Agenda item - Brighton & Hove Safeguarding Adults Board Annual Report 2014/15

Report of the Statutory Director for Adult Social Care (copy attached).

33.1         The Chair of the Adult Safeguarding Board introduced the Board’s Annual report for 2014/15 which outlined the work of the Board and how partner agencies had worked together to improve the safety of adults at risk of harm and abuse.  He noted that the most pressing issue was the preparation for the Care Act and to ensure that safeguarding was about choice.  He noted that there would be further changes to the role of the Board and its remit which would be reflected in the next report.

33.2         The Chair welcomed the report and stated that it would be important to have a clear sense of how the Board’s work would be measured and reviewed in the future.

33.3         Councillor Mac Cafferty referred to the Prevent agenda and expressed some concern over how that work was being understood and the risk that it would jeopardise the work on safeguarding that had been undertaken.

33.4         The Chair of the Adults Safeguarding Board stated that the Board was aware of such concerns and that there was a need to ensure all agencies/organisations involved in safeguarding balanced that work with that in relation to tackling radicalisation.  He noted that there were representatives from both Boards on the Prevent Board which was looking to determine a protocol for all three Boards in term of actions and activity that related to safeguarding and the Prevent agenda.

33.5         RESOLVED:

(1)          That the safeguarding work carried out in 2014/15 and the priorities set out in the report for 2015/16 be noted; and

(2)          That the Annual report be approved for circulation.