Safeguarding Adults Week supporting empowerment and prevention

Organisations across Lancashire and South Cumbria are coming together for Safeguarding Adults Week, taking place from 16 to 22 November 2026, with the aim of creating safer communities.

This year’s theme is Every Voice. Every Choice. The campaign highlights the importance of listening to adults and involving them in decisions about their lives, wellbeing and safety.

The week will explore how co-production - working together with adults to shape safeguarding - can support empowerment and prevention. A different safeguarding theme will be explored each day, with topics including: ‘Listening & Person-Centred Conversations’; ‘Creating Safer Communities Together’; and ‘Professional Curiosity’.

Throughout the week, the Safeguarding Adults Boards in Cumbria and Lancashire will be sharing online content that includes national events, learning opportunities and safeguarding briefings.

Lancashire Safeguarding Adults Board have organised an array of training sessions that anyone involved in adult safeguarding is encouraged to book onto. Visit Lancashire Safeguarding Partnership Training

The Ann Craft Trust, a national charity that exists to minimise the risk of abuse of adults, also has a series of online events to book onto and useful resources available via Safeguarding Adults Week 2026 - Links, Resources, and More - Ann Craft Trust

Look out for regular content throughout the week being shared by the ICB and partners using the hashtag #SafeguardingAdultsWeek2026