The conference will be led by Philip Winterbottom, Cygnet’s Head of Safeguarding, and David Wilmott, Cygnet’s Director of Nursing.
This will be a free of charge, CPD accredited event.
Topics covered on the day by Cygnet colleagues, service users and external guest speakers will include:
- A Year In Review – Safeguarding At Cygnet
- Contemporary Challenges in Safeguarding
- Freedom To Speak Up – Building a Dedicated Resource
- Transitional Safeguarding and Health
- Co-producing Safeguarding, Committing to Safeguarding Together
- Safeguarding in the Independent Health Sector
- Escaping Constant Connection – How Has Technology Facilitated Coercive Control
- Empowerment Vs Protection – Mental Capacity and Safeguarding
The event will also host Cygnet’s Annual Safeguarding Awards.
Our guest speakers
Kenny Gibson MBE
Kenny Gibson is the Deputy Director for NHS Safeguarding, overseeing several portfolios including tackling abuse, exploitation, radicalisation and violence. He leads nationally on Contextual Safeguarding; Trauma Informed Care; Prevent in the NHS and Child Protection Information System.
Having begun his NHS career as a laundry assistant in 1980 at a mental health unit, Kenny was encouraged to become a nursing assistant and then trained as a nurse and then a midwife.
Kenny has held various operational, management and strategic posts in both community and public health but always with nursing at the heart of these roles.
Prior to becoming the Head of Safeguarding for NHS England, Kenny was the Head of Public Health Commissioning for London.
Kenny is passionate about connecting with and listening to patients, carers and health practitioners in order to improve services and experiences within the NHS, as well as to empower people about their own well-being.
Kenny was awarded an MBE in the 2022 new year’s honours for services to leadership in healthcare.
You can follow Kenny on Twitter at: @KennyGibsonNHS or @NHSSafeguarding
Chelle Farnan
Chelle Farnan is the Liberty Protection Safeguards Clinical Lead (East) and Co-Chair National Liberty Protection Safeguards Clinical Reference Group, NHS England
You can follow Chelle on Twitter at: @Chelleefarnan
Paige Barrs
Paige Barrs is an Early Intervention Domestic Abuse Advisor, Cambridgeshire Police; Paramedic, East of England Ambulance Service, Domestic Abuse Champion and survivor.
You can follow Paige on Twitter at: @paigekmbarrs
Dez Holmes
Dez Holmes is the Director of Research in Practice, a not-for-profit organisation that since 1996 has been supporting those who work with children, families and adults to use evidence in their practice and leadership.
Prior to this, Dez was the Programme Manager at C4EO responsible for Capacity Building. She previously worked in local government establishing and managing integrated early intervention services to families and previously managed multi-agency prevention and early intervention programmes (YISPs).
Dez has several years’ experience of training and workforce and leadership development; she is the Programme Director for the Practice Supervisor Development Programme. Her practice experience is largely within youth offending services and early help. She is particularly interested in adolescence, transitions, risk and participatory practice; Dez has led Research in Practice’s work on Adolescent / Transitional Safeguarding; she is the Programme Director for the Tackling Child Exploitation Programme and also chairs the Contextual Safeguarding UK Advisory Group.
Dez chairs the Advisory Group for The Staff College, which develops leadership capacity across local authority children’s services; and is a member of the NICE Implementation Strategy Group, and sits on a number of Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) policy committees and on several research advisory boards. During 2021-22 Dez was a member of the Evidence Group, supporting the Review of Children’s Social Care, and is also a trustee of Family Action, a large charity providing practical, emotional and financial support to families who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation.
You can follow Dez on Twitter at: @dez_holmes
