Promoting safer cultures is all about how organisations and individuals can take steps to minimise harm occurring in the first instance. It’s also about embedding appropriate policies and procedures so people will know how to report a concern and organisations know how to respond. This session will explore how to start difficult conversations about safeguarding adults and how organisations and individuals can develop cultural competencies to respectfully respond to the needs of the diverse populations they support.
About the speaker
Kenny Gibson is NHS England’s Deputy Director for Safeguarding, overseeing several portfolios including tackling abuse, exploitation, radicalisation and violence nationally.
He leads on Contextual Safeguarding; Trauma Informed Care; Prevent in the NHS and Child Protection Information System. Having begun his NHS career as a laundry assistant in 1980 at a mental health unit, Kenny was encouraged to become a nursing assistant and then trained as a nurse and then a midwife.
Kenny has held various operational, management and strategic posts in both community and public health but always with nursing at the heart of these roles. Prior to becoming the Head of Safeguarding for NHS England, Kenny was the Head of Public Health Commissioning for London. Kenny is passionate about connecting with and listening to patients, carers and health practitioners in order to improve services and experiences within the NHS, as well as to empower people about their own well-being. Kenny was awarded an MBE in the 2022 new year’s honours for services to leadership in healthcare.