Issue - meetings

The Divisional Director Commissioning and Partnerships, Glynis Rogers, presented the report and reminded the Board that the Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) would become a statutory partnership under the Care Act 2014.  Sarah Baker had now been appointed as the Independent Chair of the SAB and was also the Independent Chair of the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB). 

In view of the statutory footing of the SAB and the outcome of the OFSTED Inspection, which had indicated a need to strengthen the ‘coordination, focus and impact’ of the LSCB work with the Health and Wellbeing Board, a protocol had been drawn up that this outlined how the SAB and LSCB would work together with the Health and Wellbeing Board (H&WB), including how appropriate items would be reported and raised at the H&WB.

The Board:

(i)  Noted the protocol outlining Barking and Dagenham’s safeguarding partnership arrangements, as set out in the Appendix 1 to the report, which clarified arrangements to secure coordination between the Boards; and

(ii)  Were pleased to note that the arrangements would enable the Chair of the Safeguarding Adults Board and the Local Children Safeguarding Board to interact with the Health and Wellbeing Board whilst maintaining the Chair’s independence.