Introduction
Our vision
Lincolnshire is a place where adults feel safe, secure and free from abuse and harm.
Our mission
To oversee and co-ordinate the effective delivery of safeguarding arrangements across the county with partner agencies.
Independent chair’s introduction
The Lincolnshire Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB) has a statutory duty under the Care Act 2014 to publish a strategic plan. This plan for 2022 to 2025 outlines what our objectives are and how we will achieve them.
As the newly appointed independent chair of the LSAB it is a priority for me to:
- ensure the actions we undertake are based on solid intelligence and evidence
- maximise the impact of our resources
If delivered, this will result in the greatest positive outcomes for adults at risk in Lincolnshire.
The objectives we have set are based upon sound analysis. We undertook a joint needs assessment working with:
- Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children’s Partnership
- Domestic Abuse Partnership
- Safer Lincolnshire Partnership
We analysed adult abuse types, primary locations, profiles of victims and alleged perpetrators. Further analysis of the Lincolnshire annual safeguarding return was used to compliment the work undertaken through the joint needs analysis. The results established the objectives for this new strategic plan.
As chair, my task is to work with our partners, the community, service users and carers. Together we will turn this plan into tangible outcomes to benefit the people of Lincolnshire.
Richard Proctor
Lincolnshire Safeguarding Adults Board
Independent chair
Strategic priorities
We have a responsibility and a legal duty to:
- ensure that Lincolnshire has effective multi-agency arrangements for safeguarding and preventing abuse for our most vulnerable adults
- have a three-year strategy that reflects identified areas of concern in Lincolnshire
- report back on our work each year in an annual report
- review cases where:
- an adult at risk has died or sustained serious abuse or neglect, and
- there are concerns as to how board partner agencies worked together to protect that individual
We must ensure that lessons are learnt, and good practice is shared. This will ensure a more joined up partnership approach to safeguarding.
Find out more about adult safeguarding on our website.
Our strategic priorities
Our overarching priority of the next three years is prevention and early intervention.
We will focus on keeping people safe by mitigating safeguarding risks before they escalate. Priority areas will include:
- further improvement in the quality and safety of residential and nursing care
- preventing and or limiting the impact of pressure sores (across NHS and independent sector providers)
- tackling the domestic abuse of older adults (includes opportunity for joint working the other three statutory boards)
- preventing financial abuse (includes opportunity for joint working with the other three strategic board)
- safeguarding adults with complex needs by piloting phase two of the team around the adult approach
We intend to focus on these areas over the coming years:
Making safeguarding personal (MSP)
We will ensure that all our LSAB partners can consistently evidence a MSP approach to safeguarding practice. In particular:
- partners can evidence that they have spoken to the person at risk prior to raising a safeguarding adult concern
- that all partners will encourage the person at risk (or their advocate) to confirm what outcomes they wish to be achieved
- that we will seek to achieve the outcomes expressed in a personalised way
- that partners will work together to keep people safe and prevent safeguarding risks from escalating
- implementation of our MSP action plan
Learning and shaping future practice
We will ensure that the learning from all our reviews and assurance activities will be shared and embedded within partner agencies. The aim is to reduce the risk of repeat incidents or causes of harm. Key areas of focus will include:
- trailing innovative approaches to safeguarding adult reviews (SARs)
- completing assurance activities to inform the continuous improvement of safeguarding practice across all partners
- identification of themes and trends to drive training and awareness input both locally and nationally, for example, professional curiosity and mental capacity
- build on our ability to evaluate that system-wide change has taken place as a result of the learning
- supporting all stakeholders to improve the quality and impact of their safeguarding activity to improve the outcomes for adults who are abused
- establish a constant cycle of learning and improvement at a local and national level
Safeguarding effectiveness
To support the board to work effectively we will ensure the effective operation and continuous improvement of:
- governance
- scrutiny
- business processes
Our key areas of focus will include:
- developing a flexible and effective communications and engagement strategy. This will include a review of our information and advice offer.
- ensuring our quality assurance process is robust. We will identify any challenges, share best practice and hear the voice of service user. This will incorporate the completion of the local assurance framework by our partners.
- ensuring an effective risk and issues management process and our policy and procedures including a review of our risk register
- data collection and analysis to ensure our work is always based on evidence. This will include the development of an enhanced assurance dashboard for our executive.
- developing a service user and community engagement plan that will help us to further embed our co-production ambitions