Issue - meetings
Independent Chair of Adults Safeguarding
Meeting: 25/02/2019 - Overview & Scrutiny Committee (Item 3)
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The Committee will receive a presentation that will outline performance in terms of service delivery and the challenges the Council is facing.
Additional documents:
- 2017-18 Safeguarding Adults Board Annual Report FINAL VERSION, item 3 PDF 1 MB
- O&S presentation - Adult Safeguarding 220219, item 3 PDF 351 KB
- Webcast for Independent Chair of Adults Safeguarding
Minutes:
The Committee will receive a presentation that will outline performance in terms of service delivery and the challenges the Council is facing. The main points of the discussion maybe summarised as follows.
The Committee:
· Noted that the intention is to use the Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SAR) to identify trends and the timeliness of learning from serious cases;
· Was informed that an action plan is being developed after each SAR to highlight issues/themes/concerns and look at where there are repeating issue’s (e.g. neglect; managing medication and how services are commissioned);
· Was advised that the Board has placed significant focus on raising awareness (e.g. so that older adults know how and when to report issues and are empowered to do so especially particularly when the abuse occurs in their own homes);
· Noted that it is important for older adults have support in establishing boundaries within their home/family environment to builds a positive relationship within their family where they may be concerned about how they are treated
· Noted that the independent regulator of all health and social care services in England ,the Care Quality Commission monitors all registered care and are a member of the Safe Guarding Board and they highlight concerns for the Board so if there are safeguarding issues these will be addressed with our partners;
· Was informed that the standards for commissioned services are the same as in-house and the Council have quality monitoring officers for the services provided via commissioned services in homes and in residential accommodation;
· Noted that it is clearly very important if improvements are to be made, and, more importantly, sustained, that local arrangements for safeguarding should be subject to scrutiny and challenge which focuses on ensuring adults are properly safeguarded and their life chances improved. This is where the role of councillors who are involved in scrutiny is crucial;
· Was informed that patients who are consider most at risk of their care escalating into the acute setting are referred to the Integrated Locality Teams who are responsible for joining up and coordinating the care provided by multiple professionals to patients; and
· Noted that the data on the quality of provision is available to families to make an informed decisions and the Council has access to detailed data on providers to make an informed assessment.
The Chair thanked Christabel Shawcross and the Officers for their presentation. Then as a result of consideration of this presentation by the
Committee the Chair Moved and it was:-
RESOLVED
The Committee agreed:
- They would like to regularly revisit the issues highlighted in the discussion and it was suggested that there should be a further discussion on this issue at the November meeting;
- That this could be held in a community setting where services are delivered e.g. Mellish Street on the Isle of Dogs; and
- The Committee should be provided with details of the forth coming consultation on the Adults Safeguarding Strategy.