JIP e-bulletin No 8 January 2010
Greetings and best wishes for the year ahead from all of us at the Joint Improvement Partnership.
2010 promises to be an exciting and innovative period as we begin to see the results of the hard work put into transforming and personalising social care, and continue to find new ways of delivering good quality services with fewer resources.
In this bulletin we focus on the pressing issue of protecting – otherwise known as safeguarding - vulnerable adults from neglect; and from physical, financial, psychological, emotional, sexual and discriminatory abuse.
In my own authority, Coventry City Council, we see safeguarding as everyone’s business. Towards the end of last year we launched new safeguarding initiatives including a designated phone number for the public to report their concerns, a new information leaflet and held a conference where all partner agencies reaffirmed their commitment to tackle abuse and neglect.
Other authorities in the region have taken significant steps to raise awareness of the issue by working closely with their partners and ensuring their procedures make a difference to peoples’ lives – read about the initiatives in Worcestershire, Sandwell, Stoke-on-Trent, Dudley and Wolverhampton.
Support for local authorities is available from the JIP, Department of Health and the Improvement and Development Agency for local government – details of how they can help are in the bulletin.
Please keep on sharing news and information about your developments, achievements and good practice, by sending details to cathrinalouis@btinternet.com, telephone 0790 8875533.
Thank you.
Brian Walsh
JIP
Director of Community Services
Coventry City Council
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