Teeswide Safeguarding Adults Board
The Teeswide Safeguarding Adults Board is the statutory body that sets the strategic direction for safeguarding.
The Board is responsible for protecting and promoting an adults’ right to live an independent life, in safety, free from abuse and neglect in the Boroughs of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees. The Board is led by Ann Baxter the Independent Chair, and has strong links with a number of local partnerships including Local Safeguarding Children Board’s, and the Community Safety Partnerships across Tees.
Teeswide Safeguarding Adults Board: Training
A range of online training and workbooks can be found on the website. These include:
E-learning
- Dementia E-Learning Course (Alzheimer’s Society and the Social Care Institute for Excellence)
- Domestic Abuse Basic Awareness E-learning Training (Independent Domestic Abuse Service)
- Awareness of Forced Marriage (Safeguarding Children e-Academy)
- Channel General Awareness E-Learning (College of Policing & Met. Police Service)
- Prevent E-Learning (Home Office)
Workbooks
- Safeguarding Adults Awareness Workbook
- Module One: Safeguarding Adults and Learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews
- Module Two: The Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Module Three: Domestic Abuse
- Module Four: Forced Marriage
- Module Five: Female Genital Mutilation
- Module Six: Prevent
- Safe Place Scheme
Safe Place Scheme
Safe Place Scheme locations are venues in the community where people who need extra support can go if they need some help. This ‘help’ can range from a phone call to home, or help with directions.
The idea is that more vulnerable people can use the venues if they are feeling unsafe. Many who benefit from the scheme never actually use them, but the existence of them allows people to feel safer, and go out and about more (live more independently). for more information click here.
NHS Safeguarding App
Have you a smart phone? NHS have developed a Safeguarding guide app which, although aimed at healthcare professionals, covers all the information you will need to keep your beneficiaries safe. The app can be accessed via Apple Store, Google Play or windows store or if you want to access it via the web this can be found at www.myguideapps.com/nhs_safeguarding
