Poverty, safeguarding and adult social care
Poverty, safeguarding and adult social care
Delivered online using Teams
13:30 - 15:00 Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Join an interactive knowledge exchange session to share experience and good practice around issues of poverty, safeguarding and adult social care.
Insights will help to identify specific areas of practitioner need and will inform Research in Practice’s learning offer to Partners across adults services.
Learning outcomes
As a result of attending this workshop participants will be able to:
- Consider the connections between poverty and safeguarding adults.
- Share knowledge and experience from your context to help inform practice.
- Identify areas of learning which would be beneficial to practitioners in adults services.
Audience Types
Practitioners
Principal Social Worker (PSW)
Team leaders
Senior practitioners
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Person-centred practice | Safeguarding | Effective assessments and outcome based support planning | Direct work with individuals and families | The role of social workers | Values and ethics | Developing confident and capable social workers | Assuring good social work practice and development | Promoting and supporting critical analysis and decision-making
CQC - Safe | Effective | Caring
PCF - Values and ethics | Diversity and equality | Rights, justice and economic wellbeing | Critical reflection and analysis | Knowledge
RCOT - Understanding relationship | Service users | Communication | Identify needs
Radical safeguarding toolkit for homelessness
The toolkit offers a new approach to safeguarding adults experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantage, rooted in social justice. It explores principles of power, autonomy, solidarity and accountability in adult safeguarding.
Safety Matters: Practitioners’ Handbook - Revised Third edition (2019)
Safeguarding adults means protecting a person’s right to live in safety, free from abuse, neglect, violence and exploitation. It is about promoting individuals’ wellbeing and preventing both the risk of, and the experience of, abuse and neglect wherever possible.
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