Thank you for supporting Safeguarding Adults Week 2025.
On this page we’ve gathered short summaries of the various workshops we ran at our 2025 Safeguarding Adults Conference in Nottingham. Below you’ll also find links to recordings of the numerous online seminars we ran throughout the week.
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Safeguarding Adults Week Online Seminars
- Learnings from gambling in sport
- A holistic approach to the prevention of abuse in sport
- Sexuality and relationships in the lives of people with learning disabilities
- Preventing forced marriage
- MacIntyre’s Everyone Everywhere initiative
- Trust your instincts – physical abuse and safeguarding adults
- HeadSAFE Football and player welfare
- Grief Disco and grief support
- Listening to the voices of sport participants
Ann Craft Trust Safeguarding Adults Conference 2025 – Workshop Slides
Access the links below to read short summaries of these workshops, and to download the presentations. You can also explore further resources relating to the topics each workshop covered.
Keynote Sessions
Morning Workshops:
- How safeguarding adults reviews can help prevent further abuse by Rosalind Smith
- Beyond the game: Preventing Domestic Abuse in Sport & Activity by Broxtowe Women’s Project
- Preventing Modern Slavery: Learnings from exploitation of vulnerable workers in the UK by the GLAA.
Afternoon Workshops
- Poor Choice or No Choice? Improving safeguarding for adults at risk of exploitation by Dr Alison Gardner.
- Prevention How Charities can develop a supportive culture to ensure good safeguarding practice, by Blind Veterans.
- Me(n) too: Exploring prevention and support for male victims / survivors of sexual abuse by We are Survivors.