Meeting: Lewisham Safeguarding Adults Board
Date: Tuesday 14th June 2016
Location: Lewisham Council, Room 304, Town Hall Chambers, Catford.
Attendees:
Name
Aileen Buckton
Philip Byron
Natalie Beccles
Geeta SubramaniamMooney
Becky Canning
Dee Carlin
Brian Scouler
Graham Hewett
Caz Brown
Initials
Organisation
LBL Community Services
LSAB
LSAB
LBL Crime Reduction &
Supporting People
National Probation Service
LBL/CCG
LBL Adult Services
NHS Lewisham CCG
Lewisham & Greenwich
NHS Trust
NHS Lewisham CCG
Metropolitan Police
London Fire Brigade
Lewisham Homes
Lewisham & Bromley
Healthwatch
SLAM
LBL Adult Services
LBL Community Safety
LSAB
Initials
Organisation
SLAM
Metropolitan Police
Lewisham
Community Rehabilitation
Company
Lewisham Children’s Social
Care
London Ambulance Service
Voluntary Action Lewisham
LBL Strategic Housing
Lewisham & Greenwich
NHS Trust
SLAM
NHS Lewisham CCG
Lewisham & Bromley
Healthwatch
NHS Lewisham CCG
NHS England
Public Health
L&Q Group
AB
PB
NB
GS
BC
DC
BS
GH
CB
Fiona Mitchell
Jo Oakley
Keeley Smith
Clare Long
Geraldine Richards
FMi
JO
KS
CL
GR
Louise Rabbitte
Joan Hutton
Martin Gormlie
Vicki Williams
LR
JH
MG
(Minutes)
Apologies:
Name
Cath Gormally
Jon Summers
CG
JS
Sharon Kirk
SK
Stephen Kitchman
Ski
Darren Farmer
Tony Nickson
Genevieve Macklin
Claire Champion
DF
TN
GM
CC
Denise O’Brien
Faruk Majid
Folake Segun
DO’B
FMa
FS
Claire Champion
Jane Clegg
Danny Ruta
Richard Southall
CC
JC
DR
RS
Item
1.
Welcome, Introductions and Apologies
AB welcomed everyone to the meeting and asked everyone
to introduce themselves. AB has been appointed as the
Interim Chair for the Board until a new Independent Chair is
appointed.
2.
Minutes of 15th March LSAB Meeting, matters arising,
amendments and open actions
Action
All actions on pages 1, 2 and 4 have been completed.
Action 38 Update - There is no specific place for IMHA’s to
be recorded on Electronic Patient Journey’s (EPJ’s) but this
will be addressed by the end of June and will be recorded
as part of a Section 42 enquiry. LR will ask CG to find out if
Care Act Advocates (IMCA’s) are also recorded.
LR &
CG
Action 39 Advocacy Review - Due in December 2016.
Open Actions - Action 7, Complete - FM has submitted all
of the Pressure Ulcer Initiative documents and copies of the
papers have been circulated to the Board today. BS
confirmed these procedures are aligned to the new
guidance.
Action 42 Board members have been asked for specific
information to be included in the Annual Report, this request
has a deadline of the end of June.
ALL
Matters Arising - Serious Incident and Safeguarding
Procedures Alignment –London ADASS guidance on the
proposed new Pan-London procedures (yet to be issued)
include changes to consideration of Serious Incident
Reviews (SIRs) and referral to the LSAB. SIRs notified to
the board should include all incidents where there may be a
safeguarding element, not just pressure ulcers. The Board
needs a clear process in place with Board partners about
which SIRs should be notified to the board. Consideration
should also be given to including DHRs & Police
Investigations (where notified).
Action 43 BS will look for updated London ADASS
guidance and send it to the LSAB for distribution to the
partnership. VW will distribute on behalf of BS.
Action 17, Completed with the new Pan London
Compliance.
Action 32, Completed - FM advised that this is addressed
under Action 7 as there is a correlation of the two.
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BS &
VW
3.
Counter Terrorism and security Act 2015 – The
‘PREVENT’ agenda
MG gave a briefing to the Board on the PREVENT Strategy
and the Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 to prevent
extremism (See presentation 1).
MG offered to assist Board members organisations with the
delivery of WRAP training.
MG is working on an advanced training program for
Safeguarding Professionals with Children’s Social Care. If
there is a need for this in Adult Social Care this would be
considered if requested. JH & BS to request assistance if
needed.
AB suggested resources could be pooled for this training.
Board members to contact MG should they need
assistance.
MG would like PREVENT embedded into all organisational
safeguarding policies.
JH believes that there will be more clarity on PREVENT
policies following the London Safeguarding Adults Board
inaugural meeting in July as this is part of the brief of the
London Board.
MG advised that for Lewisham, organisations are working
well together.
MG summarised the risks for Lewisham and explained the
CHANNEL program.
MG was asked if there was any data on CHANNEL referrals
as organisations are being asked by their own
board/governance structure for evidence that the PREVENT
programme is successful following considerable investment
into the programme.
MG advised that the system that was set up to record this
information has only provided unreliable data so far.
AB believes that as organisations’ Boards are asking if
PREVENT is successful this should be raised even if .
GSM explained the duties and responsibilities that
organisations have and that the Board should satisfy
themselves they are getting that right rather than is
PREVENT working.
AB accepted that organisations should focus on the
responsibilities they have under PREVENT but that should
not prevent organisations expressing concern around the
unreliability of the data.
Action 44 GSM is a member of the London Prevent
Network and is happy to raise this as a local issue but
assured the Board that most of their organisations are
represented at the London PREVENT Network, and that is
the opportunity to contribute.
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GSM
ALL
4.
