Welcome to Safeguarding Week 2025
The Safeguarding Children Partnership, Safeguarding Adults Board and Calderdale organisations are preparing for Safeguarding Week 2025 to raise awareness about safeguarding children and adults and the importance that safeguarding is everyone’s business.
See Safeguarding Week Programme 2025 for all information on events and booking information
Calderdale is again, taking part in a West Yorkshire wide Safeguarding Week where each Local Authority will host a day each, to present a topic of their choice and all practitioners and managers from across West Yorkshire can attend all the events:
Monday: Hosted by Leeds: Financial Exploitation and Abuse / Child Exploitation – The Rise of AP Parties / County Lines in West Yorkshire / Cuckooing! Its Happening in West Yorkshire
Tuesday: Hosted by Kirklees: Learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews, Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews and Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews
Wednesday: Hosted by Wakefield: Creating and Inclusive Environment / Pride in Practice: Supporting and Safeguarding LGBTQIA+ Young People / Alcohol Use, Self-Neglect and Barriers to Support; A Spotlight on Steven / Engaging with Men
Thursday: Hosted by Calderdale: Growing Up is a Process Not an Event: Transforming Transitions / Domestic Abuse and the Adult Child- A Mother’s Story
Friday: Hosted by Bradford: Exploring the Aspects of Modern Day Slavery / CSE and Missing Children
If you have any questions about Safeguarding Week, please contact: Sally Fletcher Sally.Fletcher@Calderdale.gov.uk.
Julia Caldwell
Safeguarding Partnerships Manager, Domestic Homicide Review Lead
Calderdale Safeguarding Adult Board & Safeguarding Children Partnership
Please watch the videos below from partners across Calderdale.
Julia Caldwell - Calderdale Safeguarding Partnerships Manager
Marianne Huison - Independent Chair Calderdale Safeguarding Adults Board
Julie Jenkins - Director of Children and Young Peoples Services, Calderdale Council
Ian Bennett - Director of Nursing ICB with Luke TurnBull and Emma Ajmal
Charlie Johnston - Voluntary and Community
Carol Petropoulos and PC Robinson -Calderdale College
Evaluation and Feedback
Please take the opportunity to share your thoughts and evaluate the sessions that you have accessed during Safeguarding Week 2025.
It’s crucial that we get as much feedback as possible so that we can continue to learn from, and improve our future programme of events.