Issue - meetings

A Peer Review team visited B&NES Council and Local Safeguarding Adult Board (LSAB) in March 2015. The LSAB and Council Officers seek to share the Peer Review teams’ findings with the Health and Wellbeing Committee and also the corresponding Action Plan which was approved by the LSAB in June 2015.

The Director of Adult Care and Health Commissioning introduced this report. She explained that a Peer Review team visited B&NES Council and the Local Safeguarding Adult Board (LSAB) in March 2015. She informed them that four key recommendations were made as a result of the visit.

·  Progress at pace the implementation of Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP)

·  The Quality Assurance, Audit and Performance Management Sub Group – in line with MSP, could develop more qualitative ways of auditing safeguarding

·  Revise the two day decision rule in relation to MSP

·  Consider how you reaffirm the citizen at the centre of everything you do

She stated that in response to the recommendations above and to other areas highlighted in the report for consideration, the Council has developed an action plan which was approved by the LSAB at its meeting in June 2015.

She said that the Council and LSAB found the Peer Review a useful mechanism to help with identifying future improvements to be made.

Councillor Paul May asked if there was risk regarding transitions by having both an LSAB and a LSCB.

The Director of Adult Care and Health Commissioning replied that one single person now chairs both boards alongside a single Head of Safeguarding & Quality Assurance whose work was highly rated by the review.

Councillor Paul May suggested that this work area be highlighted in the Action Plan.