Join Westminster Insight’s annual Safeguarding Adults Digital Conference for your chance to gain crucial updates and practical guidance for the sector. 

With a focus on effective multi-agency working, the practical, one-day conference will focus on collaborative working and information sharing to improve the protection of vulnerable adults.

Kathryn Smith, Chief Executive , Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) will outline new priorities, trends and lessons for protecting vulnerable adults.

With the new CQC inspections due to be rolled out soon, this conference is ideally timed to provide you with the knowledge and tools to demonstrate your compliance with safeguarding requirements under the new Single Inspection Framework. Understand the new quality statements for safeguarding and how to conduct effective and compliant internal investigations surrounding safeguarding concerns.

You will receive an update on the legal framework around safeguarding, including the section 42 Care Act duty, DoLS, MCA and the LPS delay and potential future reform.

Hear how to better embed lived experience into your service provision and to ensure safeguarding is centred around the person. You will hear how one region is embedding a trauma informed approach to safeguarding.

The conference will be delivered live from a bespoke digital platform, join us online to hear the latest updates and to discuss challenges with safeguarding peers and partners from across local authorities, health services, police, emergency services, social housing and the voluntary sector. 

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We wanted to make you aware of our upcoming County Lines Digital Conference, taking place online on Wednesday 6th December, and that the Early Bird discount rate is expiring next Friday, 20th October. Book your place today with code EARLY4125 to secure 20% off.

Through the County Lines Programme and Drugs Strategy, disrupting county lines and safeguarding young people is a top national priority. Join us to hear about the latest guidance, legislation, funding and best practice. You’ll hear from Anne Rannard, Protect Lead at the National County Lines Coordination Centre, about identifying children who are being exploited and supporting victims to give their best evidence.

County Lines trafficking does not exist in a vacuum. It is a major, cross-cutting issue involving drugs, violence, gangs, safeguarding, criminal and sexual exploitation, modern slavery, and funds other illicit activities. There is an urgent need for joined up action and multi-agency approaches. At this timely event, we will bring together government, schools, police, prosecutors, councils, housing providers, charities, and other agencies to discuss what more can be done do to protect vulnerable children from being groomed into county lines gangs.

County lines gangs habitually prey on young and vulnerable children or ‘runners’ to sell their drugs up and down the country, sometimes from as young as 12 years old.** Grooming is an important part of what makes county lines possible. We will learn how grooming takes place, how to identify the signs, how to raise awareness among young people, and practical solutions to prevent it.

Don’t miss this opportunity to network with colleagues and take away practical solutions to tackle county lines in your community.

Key points:

• Identifying the signs of grooming into county lines
• Disrupting the transportation of drugs across the country
• Using technology to prevent drug gangs from laundering their money
• Multi-agency working to tackle county lines
• What next for the County Lines Programme?
• Protecting at-risk children exploited by county lines
• Learning from the experience of those on the frontline dealing with county lines

We look forward to bringing you the full line-up of expert speakers shortly.

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Digital Conference

Perinatal mental health (PMH) problems affect around 1 in 4 new or expectant mothers, covering a wide range of conditions.* With 40% of deaths within the first year after pregnancy being related to mental health, it’s vital families get the right help at the right time.*

Despite significant increases in funding for specialised Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) services since 2016, clear gaps in services remain. Join Westminster Insight’s Closing the Gaps in Perinatal Mental Health Services digital conference, as we discuss putting PMH and wider services at the heart of communities, ensuring all families receive timely and effective help.

Hear from Zoe Clark-Coates MBE, Co-Chair of the Pregnancy Loss Review, to get the latest updates on the review. Understand how you can provide sensitive care, using appropriate language, to families experiencing loss.

Leaders and experts-by experience, across perinatal and maternity services, mental health, social services, and the third sector will focus on early intervention and holistic PMH support.

Understand how you can improve cultural sensitivity, trust, and participation in services for underserved communities. We will spotlight the experiences of mothers from across Black, South Asian, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.

Hear from specialist services for those facing multiple adversities such as poverty, substance misuse, and domestic abuse, to understand how to tailor support for vulnerable women. Get inspiration on best practice from organisations such as Birth Companions, Action on Postpartum Psychosis, and Safe Lives.

We will also look at examples of impactful service provision specifically aimed at supporting fathers and LGBTQ+ parents. Scott Mair, Founder of the Fathers Beacon, and Dr Susan Pawlby, Chair of the Brazelton Centre UK, will explore reducing the risks and escalation of perinatal mental health problems, by using a family approach to service provision.

*MBRRACE-UK “Saving Lives Improving Mothers’ Care” report, November 2022

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Join your colleagues from schools and colleges, police, local authorities, charities, children’s services, technology providers and online platforms at this timely and important event.

Join Westminster Insight’s timely Online Safety Conference, chaired by Susie Hargreaves OBE, CEO of the Internet Watch Foundation to understand the steps you can take to safeguard children online.

At this conference you will:

• Gain insights on the latest technologies and grooming tactics used by perpetrators of online abuse with representatives of the UK Council for Internet Safety, Ofcom, the National Crime Agency (NCA), Protect and Prepare Board, and The Lucy Faithful Foundation. 

• Hear a keynote address from Rt Hon Sir Jeremy Wright KC MP, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Digital Regulation and Responsibility, on the the implications of the Online Safety Bill, including new statutory roles and responsibilities.

• Hear from Snapchat’s global head of platform safety, Jacqueline Beauchere, on steps being taken to keep young people safe. 
• Learn directly from young people to understand what they need from you and how to mitigate the impacts of social media on young people’s mental health. 
• Will Gardner OBE, CEO of Childnet, and David Wright, Director of the UK Safer Internet Centre and CEO of SWGfL, will discuss how to effectively teach online safety to children and young people.  
• Attend a spotlight session on how to communicate online safety with neurodiverse children and young people.  
• Discuss working together to protect young people from harm – we will hear best-practice multi-agency responses to local online harms and peer-on-peer abuse.

Network with peers across the country on our interactive virtual platform. 

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