PAVAUK/BASB Seminar
”Abuse or Crime? Why isn’t it both?
20th October 2009
For the second year, PAVAUK co-hosted an annual seminar with the Birmingham Safeguarding Adults Board at the Aston Villa Football Ground. The PAVAUK AGM was held at the event. The reports presented at the AGM have been included in this newsletter.
The seminar’s evaluation forms asked for scorings on a range of 1 = Poor to 5 = Excellent.
The seminar had three key-note presentations: Joanna Perry on the CPS Policy on Crimes against Older People; An Ferguson on the Scottish Experience of drafting Safeguarding legislation and Tracy Organ on the changing role of the Coroner’s Court in Safeguarding. It would not be appropriate to quote the ratings of each speaker, but, on relevance to their job, 62% of the completed forms rated them as a 4 or 5; 70% rated them as a 4 or a 5 for relevance to its title and 78% rated them as a 4 or a 5 for being informative.
The seminar had 7 workshops that were run once or twice each: Successful Prosecutions under S44 of the Mental Capacity Act; Forced Marriage Protection Orders; Appropriate Adults and Safeguarding; SARCS and Safeguarding; the Criminal Investigation of Institutional Abuse; Safeguarding in the Prison System and the CPS Policy on Crimes against Adults with a Learning Disability or a Mental Health Problem. Again, it would not be appropriate to quote the ratings of each speaker, but, on relevance to their job, 71% of the completed forms rated them as a 4 or 5; 75 % rated them as a 4 or a 5 for relevance to its title but only 66% rated them as a 4 or a 5 for being informative.
Overall, the seminar would appear to have been a success; comments from the evaluation forms include: “a practical, informative seminar, rather than the usual, predictable topics and speakers”; “best seminar attended on safeguarding by far!”; ”will make reflect on practice”; “I was really impressed by the content of the seminar and will look into joining PAVA” and “excellent day – thank you”.
Among the suggested themes for next year’s seminar were: managing safeguarding boards; safeguarding in the context of personalisation; the interface between safeguarding and the MCA/DoLS; Domestic Violence and safeguarding; the interface between local authorities and CQC and measuring outcomes in safeguarding.
I think the above demonstrates the success of the day, and I’d like to thank the speakers and workshop facilitators who contributed to that, as well as my fellow Trustees for their assistance before and on the day. As always, it is the people you don’t see who actually make events like this run efficiently, and I’d also like to thank Suzanne and Sarbjit who handled the administration for the day and the staff at Aston Villa who were so helpful on the day.
The one regret I have is that we won’t be able to accommodate the request of 2 attendees – we can’t extend the seminar to 2 days to enable attendance at more workshops!
Pete Morgan
The Birmingham Event on 20th October 2009 has been hailed a success and it is hoped that a brief synopsis will feature on this page. The programme was:-
Abuse or Crime? Why isn’t it both?
1. Successful prosecutions for Neglect under S44 MCA and for Financial Abuse
2. Applying for and implementing a Forced Marriage Order
3. Appropriate Adults and safeguarding vulnerable adults in custody
4. The role of SARCs in safeguarding vulnerable adults
5. Legislation underpinning safeguarding adults in Scotland
6. The criminal investigation of institutional abuse
7. Safeguarding in the prison system
8. The CPS Policy re crimes against those with a learning disability and/or a mental health problem
All guest speakers, both keynote and workshop facilitators are thanked sincerely for their contribution, plus of course all members and non-members who attended we hope you had an enjoyable day and gained at least something from the experience.
Regards,
Dr Leslie R Angell KOV KT
Hon Chief Executive
Pavauk
“the concept of safeguarding should be put at the heart of neighbourhood policing ……….. forging links with care settings or other premises where vulnerable adults reside”
(West Midlands Police response to the Consultation on the Review of No Secrets)
