Our Easy Read Annual Report 2023/24
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What this says:
1. What is this report about?
Abuse is when someone hurts you, treats you badly or forces you to do something.
It is also when they don’t give you the care you should be getting to be healthy and safe.
Leeds Safeguarding Adults Board works to keep people safe from abuse.
This work is called Safeguarding Adults.
There are people on the Board from organisations like the Adult Social Care, NHS, and the Police.
2. How people were helped to be safe from abuse.
13,213 people contacted Adult Social Care for help to be safe from abuse.
The types of abuse that people reported most were:
Staff or families not providing the help and support that someone needed.
Someone being hurt or injured.
Someone having money taken from them.
Someone being made to feel sad, upset scared or not important.
9 out of every 10 people said they felt safer after being helped.
3. Making sure people know how about abuse and how to get help.
We provided free public information posters and leaflets.
We had information stalls at some events and in June our posters were displayed across Leeds, including Leeds Market.
We gave talks to community groups about keeping safe from abuse.
People watched our public information film.
It is available with sign language and different languages.
It was shown at meetings like People’s Parliament.
The film is on YouTube “Leeds Safeguarding Adults Board”.
We used social media to share messages about posted safeguarding.
We have 1800 followers on X (Twitter).
We used our newsletter to give information to almost 900 people who work with adults.
We looked at how we work with different communities to help them keep people safe.
We started a project looking at information for faith communities to help them safeguard people.
4. Making sure people in Leeds are at the centre of safeguarding adults work.
We updated our values to make sure we put people at the centre of everything we do.
We looked at feedback about our work from our Citizen Reference Group.
The group was hosted by Advonet.
We had online meetings with 29 community organisations.
They gave us advice about working with adults.
We call these meetings “Friends of the Board” meetings.
We had surveys so that people could give their feedback about our work.
We held an event for people who work with adults.
They talked about organisations working better together to help people at risk of abuse.
5. Making sure people working with adults know about safeguarding procedures.
We promoted “Talk to me, hear my voice”.
It is the Leeds approach to safeguarding adults.
It was developed in 2019 with 9 Citizen groups.
We promoted our strategy about helping people at risk of self-neglect.
Self-neglect is when you are not able to look after your health or care needs and you find it difficult to accept help.
We set up a new group for people working for Housing Associations. They discussed how they safeguard people who live in their homes.
We provided guidance and training to professionals about the Mental Capacity Act.
The Mental Capacity Act is about people’s rights when they cannot make their own decisions.
6. Making sure people’s experiences and feedback helps other people have better experiences.
We held a review about a young woman with a learning disability who had been seriously harmed by a care worker.
Reviews help us learn how people can be better supported and protected.
Our members did assessments to make sure their services use the guidance and training that we give them.
They also checked that they are working to deliver our plans and projects.
Our members shared examples of their good work to support people who self-neglect.
7. Our upcoming plans
Some of the things we want to do:
We will launch our new website.
It will be easier to use than the website we have now.
We will provide safeguarding guidance for faith communities.
We want to find new ways to hear about the experiences of people who have been helped to be safe from abuse.
We want to find new ways to hear what people think about safeguarding work.
We also want to hear ideas about how we can tell more people about abuse and how to be safe.
8. How to get help if abuse is happening to you or someone else.
Please remember that abuse is always wrong.
There are people that can help you.
If you think abuse is happening to you or someone else tell someone you trust as soon as you can.
Don’t worry. You won’t be in trouble if you are wrong.
You can tell Leeds City Council Adult Social Care
Telephone: 0113 222 4401
Email: adults@leeds.gov.uk
If you need help to communicate visit:
You can go to a Council Community Hub and talk to one of the people that work there.
In an emergency call the police on 999.
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Thanks to Easy on the I for the images we have used in this report. |
