Issue - meetings
Tower Hamlets Safeguarding Adults Board annual report 2015-16
Meeting: 01/11/2016 - Cabinet (Item 5)
5 Tower Hamlets Safeguarding Adults Board annual report 2015-16 PDF 91 KB
Additional documents:
- 5.2a - Appendix 1 - LBTH SAB Annual Report 15 16, item 5 PDF 881 KB
- 5.2b - Appendix 2 - SAB infographic, item 5 PDF 38 KB
- Webcast for Tower Hamlets Safeguarding Adults Board annual report 2015-16
Decision:
DECISION
1. To note the annual report for the local Safeguarding Adults Board for 2015/16.
Action by:
CORPORATE DIRECTOR, ADULTS’ SERVICES (D. RADLEY)
(Interim Strategic Manager for Adult Safeguarding (P. Davis)
Minutes:
Councillor Amy Whitelock Gibbs, Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Services, introduced the report and also introduced Christabel Shawcross, the new Chair of the Tower Hamlets Adults Safeguarding Board. Christabel then addressed Cabinet to give them an update on the Board’s work over the previous year and their plans for the future.
She highlighted that a key activity of the Board at the moment was strengthening the links between partner organisations so that they worked better together and an important role for the Chair was in challenging all partners to improve their performance.
Particular issues that were being tackled at the moment ranged across a wide range of areas but examples included:
· Improving the life chances of adults with learning difficulties including tackling safeguarding issues and reducing the number of early deaths.
· Promoting awareness amongst less visible groups on counteracting abuse, domestic violence, neglect and similar.
· How to make vulnerable adults more aware of how they could prevent problems for themselves.
· A better understanding of referral patterns.
The Mayor thanked Christine Shawcross for her presentation he highlighted how important it was to improve accountability to vulnerable adults.
Councillor Amy Whitelock Gibbs also thanked Christabel Shawcross and also Brian Parrot who had been Chair the previous year. She assured the Mayor that she met regularly with the Chair and others in relation to the work of the Board and that there was lots of work that could be built on. She noted the need to improve involvement from users and the public.
The Mayor agreed the recommendation as set out in the report.
RESOLVED
1. To note the annual report for the local Safeguarding Adults Board for 2015/16.