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Wales devotes a week to strengthening safeguarding

Wales will hold its National Safeguarding Week from 9 to 13 November 2026 with five sessions hosted by Regional Safeguarding Boards.

--- The context --- Wales National Safeguarding Week will take place from 9 to 13 November 2026 and will bring organisations and professionals across Wales together around safeguarding awareness, learning and practice. The Regional Safeguarding Boards are organising the activity held during the week. --- The facts --- The British disclosure and barring service (DBS) will contribute its expertise to a number of sessions through Owain Rowlands, DBS Regional Outreach Adviser for Wales. Checks are only one part of that contribution, because eligibility, regulated activity, referral responsibilities and barring also matter, depending on each role. Five activities are confirmed. Cardiff & Vale opens on Monday 9 November, from 10am to 11am, with the fundamentals of DBS. Gwent follows on Monday 9 November, from 2pm to 3pm, with the legal duty to refer. North Wales offers an awareness session on Wednesday 11 November, from 2pm to 3pm. Mid and West Wales delivers the legal duty to refer workshop on Friday 13 November, from 9:30am to 10:30am. West Glamorgan closes on Friday 13 November, from 1pm to 2pm, with harmful behaviour outside the workplace. --- The positions --- The Regional Safeguarding Boards organise and host each session, and DBS contributes disclosure and barring expertise as part of the wider activity. Available guidance notes that the type of check depends on the role and helps each organisation find out which check fits its particular function. --- What remains unknown --- The published information does not detail expected participants or state whether sessions are openly bookable or reserved for specific sectors. It also does not say what materials will remain available afterwards for those unable to attend at the fixed time. --- Unanswered questions --- How will each organisation choose the most useful session for its staff? What steps must someone follow when they hold the legal duty to refer a case? How will harmful behaviour outside the workplace be assessed when barring is considered? What support will organisations receive once the week ends? --- EPM analysis --- From a prevention standpoint, the value of the week lies in bringing clear criteria closer to those who work daily with vulnerable people. That two sessions address the duty to refer and another tackles behaviour outside the workplace extends protection beyond the workplace itself and strengthens a shared culture of early alert across Wales. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, this week matters for its practical and territorial approach, because it places safeguarding in the real calendar of five boards and at concrete times that teams can plan around. Its strength lies in combining fundamentals, the legal duty to refer and behaviour outside the workplace without reducing protection to a single check. It remains to be seen whether that clarity leads to better grounded referrals and to organisations that decide more safely who can work with vulnerable people in Wales throughout the whole year.
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