Safeguarding Adults Board
The SAB is a statutory requirement for all local authorities for taking the lead role and overall responsibility for adult safeguarding. As a minimum, the SAB membership must comprise of three main statutory partners, these being North East Lincolnshire Council (NELC), Humberside Police and local health services.
The Executive Group
Katie Brown
Paul French
Paula South
Cllr Stan Shreeve
North East Lincolnshire’s Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) consists of:
The Executive Group: Katie Brown, Director of Adult Social Services (NELC); Helen Davis, Director of Quality and Nursing (ICB); Paul French, Chief Superintendent (Humberside Police); and Councillor Stan Shreeve (NELC Portfolio Holder).
The Executive Group is responsible for the SAB Forward Plan and monitoring performance, and oversees the work completed by the Sub-Groups to ensure delivery of the Forward Plan.
SAB members include representatives from services and agencies across NEL, including care providers and the voluntary sector.
The SAB has five Sub-Groups – Domestic Abuse; Adults at Risk; MCA Group; the SAR, SILP & Good Practice Group; and Scrutiny & Assurance.
These work together, within a broader multi-agency approach, to ensure that:
- The principle that ‘all people in North East Lincolnshire feel safe and are safe’ is upheld.
- All partners have policies and procedures in place to underpin safe practice with regard to the Mental Capacity Act 2005, Care Act 2014, and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
- All partners work within and deliver services that are compliant with NEL Safeguarding Procedures.
- Processes are in place to evidence that safeguarding is responsive to risk and need, is accessible to all people living in NEL and promotes choice through the application of a ‘Making Safeguarding Personal’ approach.
- Information sharing protocols between partners are compliant with data protection requirements.
- Diversity and difference is addressed effectively through interagency policy, procedure, guidance and SAB activity.
North East Lincolnshire’s Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) will:
- Co-ordinate and ensure effectiveness of safeguarding arrangements, providing direction and support.
- Seek assurance of safeguarding arrangements through scrutiny and professional challenge.
- Champion the ethos that ‘safeguarding is everyone’s business‘ ensuring the person is always at the centre of what we do, ‘Making Safeguarding Personal’.
It is about both preventing abuse and neglect, and promoting good practice when responding to specific concerns.
There are six key national principles which underpin all Adult Safeguarding work – these being:
- Empowerment – People being supported and encouraged to make their own decisions and be able to give informed consent. i.e. “Individuals are asked what they want as the outcomes from the Safeguarding process and these directly inform what happens.”
- Prevention of harm and abuse – in that it is better to take action before harm occurs. i.e. “Individuals receive clear and simple information about what abuse is, how to recognise the signs and what they themselves can do to seek help.”
- Proportionality – The least intrusive response is made dependent upon but appropriate to the risk presented. i.e. Individuals are sure that the professionals will work in their best interest, and they will only see them and only get involved as much as is needed.”
- Protection – Support and representation for those in greatest need. i.e. Individuals get help and support to report abuse and neglect. They get help so that they are enabled to take part in the Safeguarding process to the extent to which they want to take part.”
- Partnership – Local solutions through services working with their communities. i.e “Communities have a part to play in preventing, detecting and reporting neglect and abuse. Individuals know that staff treat any personal and sensitive information in confidence, only sharing what is helpful and necessary. Individuals are confident that professionals will work together and with them to get the best result for them.”
- Accountability – Accountability and transparency in delivering Safeguarding. i.e “Individuals understand the role of everyone involved in their lives and so do those involved.”
These procedures provide guidance to all NEL SAB partner members on the requirements set out in sections 42 to 46 of the Care Act 2014.
The Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR), Significant Incident Learning Process (SILP) and Good Practice Group
The purpose of the SAR, SILP and Good Practice Group is to ensure, on behalf of the Safeguarding Adults Board, that the responsibilities set out within the Care Act 2014, in particular section 14 of the statutory guidance, is compliant and supports the SAB Vision and Priorities.
Contact details
- [email protected]
- 01472 326118
- Safeguarding Adults Board , 3 Town Hall Square, Town Hall Square, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, DN31 1HX