Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Safeguarding Children Partnership Board Conference –
Focussing on our priority area of Neglect
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Date and Location:
Date:
24th November 2025
Time:
09:00 – 16:30
Venue
Delta Hotels by Marriott Huntingdon, Hinchingbrooke Business Park, Kingfisher Way, Huntingdon, Pe29 6FL
Our Speaker Contributors Include:
Professor Michael Preston-Shoot
I am Emeritus Professor of Social Work, University of Bedfordshire. I am independent Chair of Greenwich and Somerset Safeguarding Adults Boards, and Joint Convenor of the National Network for Safeguarding Adult Board Chairs. My recent research has covered safeguarding adults reviews, with particular emphasis on self-neglect
James Codling
James has worked in social care for the past 22 years and has delivered training on the Mental Capacity Act for the past 15. Whilst James’s main role is as the MCA and Deprivation of Liberty L&D Manager for Cambridgeshire County Council, he also delivers MCA training for five other local authorities on this topic, is also involved in national research in this area of law and has written articles and guidance that have helped professionals understand how the MCA is to be applied in practice (see: Home page – Executive Functioning, When mental capacity assessments must delve beneath what people say to what they do – Community Care, Safeguarding adults enquiries: do you need consent? – Community Care and the Capacity guide – Recording Tool)
Deborah Rostant
30 years’ experience as a Social Worker. Deborah’s early years in practice were working across East London working in generic Children and Adults services, working throughout a person’s journey.
Deborah went on to work in social housing, quality, and practice in Cambridgeshire and more recently as Head of Social Work for Mental Health in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust. Deborah is currently working for Peterborough City Council in the Quality Practice Team. My passion is to make practice real, not process, remembering we are entrusted with human stories and to advocate for those who find it difficult to advocate for themselves. I have been fortunate to have been on some amazing journeys with individuals who have share their deepest stories with me.
Dr Sally Giddins BA(Hons), MSocSc, DipSW
Dr Sally Giddins is a Practice and Improvement Development Lead for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Partnership Boards (Children and Adults) and an Honorary Visiting Fellow for Anglia Ruskin University. As a qualified social work practitioner and manager Sally has always put the child at the centre of her practice. Sally has worked in children and adults services across voluntary and statutory sectors with a particular interest in engaging young people to safeguard them and to improve their life outcomes. Over the years Sally has worked within further and higher educational establishments, social services, detached youth work, probation services, education welfare, Youth Offending Teams and the Youth Justice Board.
Sally completed her doctoral thesis in 2024 on ‘What factors act as enablers or barriers to child safeguarding practitioners’ maintenance of ‘professional curiosity’ when working with children and families?’ Parents and adults at risk featured within this research influencing how practitioners enabled their curiosity.
Christine Jones
Christine Jones is the Safeguarding Adults Learning & Development Manager at Cambridgeshire County Council. With a Psychology degree, counselling and nearly two decades of experience in adult social care and safeguarding, Christine brings a deep commitment to protecting vulnerable individuals. Her career began in the homelessness sector, supporting young people affected by abuse and addiction, followed by work with a domestic abuse charity where she later served as a Trustee. Christine now leads the design and delivery of comprehensive safeguarding training programmes across Cambridgeshire and other local authorities.
Stall Holders
Becca Bryant – Centre 33
Becca Bryant is a Senior Project Worker with Centre 33’s Young Carers Service. Having been a young carer herself, Becca brings lived experience alongside almost 15 years of professional expertise supporting children, young people, and families across Cambridgeshire. Her previous roles include working as a Family Worker with Cambridgeshire County Council, and she is passionate about ensuring young carers have a voice in shaping the services that supports them.
Conference Programme
09.00 – Arrival and Registration
09.30 – Welcome
Natalie Cowland, Independent Chair, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Independent Safeguarding Partnership Board
09.45 – Self-neglect: learning from safeguarding adult reviews in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and beyond
Professor Michael Preston-Shoot
11.00 – Comfort Break and networking
11.30 – Professional curiosity findings from local doctoral research and relating this to adult safeguarding practice
Sally Giddins BA(Hons), MSocSc, DipSW, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Independent Safeguarding Partnership Boards Service
12:30 – Lunch and networking
13.30 – Risk/Rights and the Mental Capacity Act – Decision-making capacity in vulnerable groups
James Codling, Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Training and Development Manager, Cambridgeshire County Council
14.30 – Comfort break and networking
14.45 – ‘It’s a lifestyle choice’ – Really?!
Christine Jones, Learning and Development Manager, Cambridgeshire County Council and Deborah Rostant, Quality Practice Lead, Peterborough City Council
15.45 – Plenary
16.15 –
Natalie Cowland, Independent Chair, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Independent Safeguarding Partnership Board
*Programme subject to change without notice
150+ Attendees
Speakers and Experts
Networking opportunities
Contact and Information
Who should attend?
This conference is intended for practitioners who work for agencies across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough that support children and their families.
Pricing
The Conference is free but organisations will be charged £75 per person for staff who book a place but do not attend.
Cancellations
Cancellations must be made a minimum of 2 weeks before the conference. Substitutions will be permitted; please email to notify us of any substitutions on the contact details below.
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