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Minutes of the RBSAB Meeting held on Monday 28th April 2014 from 1.00 – 4.00 pm

Training & Conference Suite, Floor 1, Number 1 Riverside Chair:Name Designation OrganisationAndy Searle Interim Independent Chair of RBSAB

Present:Name Designation Organisation

Board MembersGraham Atherton DCI (Deputy for Chis Sykes) GM PoliceSheila Downey Director RMBC, Adult CareCllr Jean Hornby Elected Member (portfolio holder for Adult Care) RMBC

Tricia Hornby Chief Executive Rochdale & District Mind (Advocacy Service)

Dr Paul Laker Vice Chair NHS HMR CCGJon Longden Head of Access & Tenancy Support RBHWendy Meston Director Public Health NHS HMR

Andrea Morris Lead for Integrated Governance, Community Service

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust Community and Mental Health Service

Tony Philbin Business Manager (Deputy for Sandra Bruce) RBSCB

Cllr Billy Sheerin Elected Member, (Deputy Adult Care portfolio holder)

RMBC

Jeanette Staley Safer Communities Manager RMBCAdvisors

Ann Butterfield Senior Solicitor RMBC, Legal ServicesKaren McCormick Named Safeguarding Adults Nurse NHS HMR CCGJane Timson Head of Safeguarding and Practice Assurance RMBC, Adult Care

RBSAB Business UnitBilal Choudhury Administrator (minute taker) RBSAB Business UnitLesley Foylan Quality Assurance Officer RBSAB Business UnitCarl Travis Development Worker RBSAB Business Unit

Apologies: Name Designation OrganisationPauline Anderson Head of Nursing For The Division of Medicine Pennine Acute Health Trust

Martin Barber Community Safety Manager (Bury, Oldham, Rochdale) GM Fire & Rescue Service

Sandra Bruce Service Manager, Children’s Safeguarding Unit RMBC, Child CareJacqueline Bestley Interim Manager Rochdale Healthwatch

Anne Carswell Interim Assistant Director - Older People & Physical Disabilities Adult Care, RMBC

Nigel Elliot Acting Assistant Chief Executive GMPT

Vera Hirst Representative Older People’s User/Carer Forum and Age UK

Cllr Donna Martin Elected Member (Children Services portfolio holder) RMBC

Jean Turton Manager, Archmoor Care Limited Rochdale Care Home Association

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AGENDAITEM NOTES ACTION

1 Apologies

Apologies were noted.

2 Introductions

Introductions were made around the table.

3 Minutes of the last meeting held on 27 th January 2014

The Minutes were noted and accepted as a true record.

4 Matters Arising (if not on Agenda)

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Chair of the Board:At the previous meeting it was agreed the position of the chair of the board will be advertised. This has not yet taken place but will be advertised shortly. Jane Timson will provide an update at the next meeting.

CIPOLD Report HMR/CCG/Adult CareKaren McCormick informed the group that involvement of GPs with individuals with learning disabilities will be discussed at the next Learning Disability Sub Group and will be a standing item at that meeting. This will also be going into their work plan. Karen McCormick to provide an update at the next meeting.

RBSAB Safeguarding Adults at Risk Policy and Procedures Review:The Safeguarding Adults at Risk Policy and Procedures Review is still ongoing and is expected to be completed by the next board meeting in July 2014 for approval.

Safeguarding Adult Activity Information/0845 numbers: Sheila Downey informed the meeting that Rochdale Council is changing all 0845 numbers to 0300 (local rate number) for council services. The Adult Care telephone numbers have not yet changed but this will take place soon. Sheila Downey to update on progress at next meeting.

Workforce Development Group Established:The Workforce Development Group has now been established and chaired by Fiona Nuttall (Transformation Lead (Organisational Development), RMBC). The first meeting took place on 26th February that included representatives from:

RMBC Adult Care RMBC Corporate Services

Jane Timson

Karen McCormick

Jane Timson

Sheila Downey

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HMR NHS CCG Rochdale Boroughwide Housing GM Police GM Fire & Rescue Age UK

The next meeting will be taking place on Wednesday 7th May 2014.

RBSAB Funding 2014/15:Andy Searle has been yet been able to approach the NHS Commissioning Board to discuss potential funding and ways of engaging with the Board. Andy Searle/Jane Timson to make plans to meet up with the NHS Commissioning Board.

