Safeguarding Adults Week 2024

Lunch and learn session

Date: Thursday 20 November 2024
Time: 12.00pm to 1.00pm
Location: online session, find out how to book
Audience: This workshop is aimed at professionals
Presenters: Rhonda Hackett, Advanced Customer Support Senior Leader Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

Find out more about the work of the Department for Work and Pensions in safeguarding adults. How they are in a unique position to support and identify adults at risk of harm and abuse through the advanced customer support role and job centres as safe places for victims of domestic abuse.

Safeguarding Adults theme for Thursday

Recognising exploitation: The ladder of criminality

Criminal exploitation is the deliberate abuse of power and control over another person. It is taking advantage of another person or situation for criminal purposes or personal gain. Criminal exploitation could also include other forms of harm and abuse such as modern slavery, sexual exploitation or cuckooing.

On this day, we want to encourage people to think about how they would work together to recognise the signs of criminal exploitation and how to respond. Specifically, we will be focusing on how practitioners can spot the signs and respond to people with learning disabilities who are subjected to criminal exploitation.

Join the conversation

Tell us about any resources or tools you use to enable you to adapt a trauma informed approach. Which agencies are you working with to minimise the risk of criminal exploitation or to respond to concerns?

Use the hashtag #SafeguardingAdultsWeek to share your reflections with us on social media.