Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Summit 2025

Aims:

The Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Summit brought together leaders from across adult social care, health, commissioning, fire services, providers, and partners in Buckinghamshire to:

• Unify leadership through team coaching and shared reflection

• Identify and dismantle systemic barriers to effective safeguarding, including cultural, digital, and behavioural challenges

• Elevate relational safeguarding by fostering empathy, curiosity, and power-sharing

• Co-create strategic priorities that move beyond compliance to inspire meaningful, sustainable change

• Empower leaders to challenge self-sabotaging behaviours and reimagine safeguarding as a collaborative, emotionally intelligent practice

Vision:

The vision of the Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Summit is to reshape safeguarding culture and practice across the county:

• A system rooted in shared leadership, where silos give way to collective responsibility

• Digital tools that serve people, not processes, co-designed to enhance communication, integration, and co-production

• A culture of peer learning and experiential education, where curiosity is celebrated and lived experience shapes practice

• Safeguarding as a relational endeavour, driven by empathy, creativity, and courage, not fear or bureaucracy