BSAB Safeguarding Adults Week November 2025 Wed 17 Sep 2025
Safeguarding partners are invited to our multi agency conference - Understanding and Responding to Self-Neglect: Seeing Beyond the Surface on 21st November 2025
Self-neglect remains one of the most complex and challenging areas of adult Safeguarding. It raises difficult questions about autonomy, choice, capacity, and risk, and often sits at the intersection of health, social care, housing and community responses.
This conference will bring together practitioners, leaders, and partners from across the district to explore effective approaches to self-neglect. Through keynote speakers, case study, and multi-agency discussions we will examine:
- Lived experience of those experiencing self-neglect.
- The balance between empowerment, rights, safeguarding and legal literacy, looking at the Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
- Identifying Local learning from reviews to inform local practice.
- Tools, frameworks, and strategies that can support effective interventions.
- Building stronger multi-agency collaboration to improve outcomes.
By the end of the day, delegates will gain deeper insight into the complexities of self-neglect, reflect on their professional roles and responsibilities, and take away practical learning to inform decision-making and practice in their own organisations.
Attendees will have an opportunity to network with each other and access wide variety of information stalls.
Refreshments will be provided.
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Location: Britannia House, Bradford
Date: Friday 21 November
Time: 9am - 2.15pm
Booking: Enable