News and publications
Midland Heart Annual Safeguarding Report 2023-24
November 2024 - Please take a few minutes to read the annual safeguarding report of Midland Heart Housing Association, whose Safeguarding Board I chair.
SAR Commentary - Fatal Fires
December 2023 - Peter Cheer Consulting has written a commentary designed to help housing and care providers identify practical learning points from a Safeguarding Adults Review which concerned two people with care and support needs who had died in fatal fires.
Safeguarding Adults Week
November 2023 - delighted to have led this webinar for Safeguarding Adults Week alongside colleagues from NCF and Friends of the Elderly, great that as many as 100 people attended. Please click here or on the image for a recording and a copy of the slides.
Evaluating a social care innovation programme
October 2023 - Earlier in the year Peter Cheer and Bridget Warr completed an evaluation of East Riding of Yorkshire Council's Social Care Innovation Programme (SCIP). Our report has now been published and includes valuable learning about how to support care providers with digital applications. In particular, the programme supported each service to implement a digital innovation that they themselves had identified as being the most useful, and this really helped with adoption. Please click here or on the image to download a copy of our report.
Learning from SARs
May 2023 - In his role as an Associate Consultant at the Institute of Public Care (IPC), and working with the Director of IPC, Fiona Richardson, Peter authored this discussion paper on how care providers can learn from Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs). The paper highlights relevant learning from an informal review of 60 SARs published in 2022, and it argues that there should be a mechanism to identify and share with care services the most relevant learning from SARs across the country. At just ten pages it is a very readable document. Please click here or on the image to download from the IPC website.
Safeguarding in care services: developing a positive culture
December 2022 - A blog for Care Management Matters exploring safeguarding culture within care services.