New Safeguarding Arrangements for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

The Safeguarding Partners (Cambridgeshire County Council, Peterborough City Council, Cambridgeshire Constabulary and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group) have agreed the new safeguarding arrangements set out in the Children and Social Work Act 2017 and can be found here. The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Children Partnership Board (CPSCPB) will continue the work of the previous Local Safeguarding…

Hoarding

Are you, or is one of your colleagues, struggling to work with someone who hoards or self-neglects? Hoarding disorders are challenging to treat, because many people who hoard frequently don’t see it as a problem, or have little awareness of how it’s impacting their life or the lives of others. Many others do realise they…

Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill: easy read

The government has published an easy read guide to the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill. Click here for the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill easy read guide. The Bill amends the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (SCIE at a glance guide), which provides a statutory framework for people who lack capacity to make decisions for themselves (it would do this by…

CQC | New learning resource on hypothermia

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have published the latest in their Learning from safety incidents series which looks at the risk of people developing hypothermia and what providers can do to keep people safe. Introducing the latest post, Debbie Westhead, interim Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, said: “Everyone using health and social care services should expect care and…

What do you know about Adults Safeguarding?

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Adult’s Board would like to find out about what people across the region understand about safeguarding adults at risk of abuse and neglect. This will then help us to get the right information and messages to the community and to professionals to help make Cambridgeshire and Peterborough a safer place to…