Safeguarding Adults Week 2025
Safeguarding Adults Week will be taking place from Monday 17 - Friday 21 November.
Bradford Safeguarding Adults Board (BSAB) will taking part in this year's Safeguarding Adults Week in joining partners and safeguarding specialists from across the Bradford District. This year's BSAB conference will be focusing on self-neglect, understanding it and how to respond. For further details and information on the conference or events taking place during the week, please check this page for regular updates and event listings - BSAB Self-neglect Conference Poster
This year, the Ann Craft Trust and many more safeguarding organisations from across the nation will be coming together to raise awareness of important safeguarding issues. Prevention is this year's overall theme and each day of the week will mark a specific key talking point.
🔹 Monday - Change the Conversation
🔹 Tuesday - Prevention in Practice
🔹 Wednesday - Creating Empowering Environments
🔹 Thursday - Trust Your Instincts
🔹 Friday - Celebrate the Safer Cultures
Ann Craft Trust website - www.anncrafttrust.org
Bradford District Events 2025
Understanding and Responding to Self-Neglect: Seeing beyond the surface - 21st November 2025
Conference
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: 9.00am - 2.30pm
Booking: Enable
Monday 1th November
10:30 am – 11:30 am Learnings from gambling in sport
This one-hour condensed training workshop will focus on the key elements of tackling gambling harms and is appropriate for professionals in any public facing role
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Sexuality & relationships in the lives of adults with learning disabilities
The session will explore attitudes to sexuality and personal relationships and ensure professionals have a consistent approach to promoting the rights of those they support to be sexual beings.
4pm-5pm A Holistic Approach to the Prevention of Abuse in Sport
This seminar draws from research to illustrate the importance of a holistic, collaborative and multi-layered approach to the prevention of abuse in sport.
Tuesday 18th November
3.30-4.30pm Preventing Forced Marriage
Understanding and preventing forced marriage of people with learning disabilities. Other similar forms of coercion and abuse will also be explored, including predatory marriage and deathbed marriage
Wednesday 19th November
9:30 AM - 12:30MD YHMAST Conference - Online Masterclass on Transitional Safeguarding
Transitional Safeguarding – as defined by Holmes & Smale (2018) – is “an approach to safeguarding adolescents and young adults fluidly across developmental stages which builds on the best available evidence, learns from both children’s and adult safeguarding practice and prepares young people for their adult lives.” This framing emphasises the need for a mindset shift, moving away from service boundaries and towards a developmentally consistent, personalised safeguarding response that bridges systemic ‘cliff-edges’ around age 18.
Thursday 20th November
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Trust Your Instincts – Physical Abuse and Safeguarding Adults – Online
We will explore practical ways frontline professionals can prevent serious physical abuse among those they support.