Adult care chief calls for all to help increase safety
ROCHDALE’S annual Safeguarding Adults Week was back online this week with the theme of subject of creating safer cultures.
It is focusing on sharing key safeguarding information for practitioners working with vulnerable adults and residents across the borough.
The week is also providing a key opportunity for public and practitioners to engage in a variety of key adult safeguarding themes and to highlight help and support available locally.
Themes include information on how to stay safe online, safeguarding mental wellbeing, information to prevent self-neglect, and how to protect people from adult grooming.
Amanda Clarke, the independent chair of Rochdale Borough Safeguarding Adults Board, said: “It’s always important to remind people that safeguarding is our collective responsibility and really is everyone’s business.
“The week’s theme of creating safer cultures cuts across a number of important areas and we hope the daily topics can start conversations, raise awareness and make our residents safer.
If anyone has any safeguarding concerns, please do not hesitate to get in touch and your concerns will be looked into immediately.”
Councillor Iftikhar Ahmed, cabinet member for adult care, said: “This is an important event for the borough.
“We can all play our part in creating safer cultures and looking out for each other. The week will help raise awareness around a number of important safeguarding themes, building on our range of partnership work to protect and support vulnerable adults in the borough.
“I am sure it will be another successful and interesting Safeguarding Adults Week.”