Sunderland Safeguarding Adults Board (SSAB) will again be participating in National Safeguarding Adults Week, known locally as Safeguarding Learning Week, and in 2026 this takes place 16th – 22nd November. Locally it is used to highlight Sunderland’s Safeguarding Adults Awareness Campaign, coordinated by SSAB. The Board has membership from a range of organisations who help and support people in Sunderland with health, social care and other issues. These organisations want to help people to have a greater awareness of what being safe means.
Sunderland Safeguarding Learning Week 2026
For 2026, we will again team up with Sunderland Safeguarding Children Partnership (SSCP) to deliver a timetable of events (some online, some in person) aimed at professionals, on a range of safeguarding themes. The overall theme for this year is yet to be nationally announced – keep checking back to this page for more information nearer the time.
Local events, once confirmed, can booked via our events & training booking system. To access all Sunderland’s training and learning events concerning safeguarding, follow this link. Please note you will be required to register prior to booking.
Please check back as communications will be updated as more sessions are confirmed.
#SafeguardingLearningWeek
#SafeguardingSunderlandTogether
As part of the resources generated for previous Safeguarding Learning Weeks, you can also view:
A short video from 2022 of Mike Crozier, Head of Adult Social Care, Sunderland City Council, talking about the importance of multi-agency partnership working through SSAB, keeping people safe, addressing abuse & Making Safeguarding Personal: Multi-Agency Working and Safeguarding Adults (Note: external link to YouTube page)
A webinar on the Prevent (anti-radicalisation) process, presented by Stephen Laverton, Strategic Manager Community Safety & Safeguarding, Adult Social Care, Sunderland City Council and Lisa Punn, Service Manager, Together For Children: Prevent & Channel Webinar – Safeguarding Learning Week 2025 (Note: external link to YouTube page)
Safeguarding Resources
Additional resources are show below: these links are for resources that SSAB has developed which organisations can use to raise awareness of safeguarding adults all year round.
Abuse of adults is wrong. Help to keep people safe – your friend, your neighbour, your relative, yourself. Recognise it. Report it. Stop it.
#NationalSafeguardingWeek
#SafeguardingIsEverybodysBusiness
Safeguarding Children and Adults Leaflet 2022
SSAB Poster A (2024): For Public
SSAB Poster B (2024): For Professionals
National Safeguarding Adults Week Information
The Ann Craft Trust coordinates National Safeguarding Adults Week. The theme for Safeguarding Adults Week 2026 will be announced later this year. Each day, there will be a focus on a specific topic to facilitate conversations around the theme – these topics will be announced by Ann Craft Trust at the same time as the theme.
Resources from 2025 and the previous National Safeguarding Adults Weeks can be found on the Ann Craft Trust website: Ann Craft Trust – Safeguarding Adults Week 2025