Presentation 1
Safeguarding and the Transition from Child to Adult
Introducing the website https://myadultstillmychild.co.uk/ and how Rainbows integrates the Mental Capacity Act into everyday practice.
Jacqui Brown, Safeguarding Lead, Rainbows Hospice
Presentation 2
Single Unified Safeguarding Review in Wales
The Single Unified Safeguarding Review (SUSR) combines the Adult Practice, Child Practice, Mental Health Homicide, Domestic Homicide and Offensive Weapon Homicide review processes in Wales. Launched in October 2024, it eliminates the need for multiple reviews; improves review processes and ensures learning is adopted throughout Wales.
The presentation will take the audience on the journey of the development of the SUSR from initial concept, implementation of SUSR project and subsequent delivery of the SUSR, associated Statutory Guidance and procedures. The presentation will also showcase the flagship Wales Safeguarding Repository which stores all reviews and can be interrogated (using social science and machine learning) to extract learning and good practice.
Liane James, Strategic Engagement Lead, Single Unified Safeguarding Review
Adrian is a Trustee of the AoCPP and Chair of the Practice Learning SIG Chair. Adrian qualified as a Registered General Nurse (1987), Cardiothoracic Nurse (1989) and Registered Health Visitor (1992) and has worked both in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) and East Warwickshire. He has worked in the Safeguarding arena, initially as a Child Protection Nurse Specialist /Named Nurse for Child Protection and from 2004 -2020 as a Consultant/Designated Nurse for Safeguarding Children (incorporating Adult Safeguarding into role from 2011). Adrian managed the Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and hosted Safeguarding Team (working across LLR). As part of role worked with local safeguarding and has chaired a number of inter-agency subgroups, contributed and authored Serious Case Reviews, Adult Learning Reviews and a Domestic Homicide Review Co-Chaired the LLR Channel Panel for 6 years and worked with partners as a CCG prevent lead.
He is Honorary Principal Lecturer at De Montfort University (1999- 2015) School of Nursing and Midwifery. In April 2020 took on a new role and is currently Safeguarding Professional Lead for NHS England. The Midlands NHSE/I safeguarding team covers both East and West Midlands. Adrian is also a Parent Governor of a local school in Leicester.
Jacqui Brown is a neuro- occupational therapist by profession, with clinical experience working in the fields of mental health and traumatic brain injury. Passionate about the human rights of those who are unable to speak for themselves, and those who can but feel un-heard.
Jacqui is a true believer that the Mental Capacity Act (2005) can and does change lives if we have the courage to implement it squarely into practice and not simply pay lip service as a bureaucratic process.
Most recently Jacqui has been working as a Safeguarding Lead in an adult and subsequently children’s and young person’s hospice where decision-making is crucial and deeply personal. Where we have one chance to get things right and the outcome matters.
Liane James started her working career in South Glamorgan County Council in the Careers Service in 1987, before joining South Wales Police in 1990. Her experience is an unusual and eclectic blend of policing and government with a real passion for equality and diversity, influencing strategic partnerships and building and leading teams.
Liane was born and raised in Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan. Sport has always been her passion, as well as serving and protecting the public. She was privileged to represent her country at every level in hockey and was also selected for the Great Britain development squad for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Unfortunately, due to a serious injury, she was forced to retire from international hockey. This then gave her the opportunity to concentrate on her policing career and ultimately, she was honoured to have worked in all ranks in the police service up to Deputy Chief Constable.
Her policing career has enabled her to achieve success at a variety of levels and disciplines. Liane has led significant local, regional and national operations and investigations, which have drawn on her extensive experience to deliver an effective operational response to critical and major incidents. She has achieved this by drawing upon her partnership contacts in the public sector to deliver sustainable response and change. Liane spent 25 years in South Wales Police before relocating to Dyfed Powys Police where she remained until retiring in December 2018.
During her last year of service in the police she was asked by Welsh Government to a evaluate the effectiveness of Domestic Homicide Reviews, the impact upon Welsh Government and its public services. The completed review was submitted and considered by Ministers who then asked Liane whether she would consider implementing the recommendations. In December 2019, Liane joined Welsh Government on a part time basis and commenced delivery of the SUSR project.
Throughout the project Liane worked closely with Cardiff University on creating and establishing the globally unique Wales Safeguarding Repository which uses social and computer science to enable maximum learning from completed reviews.
The SUSR process and the statutory guidance went live on the 1st October 2024 and is now an integral process in Wales to undertake reviews and utilise the learning to safeguard future generations.
I think Child Abuse Review has gone from strength to strength and is of a consistently high standard. We have held numerous events that have been inspiring and enabling, such as the most recent Congresses and the Trainer's conference and award ceremony, the seminars to disseminate lessons from Serious Case Reviews. As resources get ever tighter, professionals have fewer and fewer opportunities to come together to exchange ideas and to learn together. We move more and more into silos because of work pressures. This is not the way to keep children safe. Association of Child Protection Professionals is needed to bring people concerned about child protection together to learn, to think, to shape policy and practice and to disseminate research. No-one else does this.
