Learning and Podcasts | Learning and Podcasts

This page gives you a list of resources that should inform practice, along with other legislative resources, advice on relevant training and Prevent.

You can listen to our 4 minute podcast on What is safeguarding.

You will also find more information on our What is Safeguarding webpage

This guidance is designed to assist practitioners and providers across agencies to understand what is meant by Making Safeguarding Personal and how to apply it to safeguarding situations.

Read the Making Safeguarding Personal Learning Briefing.

You can listen to our 9 minute podcast, with the voice of a young person about how we aim to safeguard young people between the ages of 17.5 to 25.

This can be listened to in conjunction with our Safeguarding Young People 17.5+ Protocol.

You can also read our learning briefing which accompanies the protocol and the podcast.

Professional curiosity is the capacity and skills of communication to explore and understand what is happening for a person rather than making assumptions or accepting things at face value. It requires skills of looking, listening, asking direct questions and being able to hold difficult conversations.

Find out more about professional curiosity in the Professional Curiosity Learning Briefing.

You can also listen to our 6 minute Professional Curiosity Podcast in conjunction with reading the Learning Briefing

Self-neglect is an extreme lack of self-care, to an extent that it threatens personal health and safety, and it is sometimes associated with hoarding and may be a result of other issues such as addictions. It can sometimes be a result of underlying issues such as:

addiction or substance misuse issues
physical health issues
some mental health issues

Find out more about self-neglect by reading our Learning Briefing, and listen to the accompanying 7 minute self-neglect podcast

Practitioners can follow the pan-Sussex policies and procedures which have a specific section on Multi-Agency Procedures to Support Adults who Self-neglect.

To find out more about the Sussex Adult Death Protocol, you can read our 7 minute briefing.

The Sussex Adult Death Protocol offers a framework for bringing together key agencies to ensure effective collaborative working, rapid risk assessment and information sharing.

The National Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) Analysis Project has developed various briefings intended for a range of audiences. The briefings have incorporated the research findings by examining published SARs, and identifying the learning required.

Briefing for elected members - Analysis of Safeguarding Adults Reviews