Issue - meetings
Meeting: 09/03/2017 - Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 36)
36 Devon Safeguarding Adults Board Annual Report 2015/2016 
PDF 128 KB
Annual Report for 2015/2016 of the Chair of the Safeguarding Adults Board, attached. The Chair of the Board, Siân Walker, will attend to present.
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Minutes:
The Board considered the Devon Adults Safeguarding Board Annual Report for 2015/16, presented by Sian Walker, Independent Chair of the Devon Adults Safeguarding Board.
The report highlighted the role of the Executive Board and other subgroups such as the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) Sub-Group, Operational Sub-Group, Safeguarding Adults Review Group, the Learning and Improvement Group and also the benefits of the themed workshops.
The Business Plan for 2016-19 would focus on improving people’s experience of safeguarding, the prevention of harm and neglect in care and health services, improving awareness and application of MCA, protecting people from harm, identifying people at risk, reducing financial abuse / scams, reducing the prevalence of modern slavery and the PREVENT agenda.
The report also outlined partner key achievements which included, inter alia, increased resources in Sexual Offences and Domestic Abuse Investigation Teams (Police), training for care management staff and improved approaches to quality assurance of safeguarding practice (DCC), a street triage service, information sharing and place of safety suites with Devon Partnership Trust as well as other initiatives and projects with NEW Devon CCG, North Devon Health Care NHS Trust, South Devon and Torbay CCG, the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust and Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust.
Finally, the vision for the future was ‘making safeguarding personal’, so ensuring that services to vulnerable people were person-centred, easy to access and promoted independence as well as ensuring people were supported to keep themselves safe and were able to express what outcomes they wished to achieve.
The Board further questioned how adult’s services and children’s services could work together to either strengthen links or share successes.
RESOLVED that the report be welcomed and the Chair of the Board be thanked for her presentation.
Meeting: 15/12/2016 - Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 22)
22 Devon Safeguarding Adults Board Annual Report 2015/2016 PDF 128 KB
Annual Report for 2015/2016 of the Chair of the Safeguarding Adults Board, attached. The Chair of the Board, Siân Walker, will attend to present.
Additional documents:
Minutes:
This item was deferred to a future meeting.