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The thin line marks today, 29 September 2026.

Violence

Safeguarding Adults Week

Safeguarding Adults Week falls in November and is run by the Ann Craft Trust for organisations that work with adults at risk. Each day takes a theme — listening and person-centred conversations, choice and control, particular forms of abuse — and partners run free seminars, podcasts and team discussions around them. It is aimed at care providers, sports clubs, housing associations, health services and anyone whose staff might be the first to notice that something is wrong.

2026

16–22 November 2026

Confirmed

Dates confirmed from the organiser’s announcement on 15 September 2026.

Organiser: Ann Craft Trust

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When it falls

Dates are announced by the organiser each year.

Also known as: SAW.

Where it came from

The Ann Craft Trust is a national charity that works to reduce the risk of abuse of adults at risk, through training, safeguarding practice reviews and research with bodies including the Forced Marriage Unit and the Department of Health. It runs Safeguarding Adults Week each November so that organisations across health, care, sport and the voluntary sector explore a different safeguarding theme each day and compare how they prevent, recognise and report harm.

The organiser’s account of the day

How organisations mark it

  • Use the free daily themes and resources to run a short team discussion each day of the week.
  • Check that everyone knows who your safeguarding lead is and exactly how to raise a concern about an adult at risk.
  • Review your safeguarding policy against the week's theme and note what you would actually do differently.
  • Book onto the Trust's free online seminars and the annual safeguarding adults conference.
  • Ask the people you support what would make them feel safe, and record what they say.

Why this exists

Violence & self-harm

1.25 milliondeaths a year from violence-related injuries

Deaths from violence-related injuries worldwide — worldwide, 2024. Source: World Health Organization, Injuries and violence (fact sheet) (2024).

“Of the 4.4 million injury-related deaths, unintentional injuries take the lives of 3.16 million people every year and violence-related injuries kill 1.25 million people every year.”

More figures for this hazard

ObservanceNextKindWhereHazards
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day15 June 2027 ExpectedDayWorldwideViolenceFalls
Domestic Violence Awareness Month1–31 October 2026 ConfirmedMonthUnited StatesViolence

Sources

  1. Safeguarding Adults Week 16-22 November 2026 — Ann Craft Trust — www.anncrafttrust.org, read 15 September 2026.
  2. Safeguarding Adults Week 2025 - Links, Resources, and More — Ann Craft Trust — www.anncrafttrust.org, read 15 September 2026.
  3. About — Ann Craft Trust — www.anncrafttrust.org, read 15 September 2026.

Page last confirmed against the organiser on 15 September 2026.