City and Hackney Safeguarding Adults Board

If you are concerned about someone or if you are experiencing harm

for people in Hackney – call 020 8356 5782 or email adultprotection@hackney.gov.uk
for people in the City – call 020 7332 1224 or email adultsduty@cityoflondon.gov.uk

In this section

People should be able to live a life free from harm in communities that are intolerant of abuse, work together to prevent abuse and know what to do when it happens.

What is the board?

The board is a multi-agency partnership which has statutory functions under the Care Act 2014. The main objective of the board is to assure itself that local safeguarding arrangements and partners act to safeguard adults at risk of abuse in the local area.

Dr Adi Cooper (OBE) is the Independent Chair of the board.

What does the board do?

The board has 3 main duties under the Care Act:

It must publish a strategic plan for each financial year that sets how it will meet its main objective and what the members will do to achieve this. The plan must be developed with local community involvement, and the SAB must consult the local Healthwatch organisation. The plan should be evidence-based and make use of all available evidence and intelligence from partners to form and develop its plan.
It must publish an annual report detailing what the SAB has done during the year to achieve its main objective and implement its strategic plan, and what each member has done to implement the strategy as well as detailing the findings of any safeguarding adults reviews and subsequent action.
It must conduct any safeguarding adults review in accordance with Section 44 of the Act.

In order to meet these objectives the board acts as follows:

agrees and reviews multi-agency City and Hackney safeguarding adults policy and procedure for protecting vulnerable adults, taking into account statutory requirements, national guidance and London regional policies
maintains an annual business plan, setting priorities for preventing and addressing abuse of vulnerable adults, and produces and disseminates an annual report
monitors incidents of abuse and neglect, reviews trends and acts where appropriate to improve services and support to vulnerable adults
regularly evaluates how agencies and providers safeguard vulnerable adults, by introducing rigorous quality assurance and scrutiny systems across partner agencies
agrees a serious case review protocol and reviews and learns from situations where safeguarding arrangements may have been inadequate
maintains a programme of training and development on safeguarding vulnerable adults for staff across agencies in the statutory, independent provider and voluntary sectors
develops and promotes arrangements for adults at risk and carers to be well-informed about safeguarding arrangements and provide opportunities for service users and carers to influence and feedback on their effectiveness
promotes public awareness of safeguarding as an issue for all citizens and engage the wider community in helping to prevent abuse and neglect and to report where they have concerns

Who is an adult at risk?

The Care Act 2014 defines an adult at risk as a person who has care and support needs and is, or is at risk of, being abused or neglected and unable to protect themselves against the abuse or neglect or risk of it because of those needs.

To learn more about adults at risk see safeguarding adults.

Annual strategic plan

This is the CHSAB’s annual strategic plan for 2017-18 setting out the board’s key priorities for the year. The board will highlight progress from the year in its next annual report.

Annual reports

Page updated on: 9 July 2019