Hate Crime:Work is still ongoing to publicise third party hate crime reporting centres which have been established for victims or members of the public to report any crimes relating to race, disability or sexual orientation without going to the Police. This will be put onto the Hate Crime Action Plan and an update will be provided at next Board meeting.

Board Membership:Bilal Choudhury has sent out the membership agreement forms to Board members but there are a handful of members who have not returned their agreement form. It was agreed any new member who joins the board will need to complete the membership agreement.

Cyber Bullying:Jane Timson has spoken with Stephanie Kendrick-Jones (RMBC, Principal Community Cohesion Officer) about cyber bullying through social networking for adults at risk and has agreed to add this onto the Hate Crime Action Plan.

Photographic Evidence in Investigation:The Safeguarding Adults Review Group discussed using photographic evidence on 9th April 2014 and agreed a protocol is required. Jane Timson to provide an update at next meeting on progress.

GM Consortium:Andy Searle informed the group that discussions are taking place to consider setting up a GM Consortium to assist with moving towards GM policies and procedures, which will be steered by the Greater Manchester Safeguarding Leads Network. A suggestion has been made of the need to recruit a co-ordinator to oversee the work of setting up pan GM Policies and Procedures. Tony Philbin confirmed that Children’s Board have a GM consortium and a co-ordinator for safeguarding children in the North West and this has proven to be very effective. Andy Searle to update on progress at the next meeting.

Draft Threshold Guidance:Jane Timson received the policies for Safeguarding rather than Threshold Guidance from Pennine Acute and Pennine Care Hospitals. It has been decided that the Threshold Guidance will be used by

Andy Searle/Jane

Timson

Jeanette Staley

Jane Timson

Andy Searle

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Safeguarding Responsible Managers to decide whether an alert received should progress to a safeguarding investigation or to ascertain if there are other more proportionate ways of dealing with the concern. Andy Searle requested that Pennine Care Community Mental Health Trust and Pennine Acute to send their Threshold Guidance to Jane Timson.

Communication and Publicity Group:Sarah Williams (RMBC) will be writing up the information sharing protocol for the Board but there is information outstanding from partners to populate the sharing protocol. Carl Travis to re-send the email requesting partners to complete the information sharing protocol form.

Andrea Morris / Pauline

Anderson

Carl Travis

5 Board Membership – Link 4 Life

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Andy Searle asked the group whether there should be any other members being part of the board. Jane Timson asked whether a representative from Link 4 Life should be part of the Board. Councillor Billy Sheerin stated he is a board member for Link 4 life and would ask their board whether he could be the representative for Link 4 life at the RBSAB’s Board.

Andrea Morris confirmed she will be the lead representative for Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust Community & Mental Health Service.

Jane Timson informed the meeting that Healthwatch Rochdale will be recruiting a manager in the near future after Saeed Anwar resigned. Currently Healthwatch is being run by an interim manager, Jaqueline Bestley, who will be RBSAB’s interim Board member until the new manager is appointed.

Graham Atherton has attended the board meeting as deputy on behalf of Chief Superintendent Chris Sykes who will be the lead representative for GM Police.

Andy Searle confirmed that Jane Timson, Karen McCormick and Ann Butterfield will now be RBSAB’s Board advisors.

Attendance of Board Members:Andy Searle discussed the attendance report of Board members at meetings to identify which organisations are attending on a regular basis. This information will be included in the annual report.

Andy Searle thanked members who had achieved 100% attendance and contributed to all Board meetings in 2013-14, they include the following:

GM Police RBSCB Sheila Downey (Director of Adult Care) Pennine Care Community and Mental Health Service Cllr Jean Hornby (Elected Member for Adults) Rochdale & District Mind

Councillor Billy

Sheerin

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NHS HMR CCG Rochdale Boroughwide Housing RMBC Adult Care

6 Changes to Probation Service

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Jane Timson reported:

From 1st June 2014 the Greater Manchester Probation Trust (GMPT) will be split into two organisations, they are National Probation Service (NPS) and Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) which will be independent.

Both organisations have a statutory duty to attend the RBSCB board meetings but it will be a local decision for both organisations to attend RBSAB, however Nigel Elliot is keen to engage with the Adults Board.

Nigel Elliot’s report was discussed. It is unclear how NPS and CRC will provide representation to the adult’s board. This could be either by sending a representative from each organisation or one person representing both organisations once the restructure changes take place. Jane Timson to inform on progress at the next meeting.

GMPT will continue to receive the minutes of the board meeting.

Jeanette Staley stated the 2 new organisations has agreed to be a member on the Rochdale Safer Community Board and is aware this is a critical period for GMPT during this time of transition.

