National Safeguarding Adults Week and CSAB Annual Conference

National Safeguarding Adults Week is coordinated by The Ann Craft Trust and is an opportunity for organisations to come together to raise awareness of important safeguarding issues. The aim is to highlight key safeguarding key issues, start conversations and raise awareness of safeguarding best practice.

The theme of this years NSAW is 'Prevention- 'Act before abuse.' The week of action this year is the 17th to 21st of November 2025 and we will publish more information and resources in connection with the week in due course.

Take a look at some of the activity CSAB undertook in 2024 during NSAW 2024 below:

Webinar on professional curiosity

On day 1 of Safeguarding Adults Week 2024 CSAB launched a webinar to tie in with the Day 1 theme, the webinar supports practitioners to understand professional curiosity.

Watch professional curiosity - Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB

Daily briefing of the events

During the week of action, CSAB published daily briefings signposting to information and resources.  Once briefings are published you can view them below:

National Safeguarding Adults Week-daily 5-Minute Briefings:

CSAB 2nd Annual Conference learning event slides:

National Safeguarding Adults Week 2023

The following 3 lunch & learn sessions were developed and facilitated by practitioners and launched during National Safeguarding Adults Week 2023: