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Meeting: 12/12/2018 - Cabinet (Item 275)

275 Devon Safeguarding Adults Board Annual Report 2017/2018 pdf icon PDF 123 KB

Annual Report of the Devon Safeguarding Adults Board charting progress within Devon of national expectations and safeguarding activity.

 

Ms Sian Walker, Independent Chair of the Devon Safeguarding Adults Board to attend the meeting.

 

[NB: The Safeguarding Board Annual Report will also be available, in due course, at: https://new.devon.gov.uk/devonsafeguardingadultsboard/

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Minutes:

(Councillors Connett and Whitton attended in accordance with Standing Order 25(2) and spoke to this item).

 

Ms Sian Walker, Independent Chair of the Devon Safeguarding Adults Board, attended and spoke at the invitation of the Cabinet to present the Board’s Annual Report.

 

The Cabinet received the Annual Report of the Devon Safeguarding Adults Board charting progress within Devon of national expectations and safeguarding activity. This included the 2017/18 priorities of improving people’s experience of safeguarding and delivery of “Making Safeguarding Personal” across all partners, the prevention of harm and neglect in care and health services and improving awareness and application of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and Best Interests for people.

 

It also reported on the work of the DSAB sub groups such as the Mental Capacity Act, the Safeguarding Adults Review Core Group, the Learning and Improvement Group, Operational Delivery and Community Reference Group.

 

Furthermore, the Report outlined the 2018-19 Business Priorities which included ensuring that people in Devon felt safer, protecting people from harm by proactively identifying people at risk, whilst promoting independence and increasing the legal literacy of practitioners in respect of the MCA.

 

The Report concluded with the key achievements that had been made with partner agencies including the Police, the Council, Healthwatch Devon, Devon, the Dorset and Cornwall

Community Rehabilitation Company, HM Prison Exeter, Probation Service, Public Health Devon, Clinical Commissioning Groups, NHS and Ambulance etc.

 

It was MOVED by Councillor Leadbetter, SECONDED by Councillor McInnes, and

 

RESOLVED that the Report be welcomed and Cabinet place on record its thanks to the Chair and those involved in the production of the Report.

 

[NB: The Safeguarding Board Annual Report will also be available, alongside other documentation, such as Safeguarding reviews at:

https://new.devon.gov.uk/devonsafeguardingadultsboard/



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