National Safeguarding Adults Week 2025

Safeguarding Adults Week is a time for organisations to come together to raise awareness of important safeguarding issues. This year Safeguarding Adults Week is all about ‘Prevention’. 

Throughout the week, we’ll be sharing a range of resources, events, webinars, and information on the daily themes.

🔔 Check back soon for updates and resources.

National Safeguarding Adults Week, 17 to 21 November 2025

• Monday – Change the Conversation

Proactive intervention – about the good things we can do to create safer environments that actively work to prevent abuse. How can we amplify individual voices to reduce the risk of harm, neglect, and isolation?

• Tuesday – Prevention in Practice

What role should leadership play in setting the tone and building more supportive environments? The role of good governance in shifting behaviours towards safer cultures, with a focus on values-based recruitment and meaningful training.

• Wednesday – Creating Empowering Environments

Exploring how empathy, understanding, co-production, and positive risk taking can help create trauma informed approaches.

• Thursday – Trust Your Instincts

Building courage and resilience to speak out. Looking at organisational and individual tools that help develop supportive cultures in which good safeguarding practices can thrive.

• Friday – Celebrate the Safer Cultures

Using examples of good practice to illustrate what we mean by “safer cultures”. Success stories of positive outcomes, constructive conversations, exciting initiatives, and fruitful partnerships.