Wigan Safeguarding Adult’s Board

The purpose of the board is:

• To facilitate and ensure that the Safeguarding Adults Partnership delivers its statutory duties and functions in relation to safeguarding adults as set out in Schedule 2 of the Care Act (2014).
• To develop a learning culture and framework across the safeguarding partnership and ensure learning from reviews, quality assurance and other activity is in place and effective.
• To contribute to and strategically own the production and delivery of the local safeguarding strategies and plans and ensure that partner agencies have clear and effective strategic and operational responses to safeguarding the people of Wigan and that they discharge their responsibilities effectively.
• To provide a transparent approach to both highlighting and providing solutions to safeguarding issues within the group with a focus on acting on opportunities to prevent and intervene earlier.
• To ensure that safeguarding plans and processes actively contribute to the Progress with Unity objectives and outcomes.
• To ensure that robust systems and processes are in place to hold partner agencies to account in relation to safeguarding policy and practice and to ensure that serious incidents and/or breaches in policy and practice are fully investigated and lessons learned.
• To ensure the provision of guidance, support, and workforce development to partner agencies to enable them to discharge their safeguarding responsibilities effectively.
• To produce an annual business plan in line with statutory requirements.
• To ensure compliance with all statutory requirements for monitoring and reporting safeguarding activity at strategic level (e.g. reporting of performance management information; compliance with inspections).
• To ensure that an appropriate and effective infrastructure is in place to support the Board in delivering the local adults safeguarding strategy and business plans.
• To contribute and commit to ensuring agreed resources to support safeguarding in Wigan including income generation and financial support to the partnership are in place.
• To ensure that there is timely and effective communication between the Partnership, its partner agencies in the statutory and independent sectors and the people of Wigan to support safeguarding across the borough.

Executive Group

The Executive Group of the Wigan Safeguarding Adults Board will be responsible for overseeing the business of the board and helping partners work together to translate strategy into action.

The Executive Group will undertake to oversee specific issues, matters of business and daily operations concerns on behalf of the board as follows:

• Track the partnership’s progress against the agreed business plan.
• Ensure that appropriate subgroups or task and finish groups are in place and are functioning appropriately to deliver the tasks outlined in the business plan.
• Oversee the activity of the subgroups of the board and report back on that activity to the board.
• Develop the Annual Report for approval by the board.
• Monitor and evaluate the implementation of recommendations from Case Reviews and wider learning and improvement activity and where appropriate Domestic Homicide Reviews.
• Consider, monitor, and recommend action for key safeguarding risk areas.
• Develop and implement a cross partnership risk management framework on behalf of the board.
• Support the development and implementation of a Quality Assurance and Audit Framework.
• Support the development of a performance framework for the board and monitor and evaluate the key performance and quality assurance data underpinning this.
• Support the board to implement any national guidance and recommendations.
• Support the board in undertaking an annual (or bi-annual) self-assessment of its effectiveness.

Learning and Quality Assurance

The purpose of the group is:

• SAR requests will be discussed at the subgroup and the group will agree the appropriate case learning framework for management of the request (SAR recommendation, Brief Learning Review, Single Agency Report). 

• To ensure that Learning from the above frameworks are disseminated and implemented. 

• To provide data and intelligence products that provide insight and quality assurance of local safeguarding processes that come under the Wigan Safeguarding Adults Board (WSAB) jurisdiction. 

• Utilise the Learning Outcomes Framework to develop and implement an annual multi-agency learning and improvement plan. 

• To ensure that safeguarding processes regarding the identification and management of critical cases identified by WSAB partner agencies are effective and appropriate. 

• To discuss any identified workforce development needs and implement relevant training plans to address gaps in provision. 

Self-Neglect, Risk and Complexity

The purpose of the group is:

• To ensure that Learning from the Learning Outcome Framework are disseminated and implemented, and appropriate actions progressed 

• To ensure that safeguarding processes regarding the identification and management of critical cases identified by WSAB partner agencies are effective and appropriate. 

• To discuss any identified workforce development needs and implement relevant training plans to address gaps in provision. 

• To ensure self-neglect pathways remain up to date, accessible, promoted and utilised across the partnership 

• To oversee complexity and risk and utilise partnerships to develop clear pathways whilst taking opportunities around early intervention to prevent deterioration and help residents remain independent linked to the right support. 

• To look at ways to champion Trauma Informed practice across agencies especially in complex cases when different approaches are needed. 

Organisational Safeguarding

The purpose of the group is:

• To ensure that Learning from the Learning Outcome Framework are disseminated and implemented, and appropriate actions progressed 
• To ensure that safeguarding processes regarding the identification and management of critical cases identified by WSAB partner agencies are effective and appropriate. 
• To discuss any identified workforce development needs and implement relevant training plans to address gaps in provision. 
• Develop a set of work programme metrics that establish a baseline and ongoing improvement framework that demonstrate impact across all sectors regarding organisational safeguarding  
• To establish working arrangements with PMMD Quality Surveillance regarding escalation, intelligence, flow and tasking and co-ordination. 
• Oversee further embedding of the WSAB Safeguarding Tier System 
• Look at new ways to ensure we gather and listen to the voice of those with lived experience utilising services. 

MCA and DoLs

The purpose of the group is:

The MCA and DoLs Delivery Subgroup will develop, implement and review policies, procedures, and protocols in response to MCA / DoLS legislation, national guidance, and case law. 

The Subgroup will identify opportunities for practice development that supports improved outcomes for people through consideration of national and local intelligence, best practice and guidance related to

• MCA and DoLS 

It will provide a multi-agency forum to establish local policy and processes and establish a multi-agency performance and quality outcomes framework to evidence that the work of the group is impacting on positive outcomes for people.  This work will include quality assurance audits to ensure practice is robust and effective, both multi-agency and consideration of single agency findings to inform future work. 

 It will produce a multi-agency action plan to ensure all work is co-ordinated and where possible co-produced.