5.
Action 45 AB suggested that agencies raise their concerns
through their own organisations representative as well.
Action 46 AB would like the Board to bring back information
about what Prevent training is being offered within the
partnership so it is clear.
Action 47 The Lewisham PREVENT group are to provide
quarterly updates to the LSAB.
Action 48 The LSAB will add PREVENT reports to the
Agenda as a standing item.
Action 49 PB will raise PREVENT at the LSAB Housing
Provider Forum (see item 9).
Board Governance
The LSAB compact was updated to be in line with the Care
Act 2014 and all organisations have signed up to it. It was
intended that this document would be revised in June but it
is proposed that the time this compact covers is extended
until the new Chair is appointed and can lead the work on
the revision. No objections were made.
Safeguarding Adults at Risk in London – A stocktake
The Board were asked to note the contents of the report
particularly Pages 50 & 51 Opportunities for Shared Action.
ALL
MG
VW
PB
The Board are asked if they would like to benchmark
themselves against other SAB’s and if they would what
resources are needed (see open action 19). DoL’s training
maybe also be something that the Board members
organisations would like to look at, CQC raised this as an
issue.
Information sharing between children’s and adult’s
safeguarding landscape has also been highlighted.
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DC believes that it would be useful for the Board to
understand and be aware of the themes in the report and to
think about how those lessons are reflected locally and what
Health & Social Care do to respond to the recommendations
in the report e.g. Learning from Domestic Homicide
Reviews. Learning from Domestic Homicide Reviews will be
an agenda item in September 2016.
Making Safeguarding Personal – London ADASS Pilot
NB gave a presentation to the Board (See presentation 2);
on raising awareness of prevention, identification and
reporting of safeguarding concerns.
The group discussed the outcomes people are seeking with
regards to safeguarding enquiries and how these are
recorded on their individual systems.
Action 50 PB will be writing to Board members to clarify
PB
how desired outcomes are recorded on their systems.
Action 51 AB suggested that NB include the Positive
NB
Ageing Council- Visiting Scheme as part of this work.
Care Act Advocacy 2015-16
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Please see Care Act Advocacy 2015-16 report.
BS asked what the total advocacy provision is across the
partnership and how this could be captured. Action 52 It
was agreed BS will approach commissioning for this
information.
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9
10
11
12
Workforce Development Plan
The national competence framework for safeguarding adults
provides a framework for consistency across health and
social care.
The Board are asked to approve the Workforce
Development and Audit Check Plan 2016-2017.
Plan approved - subject to any inter-collegiate changes
when the final version is published.
LSAB Housing Provider Forum
The LSAB Housing Provider Forum has been arranged for
Tuesday 21st June, all 9 major Housing Providers for the
Borough have accepted invitations.
Action 53 PB to take forward relevant issues from today’s
meeting.
Thanks to CL for providing the venue.
LSAB Budget 2015-2016
The LSAB 2015-2016 budget has an under spend due to
the time it took to recruit the Business Team.
AB confirmed the under spend can be carried over.
The Board were asked for any comments. No comments
were made.
Peer Challenge Review
As part of the Service Improvement approach within London
there is agreements in place for Peer Challenges across
London. The Peer Challenge Team are highly experienced:
led by Liz Bruce - Director of Adult Social Care from the TriBorough (Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea
and the City of Westminster) and Derek Oliver - Assistant
Director of Adult Social Care, Richmond Upon Thames.
Lewisham have a Peer Challenge due in September Action
54 JH requests that Board members make note of the dates
the Peer Challenge will take place and make themselves
available for interview if required; the dates are 20th, 21st &
22nd September 2016. Board members may also be asked
to provide evidence.
DoL’s Report
Please see DoL’s Report (Report 5) CB has carried out an
audit on DoL’s identification within the Trust.
Action 55 There are a number of lessons to be learnt from
CB’s audit, the results of which will be forwarded and
circulated to the Board once approved.
The Board complimented CB on this excellent piece of
work. Action 56 Once DoL’s audit has been through L&G
NHS Trust governance, the Chair will write the Chief
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BS
PB
ALL
CB &
VW
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16
Executive of Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
requesting support to make DoL’s training mandatory.
LSAB SAR Framework
The LSAB Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) Framework
was distributed for comments, no comments were received.
The Board were asked to approve the Framework - LSAB
SAR Framework approved.
Review of Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards - Alan
Wood
Action 57 This review & summary of key points for Adult
Safeguarding Boards will be circulated with the minutes of
the meeting.
Safeguarding Adult Reviews
Action 58 Verbal update given, brief case synopsis will be
sent to Board member organisations with the minutes.
AoB
Recruitment of Independent Chair for LSAB
The recruitment advertisement is currently out for the new
Independent Chair. There have been 3 applications, Board
members may be asked to assist in the recruitment process.
Safeguarding Adults Information Leaflet
CB asked if there was a general Safeguarding Adults
information leaflet.
Action 59 NB advised that a draft leaflet has been written,
NB will send the draft leaflet to the Board for approval.
Action 60 BS will send the new Adult Social Care
information leaflet to CB.
Action 61 LR will send SLAM’s information leaflet to CB.
AB
VW
PB &
VW
NB
BS
LR
Organisational Abuse finding by the CQC
The CQC have recently closed a privately run Mental Health
Hospital in the South East of London and have published
the report following the closure. A learning event has been
arranged by NHS England for 27/7/16. A formal apology
from the CQC has been received as they neglected to
mention the collaborative work that had been carried out by
organisations in Lewisham following the closure.
FM &
Action 62 AB would like the learning event summary
BS
reported to the Board in September.
VW
Action 63 This will be added to the September agenda.
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