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.
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...
If there's one thing we learned from 2025, it's that we've got a lot to say. So this year, we're doing things a little differently. You might have noticed that throughout 2025 we circulated a number of special edition newsletters, exploring key safeguarding topics and featuring subject experts fro...
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...
Welcome to the West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board blog, coming to you directly from the Board Support Team. Here you'll find blog posts, featuring input from subject experts, exploring key adult safeguarding topics, as well as discussions about health and adult social care policy, learning, and ...
Here you can find our latest newsletters, bringing you all the headlines and new policies, procedures and guidance from your West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board. Issue 43 | April 2026 In this issue: Our March Board meeting Our Board priorities for 2026/27 UPDATED: Multiple Needs Toolkit NEW: Se...
