Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Adult Social Care

Forward Plan Ref: 2022/109

Contact: Steven Turner, Strategic Partnerships Manager, 01865 328993

Report by Corporate Director for Adult Services (CA14).

The report summarises the work of the Oxfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board (OSAB) and its partners over the course of the year 2021-22. It is a requirement set out in the Care Act 2014 statutory guidance that the Local Authority receive a copy of the report and that they “will fully consider the contents of the report and how they can improve their contributions to both safeguarding throughout their own organisation and to the joint work of the Board” (Chapter 14, para 161).

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to note the contents of the report and its conclusions.

Recommendations agreed.

Cabinet was asked to note the annual report covering April 2021 to March 2022.

Dr Jayne Chidgey-Clark, Independent Chair of OSAB, summarised the report.  She stated that the priorities last year had been leadership in homelessness, a new multi-agency process to tackle complexity and better links between strategic partners.  She was pleased to report a narrowing of the gap between the life expectancy for people with a learning disability and the general population.

Dr Chidgey-Clark identified the following overarching themes requiring focus: recruitment, embedding learning, more preventive safeguarding work, training to meet the needs and the transition for young people to adult services.

Asked to identify what was in place this coming winter to tackle homelessness, Karen Fuller, Interim Corporate Director for Adult Services, responded that there was now a system leadership project including city and district councils.  There was a lot more in-reach to hospitals streamlining that pathway and more sharing of data.

Members noted that there was more innovation with each report.  The work of scrutiny had been taken on board.  The Making Safeguarding Personal approach was welcomed.  The importance of sharing action plans was emphasised.

The recommendations were moved by Councillor Brighouse, seconded by Councillor Hannaby and agreed.

The Chair asked Dr Chidgey-Clark to take the thanks of Cabinet back to the Board for all their work.

RESOLVED to:

note the contents of the report and its conclusions.