Safeguarding Adults Project

Building on the success of our original award-winning Elder Abuse project, this purpose of this three year project, funded by Comic Relief, was to identify and protect vulnerable adults receiving residential care in Kingston borough.

The objectives of the project were as follows:

• To recruit volunteer residents' supporters to offer one-to-one visiting to care homes in the borough. The project aims to support and empower older people living in residential care, so that they feel more confident in dealing with issues that affect their quality of life and are enabled to choose appropriate remedies.
• To access residential care homes to identify older people who would benefit from a visiting programme.
• To allocate volunteers to act as 'Home Buddies' with individual older people.
• To promote peer support groups for residents, relatives, staff and carers as a means o providing regular open discussion in care homes.
• To identify and encourage best practice in the involvement of residents and staff in the development of policies and procedures within homes.

This project has now come to an end, as we were unable to obtain funding to sustain it beyond the period funded by Comic Relief.

To find out what to do if you are concerned about a vulnerable adult, follow this link to Kingston Council.