Online survey launched to educate about adult safeguarding to prevent abuse in Northamptonshire

Taking part in the online survey could help improve the understanding of safeguarding adults.

An online survey has been launched to find out how well people in Northamptonshire understand adult safeguarding and whether they know the signs of abuse to look out for.

To coincide with National Safeguarding Week (November 16 - 22) Northamptonshire County Council has launched the short survey, which aims to highlight adult safeguarding and the role everyone can play in helping to prevent abuse.

Last year, 3,577 concerns over signs of abuse in Northamptonshire, of those 1,062 required further action, 51 of the abuse cases were due to neglect and 30 percent occurred in the person’s home.

Tim Bishop, independent chairman of the Safeguarding Adults Board, said: “This is an important opportunity to find out how people in Northamptonshire and our colleagues recognise how to report a safeguarding concern and what they need to do to report harm and abuse.

“All Northamptonshire residents, whatever their background, are encouraged to complete the survey even if they have not witnessed, or been the victim of abuse.

“The information that is gathered from the survey will provide much needed feedback to help NSAB to raise more awareness across the county.

“We also want to make people aware of the work of the Safeguarding Adults Board and the range of useful resources that are available on the NSAB website.”

The short survey is anonymous and no one will be identified by their answers.

The survey will be open until December 18 and can be found on the Northamptonshire Safeguarding Adults Board website.

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