East Riding Safeguarding Adults Board
Mini-conferences 2013
establishing good practice locally
Goole 10 September
Bridlington 16 September
Cottingham 17 September
Mike Briggs
Board chair
Multi Agency
Safeguarding Strategy
To Protect Adults At
Risk Of Harm
2013-2016
The Vision
The East Riding of Yorkshire is a place where adults
at risk of harm are able to live an independent life
free from harm where:
abuse is not tolerated
everyone works together to prevent abuse
services respond effectively when abuse is
suspected or happens
PRIORITY AREAS
1. Prevention
2. Protection
3. Leadership, engagement &
partnership
4. Accountability and quality
assurance
The national picture
What Works
• A focus on people and the outcomes they want
valuing the difference that is made; process is important but not an
end in itself.
• Collaborative leadership
supporting, integrating and holding partners to account
• Effective interfaces
with Health and Wellbeing Boards, Community Safety Partnerships,
Children’s Safeguarding Boards, etc.
• Responsive specialist services
in place and have a portfolio of responses to support people with
difficult decision making.
• Concerns are addressed proportionately
so that systems are not swamped and we do not miss the really
serious concerns.
• Fully integrated systems
commissioning, contracts management, care management reviews
and safeguarding intelligence.
Achieving Good Outcomes for Service Users
Focusing on outcomes
personalises safeguarding
People outcomes right through the
process
Inclusive approach engages carers
& families
Know how you are making a
difference to people’s lives
Responding to Reported Abuse
Defining ‘abuse’
Proportional thresholds on alerts and referrals
Agreed multi-agency pathway for dealing with suspected abuse
Systematic monitoring of response times and outcomes
User-friendly procedures emphasise user outcomes not processes
Out-of-area placements
Engaging service users and their families
Working with users and carers in partnership to improve services.
Third sector’s role in providing advocacy, signposting and prevention.
Challenge to Safeguarding Boards to develop user representation
Safeguarding Personalisation Principles
Options for people to choose accredited services
(including an offer of CRB and quality checks).
Care planning is person-centred and regularly reviewed.
People have access to information and advice about
protecting themselves, the services they use and
what to do if they are being harmed or abused.
Advocacy services are available for people who are
unable to challenge or change circumstances that
they experience as abusive.
NHS and local authority commissioners build in the
assurance that a quality framework is in place and is
regularly tested.
Whistle blowing help lines are available to staff of all
care providing organisations.
Legal Powers
"What good is it making someone safer
if it merely makes them miserable?"
Lord Justice Munby
People fully involved & in control of processes
Least restrictive option
Legal literacy of social workers and managers
Easy access to legal advice
Usage of Mental Capacity Act monitored
Joined-up risk management
A proportionate tolerance of acceptable risks.
A cross-agency approach recognizes inherent risks and has a system for
agreeing how and when decisions are taken on individual cases.
People engaged in their own risk management by the most relevant means eg:
hate crime arrangements; anti-social behaviour panels; Multi Agency Public
Protection Arrangements (MAPPA).
Resources
“Safeguarding Adults: Advice and Guidance to Directors of Adult Social Services” Local Government Association and
Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, March 2013.
http://www.adass.org.uk/ or https://knowledgehub.local.gov.uk/
"User involvement in adult safeguarding", Janet Wallcraft and Angela Sweeney, Social Care Institute for Excellence report 47,
September 2011. http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/reports/report47/files/report47.pdf
"Practical approaches to safeguarding and Personalisation", Department of Health, November 2010.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/@ps/documents/digitalasset/dh_121671.pdf
" Safeguarding adults at risk of harm: A legal guide for practitioners", Social Care Institute for Excellence, December 2011
http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/reports/report50.pdf
"Serious Case Reviews in Adult Safeguarding in England: An Analysis of a Sample of Reports" , Jill Manthorpe and Stephen
Matineau, in British Journal of Social Work Advance Access, September 2010.
http://www.sequeli.com/docs/scr%20bjsw%20sept%202010.pdf
"Early Messages from Peer Reviews" , Richard Humphries, The Journal of Adult Protection Issue 2 Vol.13 2011.
http://ww4.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1466-8203&volume=13&issue=2&articleid=1927697&show=abstract
“Safeguarding Adults: Learning from Peer Challenges”, Local Government Association, June 2013.
http://www.local.gov.uk/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=3ee91609-f770-4873-9f27-113c335b808b&groupId=10171
“Making Safeguarding Personal”, Local Government Association, March 2013.
http://www.local.gov.uk/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=35370244-bee8-4791-8c39-44f59116a1dd&groupId=10171
“Adult Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse: a Guide to Support Practitioners and Managers” , Local Government Association &
ADASS, March 2013.
http://www.local.gov.uk/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=27325734-7521-44cf-a1e7-431a3e1f2ea9&groupId=10171
www.ersab.org.uk