Issue - meetings

           Cabinet is recommended to direct officers to change the current County-wide Adult Protection Committee into two, multi-agency Adult Safeguarding Boards for 1 April 2009.            

Consideration was given to a report outlining the process for creating Adult Safeguarding Boards in Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester, to operate from 1 April 2009, to ensure that effective strategies, policies and good practice are in place to protect vulnerable adults from abuse, harm and exploitation.

RESOLVED

For the reasons set out in the report: -

That approval be given to change the current County-wide Adult Protection Committee into two, multi-agency Adult Safeguarding Boards for 1 April 2009, in order to deliver the Action Plan outlined in the Feb 2008 Commission for Social Care and Inspection (CSCI) Safeguarding Inspection, and ultimately the improved protection of vulnerable adults.