March 2023 Welcome to the March edition of the BCSSP newsletter. We will publish a newsletter quarterly, if you wish to add any content please contact Sophie Brown. Message from Fiona Field, Independent Chair:   Hello and Welcome to our newsletter from the Bath and North East Somerset Community Safety and Safeguarding Partnership, I am delighted to have joined the Partnership as the new Independent Chair since the 3rd January 2023.   I thought it would be helpful to describe my background and also how I hope we will progress the important work of the Partnership this year and into the forthcoming years. I have had a career in both social care and in the NHS for 38 years in Cheshire. I started work with long stay psychiatric patients, moving them from a hospital ward and into community settings, most people having never had their own room or privacy. It taught me valuable lessons about institutional care and the effects this can have on a person’s life.   I have worked with all age groups, and in both commissioning and directly providing care.   I have worked in multi disciplinary teams for most of my career and have found these to be the most co-ordinated, effective way to provide care around an individual.   I have been a family carer 4 times giving me good understanding of how to involve family members in the planning and delivery of care to their loved one at the most vulnerable time of their life.   I have been a Trustee at a hospice in Plymouth for 6 years and I am very proud of the work the teams do to support and care for individuals and their families at home. As a Trustee, I helped establish a young carers charity where I met inspiring young people looking after their parent or sibling whilst trying to maintain school, friends and aspirations for their life.   I have chaired the Safeguarding Adults Board for Cornwall and The Isles of Scilly for 6 years and continue to do so. We have achieved many successes as well as continuing with challenges but as I am a keen advocate of partnership, I see this as the way to achieve progress. I see this partnership approach in action in Bath and North East Somerset with willingness to improve together.   I am planning an away day for members of the Partnership on 21st April – we will all have opportunity to plan and implement changes to streamline the work of the Partnership and bring opportunities to deliver practical solutions for our local area. The Peer Review in June 2022 gave us a valuable insight into the Partnership with recommendations for improvement that will guide us to bring about the changes. I have spent time joining current groups that support the work of the Partnership and meeting individuals to hear their views in how to improve. I hope that we will continue to build on the great work so far.   Bath and North East Somerset has an innovatory Partnership in place that has identified shared priorities for community safety and safeguarding. As a Partnership, it will be our role to ensure these are being addressed locally. I look forward to meeting many more people in the local area and also raising the awareness of the Partnership and its’ important work. Spotlight On: Cuckooing Cuckooing is a practice where people take over a person’s home and use the property to facilitate exploitation; it takes the name of cuckoos who take over the nest of other birds. People who choose to exploit will often target the most vulnerable in society and establish a relationship with the person to access their home. Threats are often used to control the person and it is common for perpetrators to have access to several cuckooed addresses at once. In B&NES, more notifications are being received where cuckooing is suspected. You can find out more about cuckooing by watching the video above and from The National County Lines Coordination Centre which has developed e-learning around cuckooing which can be accessed here. BCSSP Development Day   The BCSSP Executive Group are having a development day on 21st April. We would be interested to hear any feedback you have on the structure and work of the partnership, if you have anything you would like to share please email sophie_brown@bathnes.gov.uk by the 12th April. Korsakoff Syndrome   The BCSSP were made aware of concerns about a person’s physical, cognitive, and emotional presentation. Alcohol use was an influential factor for this person and the main learning point for partners is responding to persons with care and support needs relating to alcohol use and the resultant cognitive impairment.   In response to this, the BCSSP has published a 7-minute learning briefing on Korsakoff Syndrome which can be accessed here.   If your organisation has any experience of working with anyone with Korsakoff Syndrome and has a case study they wish to share with the partnership, please let us know. Easter HAF Provision   The Holiday Activity and Food (HAF) programme is available at no cost to children and young people in receipt of free school meals.   Details of activities available, and how to book, can be found in the B&NES HAF Brochure. At the Executive Group meeting in January, it was agreed that audits completed by the BCSSP can be published on the website. We are currently developing an audit tab so they are easily accessible and we would actively encourage you to share these in your team meetings and across your organisations.   The BCSSP Business Unit has recently attended the modular training facilitated by SCIE on SARs in Rapid Time. This included an overview of the model process, principles, and participants, frontloading the preparation and organisation of the SAR, completing an early analysis report, and drawing out system findings. It is hoped that going forward this will be used within the BCSSP where appropriate. Further information can be found on the SCIE website.   Annual Report   It is that time of year when the BCSSP Business Unit will be contacting you for input to the Annual Report. You will shortly receive the standard form which includes the Key Performance Indicators, and this year we also ask if you have any case studies you wish to share. Due to the number of concerns raised regarding self-neglect and neglect, we have identified this as a theme.   If you have anything you wish to share please contact sophie_brown@bathnes.gov.uk. Please remember that the report will be published so the case studies need to be anonymised and individuals/families non-identifiable. Contact Us If you have any queries of suggestions for the BCSSP website and/or newsletter, please contact Sophie Brown.

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