Jane Timson

7 PREVENT – Tackling extremism

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Jeanette Staley reported:

PREVENT Presentation

The PREVENT strategy aims to stop violent extremism.

Rochdale has a large Asian population and the far Right has raised tensions in the area.

The far Right has so far organised 15 demonstrations in Rochdale in the past 18 months.

Rochdale Safer Community Board have 3 objectives, they are:

Individual: To provide support to, and divert, individuals before any crime is committed.

Ideologies: Responding to the ideological challenge of terrorism and tackling extremists who promote it. The Safer Community

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team has a number of officers to share information with partner agencies to develop action plans.

Institutions: To work with other sectors such as education, criminal justice, faith groups and charities to identify where radicalisation is identified. Training front line staff, in establishments such as schools and colleges, to identify individuals who could be vulnerable and exploited.

Following death of Lee Rigby in Woolwich, an Extremism Task Force was commissioned by the Prime Minister. It has since provided a number of recommendations:

a. To ban groups which aim to undermine democracy.

b. Make PREVENT a legal requirement in areas of the country where is extremism is a concern. Rochdale now has a PREVENT steering group.

c. Make delivery of the ‘CHANNEL’ programme a legal requirement, which supports individuals at risk of being radicalised.

Rochdale is the only Local Authority in Greater Manchester to have a PREVENT steering group which is non-funded by government. Andy Searle asked why Rochdale steering group is not funded and Jeanette Staley informed the meeting that this was due to funding cuts.

Jeanette Staley asked the group to recognise PREVENT and to endorse the process.

Sheila Downey asked how the Community Safety Team will be able to measure the success of the work undertaken. Jeanette Staley informed the group that the Community Safety Team has a tension monitoring form that collates all the data from local and national coverage and is then able to analyse the risk. The risk will then be categorised from Low to High and the role of the Safer Community Team is to ensure the risk category does not increase. Jeanette Staley will circulate the tension monitoring form to board members on a confidential basis.

There are also community leaders who are contacting authorities for any concern and this is helping to reduce tensions.

Andy Searle stated that health partners are being offered training in PREVENT as part of national requirements and asked how this was progressing, however Jeanette Staley was unaware of this. Andrea Morris to provide an update at the next meeting on how many staff from Pennine Care have been offered training in PREVENT.

Jon Longden asked if Housing Associations should be part of

Jeanette Staley

Andrea Morris

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7.10 PREVENT. Jeanette Staley stated that information will only be shared with organisations where there is a concern at specific locations. For example, after the murder of Lee Rigby, the Community Safety team had worked with housing providers and Mosque leaders to reduce tensions in the Asian community. In Langley in Middleton (where Lee Rigby originated), the Community Safety Team worked with Housing providers to provide reassurance as tensions were running high.

8 Partnership Enforcement Team – Links to MASS/Sunrise

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Jeanette Staley reported:

A Partnership Enforcement Team has been established to tackle issues relating to serious crime by Rochdale Council using its civil powers. The partners are:

a. Policeb. Firec. Community Safetyd. Public Protectione. Housingf. Legal Servicesg. Planning& Building Controlh. Environmenti. Revenue and Benefitsj. DWP

Successes include ‘Operation Rakanda’ which involved the arrest of 11 drug dealers in Rochdale. The ‘Community Drugs and Alcohol Outreach Teams’ (CDAOT) worked with addicts to provide support and treatment.

The Partnership Enforcement Team has used civil enforcement powers to close down a take away due to concerns raised by the public’.

There was concern relating to a property that provided multiple occupancies. Private Sector Housing used their civil powers to enforce the home owners to follow legislation relating to multiple occupancies.

Andrea Morris asked how partner organisations were engaged in multi-agency operations. Jeanette Staley said that prior to the arrest of the 11 drug dealers, CDAOT and Youth Service were made aware on a confidential basis and staff was put into position to provide support when required.

Andy Searle asked what happens to assets that are seized from criminals. Jeanette Staley said that income from this source has not previously been available. Andy Searle asked whether RBSAB can make a bid to the Police for funding when criminal Graham

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assets are seized and disposed of. Graham Atherton to look into and report back at next meeting.

Atherton

9 World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

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Carl Travis informed the meeting that World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is taking place on 15th June 2014 and is co-ordinated nationally by ‘Action on Elder Abuse’.

