Prevention - Act Before Abuse
Safeguarding Adults Week 17-21 November 2025
Safeguarding Adults Week is a time for organisations to come together to raise awareness of important safeguarding issues. Working in partnerships allows us to share our knowledge of safeguarding, learn from others and ultimately create safer cultures.
Safeguarding Adults Week 2025 is all about prevention
Usually, when people talk about “safeguarding”, they are talking about the policies and procedures we might put into place to respond to concerns of abuse, or to minimise the risk of a person being harmed or abused again. They are also talking about the lessons we might learn from past cases of abuse.
It’s time to change the conversation.
It’s important to learn the right lessons when things go wrong. But it is much better to prevent abuse from occurring in the first place than it is to respond to instances of harm, neglect, and isolation.
We need the courage and the confidence to act on our instincts, and to speak up when something feels wrong. And we need to build resilient communities in which people know their rights and responsibilities, and understand what to do the moment they have concerns.
Information from the Ann Craft Trust website - https://www.anncrafttrust.org/events/safeguarding-adults-week/.
