work at the University of Bedfordshire, joined us in the afternoon to discuss learning from self-neglect Safeguarding Adult Reviews, research and people with lived experiences. View more information at the below link:

Dudleys Model of Practice

Dudley’s Model of Practice

Think Family

The ‘Think Family’ approach focuses on all aspects of adversity across the continuum of need.

Examples could be the diagnosis of serious illness, mental health, or substance misuse issues which may impact on parenting or caring.

Trauma Informed

A trauma-informed approach focuses on all aspects of adversity across the continuum of need.

Examples of trauma could be the diagnosis of serious illness, poverty, death and loss to abuse and neglect.

Restorative Practice

A Restorative Practice’ approach can be broadly applied across the partnership of agencies working with children, families, and communities.

Using restorative principles and behaviours with our colleagues and partners, as well as children and families, enables us to develop positive working relationships.

Learning From Reviews

At the Conference we explored themes and actions as a result of Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and Safeguarding Adults Reviews, view these below

  • Risk of co-sleeping
  • Neglect and the impact of cumulative neglect
  • Multi-agency information sharing
  • Parental mental health
  • A think family approach and not viewing incidents in isolation
  • Voice of fathers or missing men
  • Cross border protocols
  • Professional challenge and resolution
  • Non-accidental injury
  • Revised multi-agency Professional Challenge and Resolution Policy
  • Work to embed the GCP2 and GCP2A framework and assessment into practice
  • Support with development of Dudley’s Exploitation Hub
  • Development of the DSPP Non-Accidental Injury Forum to promote awareness raising across the partnership
  • Guidance development to support professionals when dealing with families who present as hostile, aggressive or violent
  • Impact of alcohol and substance misuse
  • Carers assessments and support
  • Unsafe discharge
  • Multi-agency information sharing
  • An understanding of mental capacity
  • Professional challenge and resolution
  • Self neglect
  • Mental health
  • Revised multi-agency Professional Challenge and Resolution Policy
  • Awareness raising of the work being done and criteria for the Safeguarding Adults at Risk Team

We thank all who attended and contributed to a successful event.

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