Issue - meetings

RESOLVED:

1.    That Cabinet notes the Surrey Safeguarding Adults Annual Report for 2020/2021.

Reasons for Decisions:

This recommendation demonstrates that the Council is fulfilling its statutory requirement under the Care Act 2014 in having established a Safeguarding Adults Board in its area.

It will support the SSAB to be transparent by providing information to the public on the performance of the Board and its strategic plan.

The Cabinet Member for Adults and Health introduced the report and explained that it had been a very busy year for safeguarding adults especially with the challenges of Covid. The Independent Chairman of the Surrey Safeguarding Adults board, Simon Turpitt was thanked along with his team for the work undertaken to protect vulnerable adults. The Independent Chairman commented that it had been a challenging year for the board but there had been a great response from all partners especially during lockdown. The Board was seeing a continual rise in referrals for Domestic Abuse and towards the end of the year there had been a significant increase in requests for

Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SAR’s) some of which had been joint reviews with

Domestic Homicide.

RESOLVED:

1.    That Cabinet notes the Surrey Safeguarding Adults Annual Report for 2020/2021.

Reasons for Decisions:

This recommendation demonstrates that the Council is fulfilling its statutory requirement under the Care Act 2014 in having established a Safeguarding Adults Board in its area.

It will support the SSAB to be transparent by providing information to the public on the performance of the Board and its strategic plan.