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Safeguarding Adults & Children

Board Presentation

Lorraine Wiener & Jemima Burnage 19th October 2011

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As a Trust we are committed to ensuring children and adults are protected and come to no harm from abuse. All employees have a responsibility to be aware of national and local policies, their individual responsibilities with regards to the protection and safeguarding of both adults and children, and must adhere to them at all times.

Trust statement of responsibility for Safeguarding

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Duties, Responsibilities & Requirements • Ensure implementation of Interagency Policies

• Provide a suitable infrastructure to support safeguarding activities

• Provide Mandatory Training

• Patient care-clinical standards-achieving high quality care

• Regulations- CQC Outcome 7

• Legislation- Children Act, s.11, Human Rights Act; Equality Act; MCA

• Cost effectiveness- harm, neglect and abuse costs lives & organisational reputation

• Safe Recruitment procedures

• Service development takes account of individuals, families, children and young peoples welfare

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Good Safeguarding includes:

Purpose and visionStrategyLeadership in the organisationGovernanceInformation and IntelligenceExpertise and skills

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Safeguarding Structure

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Safeguarding Governance

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Governance – is it embedded / does it work?

Challenge is to ensure robust operational management and staff

engagement at all levels

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Learning from IMRs & SC’s• Improve practice interface and transitions across children / adult

service• Meet children's / adults needs in a more timely manner• Better recognition of risks in families• Less closed doors to individuals • Improved supervision & management oversight of safeguarding cases• Routinely take account of children and young people• Improve staffs understanding of safeguarding• Stronger local leadership & accountability for safeguarding• Focus on prevention through ensuring the provision of quality,

respectful, dignified & person centered services

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Objectives for enhancing safeguarding over the next year

Improve training –

Promote use of NMC training toolkit Develop Joint safeguarding children / adult e-

learning Provide joint safeguarding children / adult

training to teams

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Objectives for enhancing safeguarding over the next year

Increase efficiencies & safeguarding lead capacity – Employ safeguarding practitioner to work

across children / adult safeguardingEmploy a support officer to improve

safeguarding intelligence and data setsStreamlining processes

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Early warning safeguarding systems

Routine performance audits Child Need Screening formSafeguarding alerts & referralsIncident & Complaints monitoringSafeguarding clinical supervision & managerial oversight of cases

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External Assurance

CQC inspections/Compliance/Quality Risk Profile

Commissioners – (including S11 visits)

HSCB & HSAB audits

Feedback from service users & carer’s

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HPFT Board Assurance

Strong & effective leadership at all levels

Organisational strategy

Working strategically and operationally with our partners

A workforce that understands their safeguarding responsibilities

Learning from incidents

The Board regularly review the progress of safeguarding within the organisation