The Leicester City Safeguarding Adults Board is in the process of setting up its own website.
In the interim, the information below will be hosted by Leicester City Council.
About the Board
Membership of the Board
Purpose of the Board
Download the Board's constitution
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The Leicester City Safeguarding Adults Board (LCSAB) was established
in April 2010, following the disaggregation of the Leicester, Leicestershire
and Rutland Safeguarding Adults Board. It meets four times a year.
The Board has responsibility for safeguarding all vulnerable
adults living in care settings and in the community. Vulnerable people are those aged 18 years and over who are
in need of community or residential care services, because of physical and/or
sensory disability, mental health issues, age or ill health and who is may be
unable to protect themselves against harm or exploitation.
The Board comprises a significant number of organisations
and roles within those organisations, as detailed below, however Leicester City
Council is the lead agency.
A copy of the full constitution of the Board can be downloaded below.
- BME communities’ representative
- Cabinet Lead Member - Adults and
Older People
- Care Quality Commission (CQC)
Representative
- Connexions Leicestershire
- Crown Prosecution Service
- De Montfort University Faculty of
Health and Science representative
- Deputy Director, Leicester PCT
- Director of Quality, Leicester
PCT
- Drugs and Alcohol Action Team
(DAAT)
- East Midlands Ambulance Service
NHS Trust
- EMCare carers’ representative
- Faith Communities representative
- Family Welfare Association
- GP Representative
- Housing Association
representative
- Job Centre Plus
- Lead on Safeguarding Leicester
City PCT
- Leicester City Children’s Service
- Leicester City Community Health
Service
- Leicester City Council, Director
of Children’s Social Care and Safeguarding
- Leicester City Council Director
of Housing Strategy and Options
- Leicester City Council Domestic
Violence Co-ordinator
- Leicester City Council, Adult
Social Care Services, including the Director of Adults Services
- Leicester City Council, Director
of Safer and Stronger Communities
- Leicester City Council, Media
Relations Manager
- Leicester City Mental Health
Service
- Leicester Housing Association Supported
Services
- Leicester Partnership NHS Trust
- Leicester Partnership Trust
- Leicestershire and Rutland
Probation Service
- Leicestershire Constabulary
- Leicestershire Fire Service
- Leicestershire Medical Council
- MAPPA
- NHS Direct East Midlands
- NHS East Midlands - Strategic
Health Authority
- NHS Leicester City
- Nominated Geriatrician
- Provider Representative
- University Hospitals of Leicester
NHS Trust, Head of Safeguarding
- Voluntary Action, Leicester
- Voluntary agencies reference
group representative
- Works and Pensions
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The main purpose of the Board is to ensure that all
organisations providing or commissioning services for adults in Leicester work
in a coordinated way that promotes health and well-being, safeguarding and
protecting adults from abuse. In
addition to this overarching vision it has a number of other functions:
- Co-ordinate
the activities carried out by each person and/or body represented on the Board
for the purpose of safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of
vulnerable adults.
- Ensure
the effectiveness of all actions by each person or body for those purposes.
- Develop
and promote ‘information sharing’ protocols between all organisations.
- Agree,
monitor, review and evaluate the outcomes of the Board management business plan
to promote the health and wellbeing of adults with a particular emphasis on
prevention and keeping people safe.
- To work
with the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board on issues that affect families and
the wider community.
- To
develop and implement policies, procedures and protocols that promote the
health and well being, safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults within a common cultural framework.
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