There is a steering group made up of representatives from Adult Care, Age UK, Alzheimer’s Society, Rochdale & District Mind and Carers Resource Centre to hold our own event in Rochdale on Tuesday 17 th

June. It is not decided what form of event is being planned but potentiality using the Wheatsheaf Shopping centre as a venue. The steering group is helping to drive this event planning forward.

The police are supporting this event through PCSOs.

Andy Searle would like to see all partner organisations to encourage staff to wear purple to help raise the profile of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on Tuesday 17th June.

The activities planned on 17th June 2014 will be organised in behalf of RBSAB.

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10 Making Safeguarding Personal

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Making Safeguarding Personal is pilot programme organised by the Local Government Association to move away from a process driven safeguarding investigation into outcome focused safeguarding.

Rochdale Adult Care volunteered to be part of the 3 month pilot alongside 52 other local authorities. The pilot in Rochdale focussed on consulting people who are the subject of Safeguarding alerts about their desired outcomes at the start of the process, and then asked at the end of the process whether their desired outcomes have been met.

There were 74 forms completed during the 3 month pilot to capture the desired outcomes from the safeguarding alert.

The form is currently being tweaked for final changes and once approved it will be embedded onto ‘ALLIS’, which is the electronic database for Rochdale Adult Care.

Making Safeguarding Personal fits in with RBSAB’s Strategy and Action Plan 2013-16 under Outcome 3 ‘Adults at Risk are protected from harm in a way that respects their individual circumstances’.

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Wendy Meston asked how this is different from the children’s board when collecting information on desired outcome. Tony Philbin replied for children this is statutory and for Adults it is the individual’s own choice.

Andy Searle asked who will be reviewing the findings from the pilot programme and Jane Timson confirmed it would be the SAR group.

Andy Searle said it is important we learn from the safeguarding of children and the Voice of the Child as if you substituted the word child with adult at risk it would still be valid.

11 Annual Report for 2013/14

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Jane Timson would like the Annual Report to be ratified by the Board in July 2014 and published in September 2014 so it can be presented to the Cabinet and the Health & Wellbeing Board in the last quarter of the year.

Jane Timson asked all partner agencies who have not yet done so, to submit their key achievements for the annual report to Carl Travis by the end of April 2014. Carl Travis to send out a reminder to all agencies to submit their report.

Sheila Downey asked if there are any guidelines on how the information for the annual report needs to be presented, and Carl Travis confirmed a pro-forma had been circulated that amounts to a total of one A4 side.

Andy Searle asked what the timescale was for the RBSCB to have their annual report published and Tony Philbin said it was 1st September. Andy Searle would like 1st September to be the date for future publication deadline.

Carl Travis

12 RBSAB Strategy and Business Plan 2014/15

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Jane Timson Reported:

Business Plan 2014/15

Jane Timson did a presentation on the RBSAB Strategic Action plan 2014/15 covering all 6 outcomes. The following points need to be amended onto the action plan:

On outcome 1, ‘Commissioners monitor quality of care provisions’ provider services needs to be added onto the delivery partners.

On outcome 3, Adults needs to be replaced by Adults at risk.

On outcome 5, the action ‘annual report to be published early

Carl Travis

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autumn and presented to Audit and safeguarding Committee’. The Audit and Safeguarding Committee needs to be replaced by the ‘Overview & Scrutiny Committee’.

Hate crime needs to be added onto the action plan.

Andy Searle said that, in relation to outcome 5, ‘agree and undertake an audit to measure the board members’ effectiveness’, there is a risk if organisations do not inform the board when organisations are changing arrangements especially that may impact on safeguarding or if the person representing their organisation is not the most appropriate representative.

Risk Register

The risk register has been developed based on the Strategic Action Plan 2014/15. All to forward any comments to Jane Timson.

Carl Travis

Carl Travis

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13 Transitional Pathways

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Jane Timson informed the meeting that work is ongoing between Adult Care and Child Care to map services that are available for vulnerable children in transition to adulthood. A questionnaire will be sent to all provider agencies to identify the services that are available and what the arrangements are when a service user becomes 18.

14 Safeguarding Adults Reviews & Learning the Lessons Reviews

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Protocol Andy Searle informed the meeting that the Protocol is not yet ready and will be sent out at a later date. The Protocol will describe the different options available when undertaking a Safeguarding Adults Review.

Sheila Downey would like the Protocol to be discussed at the next meeting.

SCR/SAR

3 referrals for SCR/SARs have been received, and 3 screening panel meetings have been held since January 2014.

1 case did not meet the criteria.

