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management systems and also to provide some clarity around the enquiries undertaken prior to
submitting a SAR notification as agreed on a regional basis. Members approved the Other Enquiries
Guidance.

 People in Positions of Trust
The Task & Finish group have considered this subject on a number of occasions. Currently there is no
TSAB guidance around this. Statutory agencies have been asked to provide a brief outline of the
procedures they follow when incidents of this nature come to their attention and these have been
collated. It is clear that it would be difficult to consolidate these into one standard approach. There is
some national work ongoing which may result in further guidance being issued and the group will await
this before progressing any local work. In the meantime the Board has assurance from partners that
procedures are in place.

Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SAR) Sub-Group

 Attendance
This continues to be a busy and challenging Sub-Group. An email was sent to Board partners to confirm
their SAR Sub-Group representative and to also confirm their deputy. There are some partners who
have yet to confirm.

 Links to Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs)
This subject has been added to TSAB Development Session for further discussion. AB enquired if there
are ways to work smarter together; Reviews take up a lot of time and resources and quite often involve
similar conversations, learning and the same professionals often attend these meetings.

 Team Around the Individual (TATI) – CCG Attendance
It was highlighted at the previous Board meeting that CCG do not attend the TATI meetings. There are
considerable structural changes within the CCG at the moment with the North/South Tees
arrangements extending into a Tees Valley arrangement (including Durham and Darlington). Alison
Peevor (AP) to discuss representation at TATI meetings with Jean Golightly (JG).

Cases details have been removed due to confidentiality.

Operational Leads Sub-Group

 Loneliness and Isolation Summary
One of the actions from this year’s strategic business plan was to seek assurance via OLSG from
partners. The assurance report summarises the information provided by partners and the full reports
have been added as appendices. Local Authorities advised of the services they provide and
commission which promote early help and intervention and promote people’s independence within our
communities. They also provided information on the work they are doing to combat loneliness and
isolation, some of these are overlapping. Other partners provided information about the activities they
undertake to reduce loneliness and to promote social inclusion. TSAB have also undertaken some
focused promotion work this year within local magazines, social media and via the recent surveys to
seek people’s views on future priorities. The Board also had an interesting presentation from Age UK.

Results from the Annual Consultation Survey indicate that this remains a high priority for the general
public in particular and further discussion on actions will take place at the Board Development Day.

 Joint Working with Police
Discussed under agenda point 2.

 Multi-Agency Audit Report – SBC Modern Slavery Cases
Multi-agency audits are undertaken quarterly, it has been agreed that these will come to Board to share
as good practice as recommended by the Josh SAR report. A copy of the Multi-Agency Audit Report
was shared for information.
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