Agenda item

Report of the Director of Community & Children’s Services.

The Chairman welcomed Fran Pearson, Independent Chair of the City and Hackney Safeguarding Adults Board (CHSAB), who introduced the CHSAB Annual report for 2013/14. This detailed the priorities for 2013/14 and 14/15, key developments and activity data, as well as the governance and membership of the Adult Safeguarding Board.

Members discussed the report, noting that Safeguarding Adult Boards would be placed on the same statutory footing as Children Safeguarding Boards from April as a result of the Care Act 2014, and that a dedicated budget for the Board had been agreed by all partners. In response to Members’ questions, officers advised that other Local Authorities had specialist teams but the City’s social workers undertook both statutory and non-statutory work.

Ms Pearson echoed Mr Gamble’s praise for the Director of Community & Children’s Services and the Assistant Director of People, as well as Professor Lumley (lead Member on the Adults Safeguarding Board) and other key members of staff in the Community & Children’s Services Department.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.