Issue - meetings

(3.30pm – 3.45pm)

To consider a report relating to the relationship of the Local Safeguarding Adults Board with the Health and Wellbeing Board.

Sean Reynolds, Independent Chair Local Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB), attended the meeting and presented a report relating to the relationship of the LSAB with the Health and Wellbeing Board (HWBB).

It was noted that the LSAB had responsibility for Safeguarding and protecting vulnerable adults from abuse and sought to ensure that all its work was carried out in such a way that positively influenced improved outcomes in all areas of the lives of vulnerable adults in Cheshire East. The main purpose of the Board was to ensure that all organisations providing or commissioning services for vulnerable adults in Cheshire East worked in a co-ordinated way that promoted health and well-being, safeguarding and the protection of vulnerable adults from abuse. Therefore, it was vital that effective partnership relationships were established between the HWBB and LSAB. Analysis of the roles of the HWBB and LSAB revealed connectivity between their core business. Both Boards needed to carefully consider the nature of the relationship, the governance arrangements that secure effective inter-action and the approaches that would enable robust, inter-active working between the two.

It was proposed that the LSAB and HWBB work together to agree interactions and distinctions between the JSNA process and safeguarding specific analysis undertaken by LSAB; agree an approach to understanding and evaluating the effectiveness of service outcomes, including capturing the service user's voice where services needed to be improved, re-shaped or developed; integrating work around the LSAB Business Plan and the Health and Well-Being Strategy, cross-Board communication and engagement in priority setting; arrangements for cross-Board scrutiny and challenge; a co-ordinated approach to performance management and evaluation of success in securing outcomes.

The Chairman of the Health and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee, who was in attendance at the meeting, queried whether there may be an opportunity to increase public awareness of the LSAB. It was noted that this co-ordinated approach would provide for shared communication of information.

RESOLVED

1.    That the Chair of the LSAB attend the HWBB on a 6 monthly basis to present the LSAB’s Annual Report & Business Plan and a mid-year safeguarding update.

2.    That the HWBB present the HWBB strategy at the LSAB.

3.    The LSAB will also provide the HWBB with LSAB expertise to support     the comprehensive analysis of safeguarding in the local area as a direct feed into the JSNA. The LSAB will also evaluate the impact of the Health and Well-Being Strategy on safeguarding and highlight any issues to be addressed in the subsequent Health and Well-Being strategy. The LSAB will also be a key stakeholder in the redrafting of the Health and Well-Being Strategy to ensure an appropriate inclusion of safeguarding issues for consideration by the H&W Board.

4.    That the HWBB and LSAB collaborate in sharing information and communications together and promote the Service Users Voice

5.    That the HWBB will be committed to incorporating Safeguarding data in the JNSA and  the sharing of the JNSA with the LSAB.