It was agreed at the screening panel meeting for JM that it met the criteria for a SAR. JM was under MAPPA and living in Tameside even though he was receiving care services from Rochdale at the time of his death.

JM was a vulnerable adult as he had a tendency to disclose his past criminal activities. It is believed that he had a brain injury as a result of an assault and that this was effecting his ability not ti

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disclose his personal information to others.

Tameside Safeguarding Adults Board has agreed to contribute to half of the cost of the review and that RBSAB should lead the SAR.

Two applications to chair the SAR have been received. One applicant has stated she has not yet chaired an SAR.

Andy Searle said it had been calculated that it would take a maximum of 15 days to complete the work and would cost approximately £6000. Andy would like the review to be completed quickly so lessons learnt could be implemented quickly.

Sheila Downey said the Board should be setting up a framework that specifies our requirements but does not control the content. The following points are expected from the author:

1. To understand the issues quickly2. To ask the right questions quickly3. To produce a report appropriately4. The report not to be too detailed5. To produce the report quickly

Andy Searle said that there is a shortage of Authors and as they

are freelancers and independent, they can dictate the price they want.

Learning the Lessons Review for TS

There will be a Learning the Lessons Review for TS.

We are currently in the process of identifying an independent author. This can be a board member or someone from their organisation but cannot be an organisation that had direct involvement with the case. Andy Searle asked the group if they would like to nominate themselves or can nominate someone from their organisation but no other nominee was identified.

Jane Timson has spoken to an individual who will be willing to do this review using the hybrid model. It will take roughly 5 days and will cost approximately £3000. This author has written a number of Serious Case Reviews for the Children’s Board.

Funding and Contribution from Partner Organisations for Review

Andy Searle asked the group whether partner agencies will be able to contribute funding for the reviews for JM and TS. No funding for the reviews was identified. It was agreed Andy Searle will write to the chief officers for all partner organisations and see if they would financially contribute to the reviews.

Sheila Downey asked if a pricing structure can be created, this

Andy Searle

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this will help focus in identifying the best value for money, experience and quality the authors possesses for future reviews. It was agreed this would be explored further.

Financial contributions to RBSAB currently comes from Adult Care, NHS HMR CCG & Rochdale Boroughwide Housing.

15 Quality Assurance and Performance Group

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Lesley Foylan reported:

Escalation Procedure

The document was taken from the Children’s Board and amended to satisfy adults. All agreed to adopt the document.

QAP Report

QAP met twice since the last board meeting in January 2014. At the first meeting, the attendance was good but the second was not quorate but the meeting went ahead .

Letters were sent out to all agencies by the chair asking partners to ensure that they send a representative to the QAP meeting.

Alistair Mallen who was chair of the group has resigned, due to additional work pressures.

The Quality Assurance Framework has been finalised and performance indicators are still being developed.

Single Agency Self-Assessment Audit

Five applications have been received for the Single Agency Self-Assessment Audit after sending out a reminder email to all agencies. The agencies that have yet to submit their self-assessment audits are:

1. GM Fire & Rescue2. GM Probation Trust 3. Healthwatch Rochdale4. HM Prison5. Public Health

ChairAndy Searle highlighted that the QAP Group does not have a chair at present and asked if anyone is interested in volunteering. Alternatively Board members can nominate an individual from their organisation.

Lesley Foylan

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The end of year report was shared with everyone present

The group met on 26th February and the next meeting is on 7th May.

Terms of Reference for this group have been drawn up.

There is recognition towards a shift to e- learning as this will help to reduce costs.

17 Communication and Publicity Group

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Tricia Hornby / Jane Timson reported:

Communication Strategy RatificationThe communication strategy which includes an action plan has been completed at the last meeting on 31st March 2014.

Jane Timson informed the meeting that the communication strategy has a number of tools to measure performance. These include:

a. Campaign Codes to catch which communication channel works.

b. Monitoring the number of safeguarding concerns and alerts.

c. Evaluation forms for feedback from events such as the Partnership Forum and training sessions

d. Feedback from newsletters.e. Media & publicity reach.f. Quality Assurance survey to measure the awareness of

public and professionals around safeguarding.

Andy Searle/Sheila Downey complimented the Communication & Publicity Group for their excellent work.

Logo

There will be no picture associated with the logo, unlike Children’s Board

All paperwork from now on will have the new logo attached.

The Logo was formally adopted by the Board

Q4 and End of Year Report

The Communication and Publicity Group has had regular attendance from RMBC, User Group Forum & NHS HMR CCG.

