Safeguarding Adults Week 2024
Monday 18 November: Predatory Marriage
Lunch and learn session
Date: Monday 18 November 2024
Time: 12.30pm to 1.30pm
Location: online session, find out how to book
Audience: This workshop is aimed at professionals and public
Presenter: Daphne Franks, Communication Skills teacher, and daughter to victim of predatory marriage
Predatory Marriage is generally described as when a (usually younger) person marries a (usually older) who lacks capacity to marry, with the intention of acquiring access to their estate upon their death. Daphne Franks explores this topic through her lived experience and looks at the complexities and cross overs with grooming, gaslighting and coercive control of many of the predators.
Safeguarding Adults theme for Monday
Look, listen, ask; developing professional curiosity
Professional curiosity is where a practitioner proactively recognises and asks questions to try to understand what is happening within a particular institution, family or for an individual, rather than making assumptions or taking a single source of information and accepting at face value.
To achieve safer cultures and communities, practitioners and members of the community should be professionally curious. This involves looking, listening, asking direct questions and reflecting on all of the information received. We need to be recognising signs that harm could be occurring, asking questions to learn more about what is happening and talking to others within and outside of our organisational context, where necessary, to follow-up concerns.
Join the conversation
We would love to hear about how you've developed professional curiosity in your role. You can share resources about what professional curiosity means in your sector or role.
Use the hashtag #SafeguardingAdultsWeek to share your reflections with us on social media.