Issue - meetings

The Board received the verbal report of the Halton Safeguarding Adults Board (HSAB) Annual Report for 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017.  The report was presented by Audrey Williamson, Chair of the HSAB.

It was noted that the Annual Report fulfilled one of the Safeguarding Adults Board’s three core statutory duties which were to:

• Develop and publish a strategic plan setting out how they would meet their objectives and how their member and partner agencies would contribute;
• Publish an Annual Report detailing how effective their work had been; and
• Commission safeguarding adults reviews (SARs) for any cases which met the criteria for these.

It was reported that all members of HSAB, HSAB sub-group chairs and the Safeguarding Adults Partnership Forum members were invited to submit an annual summary of their work activity.  The focus of work activity addressed HSAB’s priorities as identified from the 2015-16 Annual Report, Performance Framework and Strategic Plan (2016-2018), in addition to acknowledging local and national safeguarding adults emerging issues, trends and policies throughout the year.

The report provided a summary analysis of the data gathered from both NHS Halton Clinical Commissioning Group and Halton Borough Council’s Safeguarding Adults Collection and highlighted what this information meant for informing the work priorities for 2017-18. 

RESOLVED:  That the report be noted.