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Introduction

Structure and Membership

Board Overview Vision Statement 2015-18

Board members met on seven occasions throughout Ensuring our safeguarding
2017-18 to discuss and agree the approach to adult
safeguarding work across Tees. arrangements act to help
and protect adults.
The Independent Chair has led on the ongoing and
constructive discussions with the local Safeguarding
Children Boards and Community Safety Partnerships,
on how best to work together.

The Board’s structure continued to be reviewed, Board Members
membership has grown, and attendance across all
working groups has been very positive reflecting the ■ Cleveland Police
increasing range of agencies engaging with the work
of the Board. This expansion included the introduction ■ Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees Clinical
of the Operational Leads Sub-Group. Commissioning Group
■ Hartlepool Borough Council
……………………………………… ■ Middlesbrough Borough Council

■ Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council
Six Sub-Groups ■ South Tees Clinical Commissioning Group

■ Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council
Communication and Engagement
Aim: Improve awareness and involvement of ■ Care Quality Commission
adults at risk, carers and advocates. ■ Catalyst (Voluntary Development Agency in
Stockton-on-Tees)
Learning, Training and Development ■ Cleveland Fire Brigade
Aim: Delivery of a multi-agency training plan
designed to help protect adults at risk. ■ Community Rehabilitation Company:
Durham Tees Valley
Operational Leads (December 2017) ■ Healthwatch Hartlepool
Aim: Enable partners to share good practice,
problem-solve and access support. ■ Healthwatch Stockton
■ Healthwatch South Tees
Performance, Audit and Quality ■ HM Prison Service
Aim: Oversight of the Board’s role to promote
inter-agency co-operation. ■ Middlesbrough Voluntary Development
Agency
Policies, Procedures and Practice ■ National Probation Service
Aim: Development, delivery, monitoring,
evaluation and promotion of local practices. ■ North East Ambulance Service
■ North Tees and Hartlepool NHS
Safeguarding Adults Review Foundation Trust
Aim: Develop and implement Safeguarding Adults ■ Redcar and Cleveland Voluntary
Review processes and procedures. Development Agency

……………………………………… ■ South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

■ Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS

Six Task and Finish Groups Foundation Trust
in 2017-18 ■ Teesside University

■
Thirteen Housing Group

1. Conference Planning
2. Medication Errors
3. Prevention
4. Responding to and Addressing Serious 24 in
Concerns total
5. Self-Neglect
6. Training Needs Analysis

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