Please visit our dedicated family, friends, and carers webpage if you are concerned about the safety or wellbeing of an adult with care and support needs, or if you would just like to know more about adult safeguarding and the work of the Safeguarding Adults Board.
On this page you will find resources that should provide an introduction to safeguarding. On this page Making Safeguarding Personal Safeguarding early warning signs What is safeguarding? An introduction to the West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board Next page: Safeguarding practice learning resourc...
About the West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board strategic plan and 2026/27 business plan The West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board Strategic Plan sets out: the vision of the Board, and the outcomes we would like to achieve for the people of West Sussex our aims and objectives for a three year peri...
Version: 1 Published: June 2026 Review due: June 2029 Our sector learning briefing series Our sector learning briefing series has been produced to share learning from our reviews, including learning reviews and Safeguarding Adults Reviews. Each sector learning briefing is aimed at a different are...
A Board priority for 2025/26 was to understand how families are involved in safeguarding processes and enquiries, and what more we can do to promote a ‘Think Family’ approach . To support this, the Board’s Quality and Performance subgroup undertook a case file audit, focusing on family involvement...
In February, we held our annual Board priorities meeting with our members from across the partnership, to decide on our topics of focus for the upcoming financial year (2026/27). The meeting was well turned out, with great attendance from an array of agencies, resulting in a range of ideas, perspe...
Did you know that as of Thursday 4 December 2025 the Action Fraud service has been replaced by a new service, called Report Fraud? Report Fraud is the new service for reporting fraud across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Run by the City of London Police, Report Fraud provides: a home for th...
Background and introduction In October 2025, the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary published a prevention of future death report in relation to Imogen Nunn (known as Immy) . This report highlighted the lack of British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters available to support deaf patients in the communit...
This January the Board Support Team are taking part in the Turning Tides 11 in January challenge; a challenge designed to shine a light on the daily reality faced by people experiencing homelessness. Turning Tides say that a person who is rough sleeping walks an average of 11 miles every day searc...
Last year we launched our learning pathway, designed to take you on a journey through our key adult safeguarding learning resources. Alongside the pathway, we also launched our learning pathway workbook. Knowing that not everybody has the same learning style, we wanted to trial printed versions of...
What is vicarious trauma? You’ve probably heard the term ‘vicarious trauma’ in the course of your work, either during continual professional development training, supervisions, or maybe even in our 2023 Safeguarding Adults Week bulletin on the subject. But, what does it really mean? The British Me...