The work plan for the group is still ongoing.

Currently looking at the most effective way of eliciting feedback from events, and to determine whether the participants’

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expectations have been met.

A Partnership Forum took place on February 2014 and 57 people attended, the next one is on 27th May 2014.

The first newsletter by RBSAB has been published.

18 Safeguarding Adult Review Group

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Mr W Report and Action Plan

Mr W was sent to from home to hospital in 2012 in a poor state of health and remained there around 7 - 8 weeks. A safeguarding alert was raised by the hospital.

He was then sent to a nursing home and after 5 days he returned back to hospital for the final hours of his life.

The Learning the Lessons panel was made up from representatives from Pennine Care, Pennine Acute, NHS HNR CCG, GM Police, the care home (where he was admitted from) & RMBC Adult Care.

All partners submitted their chronologies and IMRs and the final Report was produced.

The conclusion indicates that: There was a lack of recognition of the extremely difficult task

facing the family in trying to care for Mr W. The family’s refusal to accept care and support was taken at face

value. Workers did not appear to question or challenge the decision of

the family to manage Mr W’s situation. There was an apparent lack of carers’ assessments evidenced in

the chronology. Agencies worked in isolation - no agency made contact with

another or were aware of each other’s assessments that had taken place.

Lack of contact between hospital staff and the Transfer of Care team meant serious concerns about the condition of Mr W on his hospital admission in August 2010 were not communicated effectively.

A common theme in the Individual Management Reviews was the lack of recording in relation to whether workers actually saw Mr W on their assessments or whether workers attempted to engage with him.

Mr W was spending most of his time at home in bed.

The recommendations were: There needs to be one person co-ordinating and taking overall

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Mental Capacity assessments should be recorded on all agency records and consideration given to the best interests of the patient/ service user.

Consideration should be given to the creation of a multi-agency risk identification tool that would better demonstrate the level of need.

More information should be readily available to carers of those with dementia.

There needs to be improved collaboration between agencies to better understand and share risk.

SAR Report and Action Plan

There is strong membership of the SAR group.

There have been 5 meetings so far with a good mix of partner agencies.

In 2013/14 there has been 5 cases considered for SCR/SAR, they are:

a. WW in April 2013b. DR in November 2013c. LT in January 2014d. TS in January 2014e. JM in March 2014

The safeguarding adult activity information for Q4 is not available to present to the Board. It will be sent out by email at a later date

Jane Timson

19 MCA/DOLS Update – Q4

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A recent ruling by the Supreme Court has significantly lowered the threshold in circumstances that are considered to be a Deprivation of Liberty. This represents a huge increase in workload and expense for Local Authorities nationally. It is currently unclear how this will be resolved.

The MCA DOLS steering group meets up every quarter and a Terms of Reference has been drawn up.

There have been 53 requests for MCA DOLS authorisation in 2013/14, compared to 25 the previous year.

Rochdale has an above average performance for a number of applications received per 100,000 adult populations at 33.1, in comparison for North West it is 24.6 and England at 28.3.

There have been 22 or 42% of completed assessments in 2013/14 that have resulted in authorisation being granted but this

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is below the Northwest (50.4%) and England (55%) average.

The combined year-end figure for Authorisation application that was declined was 29. 25 applications did not meet the best interest requirements, and 4 failed to satisfy mental capacity requirements.

Overall in 2013/14, most applications (85%) were completed on behalf of people with mental health problems.

The Board requested to be kept informed regarding developments surrounding the aforementioned judgement.

20 Joint RBSAB/RBSCB Safeguarding Event

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Jane Timson informed the meeting that RBSCB and RBSAB would be holding a joint event in at the Rugby Club in Castleton on Wednesday 4 th

June 2014.

The event is aimed at senior practitioners in health, social care, education and other statutory, voluntary and faith groups who may come into contact with families regarding safeguarding.

The aim of the event is to:

Improve knowledge across age groups.

Help aid understanding of family focus assessments.

Create better understanding of the pathways to support families.

21 AOB

21.1Sheila Downey complimented the members of Safeguarding Business Unit for the work that is now being progressed on behalf of the Board, which is enabling the Board to move forward positively with professionalism.

22 Dates of Future Meetings

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Monday 21st July 20141.00 - 4.00Training & Conference Suite, Floor 1, Number 1 Riverside

Monday 27th October 20141.00 - 4.00Training & Conference Suite, Floor 1, Number 1 Riverside

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