DECISION

1.    To note the annual report for the Local Safeguarding Adults Board for 2016/17

Action by:

CORPORATE DIRECTOR, HEALTH, ADULTS AND COMMUNITY (D. RADLEY)

(Interim Strategic and Governance Manager for Adult Safeguarding (P. Swan)

The Mayor introduced the Local Adult Safeguarding Board’s Annual Report. He then introduced Christabel Shawcross the Independent Chair of the Local Safeguarding Adults Board who provided a summary of her Board’s report.

She introduced herself to the meeting and welcomed the Mayor’s acknowledgement of the importance of the work of the Board. She stated that, along with the Lead Cabinet Member, she had been able to bring fresh eyes to the annual report which she thought had been valuable.

She then took Cabinet through the highlights of the report and particular issues to note, including on improvements in data capture and reporting, the number of referrals and reviews, and how cases where risk had been identified had been tackled.

She then looked at issues that the Board would be examining in the next year such as prevention plans and work in conjunction with the Safeguarding Children’s Board. She stated how important it was to work to reduce any abuse that was taking place. Finally she highlighted lessons learnt from previous cases where things went wrong.

During discussion, Cabinet heard about the issues that had been raised at the Overview and Scrutiny Committee meeting the previous week. They also discussed a number of other issues including:

·         Lessons learnt from recent reviews of the work of the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board that could be applied to adult safeguarding.

·         The challenge of the transition from children’s to adults’ social care.

·         It would be important to report back next year on recent discussions with the Cabinet, Overview and Scrutiny Committee and others.

·         If there were any key points noted from the recent OFSTED report.

The Mayor welcomed the report. In particular he noted the importance of encouraging people to feel free to come forward to report concerns. He agreed the recommendations as set out.

RESOLVED

1.    To note the annual report for the local Safeguarding Adults Board for 2016/17

Christabel Shawcross, presented the Annual Report. To summarise, the four main areas which required development were identified as performance data- introduction of a dashboard, modern day slavery, an integrated approach, learning from safeguarding reviews and embedding this learning into frontline staff.

Dr Everington asked if the people on the safeguarding list are discussed at the integrated care multi-disciplinary meeting and if adults with safeguarding concerns are flagged on the GP computers. Denise Radley, Corporate Director of Health, Adults and Community, responded to Dr Everington’s questions. She said that it is unlikely that all of the adults on the safeguarding list would be discussed at the multi-disciplinary meeting.  There was a query raised about GP systems flagging adults with safeguarding concerns.

The Chair thanked Ms Shawcross for her report.