Financial Abuse webinar, Monday 13 June, 11am – 12:30pm

The Connexional Safeguarding Team is organising a Safeguarding webinar on the subject of Financial Abuse. We will look at different aspects of financial abuse and how we can help to protect ourselves and more vulnerable people in our congregations from becoming prey to it. The line up will be as follows and we very much hope people will be able to attend: 

11:00 Tim Carter – Director of Safeguarding: Host. Also giving an Introduction

11:05 Rep from Hourglass (Action on Elder Abuse): research on abuse of elders, including financial abuse

11:15 Sandra MacDonald – former public Guardian for Scotland speaking about Lasting Power of Attorney

11:40 Adam Carter, Senior Project Officer for the National Trading Standards Scams Team and the “Friends Against Scams” Project speaking about financial scams and how they can be avoided

11:50 Trainer from Surviving Economic Abuse (Prerecorded video)

12:00 Mark Brooks, Chairman of Mankind Initiative

12:10 Daphne Franks – Predatory Marriage

12:20 Revd Kathy Brooks – Hospital Chaplain: the church perspective 

If you would like to attend, please register here.

The webinar will also be recorded and put up on the Safeguarding pages of our website. So if you are interested but busy at 11am on Monday 13 June, then please email littlek@methodistchurch.org.uk and she will add your details to her list of people needing to be sent the link once it is available. In the meantime, you may be interested in the range of Safeguarding webinars already available to watch on a range of subjects from dementia to domestic abuse and meeting the needs of survivors to bullying:

www.methodist.org.uk/safeguarding/webinars/ 

Kate Little, Safeguarding Casework Supervisor