Luton Safeguarding Adults Board

The Luton Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB) is a partnership of statutory and non-statutory partners working together to safeguard adults at risk of abuse or neglect, in accordance with the Section 6 (7) of the Care Act 2014.

Under this Act, Luton Council has the statutory duty to establish and maintain the board and all partner organisations have legal obligation to co-operate with one another at both strategic and operational levels to address safeguarding concerns within Luton.

Board’s Vision – sets out the overall vision of the Board and the outcomes it wants to achieve for the citizens of Luton.

In order to ensure that the fulfilment of its vision, the Safeguarding Adults Board is working with local communities to prevent abuse, identify, report and end any abuse that is occurring and support people who have suffered abuse, both to recover and to regain trust in those around them.

Click to view the Luton LSAB Business Plan 2021-2023.

The board’s mission is reflected in 7 strategically identified work streams, delivered through the operations of its subgroups – this is to ensure that the business of the board is effectively managed and progressed, to ensure that partner agencies are fulfilling their statutory obligations in accordance with the Care Act 2014.

The LSAB delegates power to its subgroups to carry out work related to the Boards business plan; undertake consultation as appropriate; make decisions on work related to the Board where authority has been specifically delegated by the Board; investigate a particular issue; publish material on behalf of the Board; prepare a response to consultation matters on behalf of the Board, discharge any functions delegated to it from the Board.

The Board is led by an independent Chair who is responsible for the overall management of Board work. Led by the Chair, the Board identifies an annual set of priorities that determine the LSAB work plan for the year. The Board operates on financial year April – March.

Key priorities for 2020/2023

OBJECTIVES:

The LSAB should support and / or seek assurance

1. 1. Organisations and Board compliance on the legal duties under the Care Act through an informed understanding of safeguarding arrangements and performance in single agencies and an authoritative oversight of the quality of front-line multi-agency practice.
   2. Support operational practice through the provision of relevant multi-agency policy or practice guidance.
   3. Ensure learning from audits, significant Incidents and Safeguarding Adult Reviews is identified and is used to develop practice and service provision.
   4. Ensure the provision of high quality multi-agency safeguarding training and evaluate the impact on practice of such training

KEY THEMES/PRIORITIES:

The Board has also identified three key areas to focus its work upon:

• Domestic abuse ( joint with LSCB)
• Implementing learning from SARs and relevant CSPR’s
• Emotional wellbeing and mental health ( work on 16-25yrs is also part of the LSCB priority on emotional wellbeing and mental health)
• Cybercrime

Consideration of the Making Safeguarding Personal, the wishes and feelings of the person and their lived experience should be a part of everything we do.

The Care Act says that Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) must be carried out when someone who needs care and support dies or suffers serious harm because of neglect or abuse and there is a concern that the agencies could have done more to keep them safe.

The review should help to identify what could be done differently to try and prevent the same thing happening again to someone else.

The reviews are reported in the Boards Annual Report.

• Adult D SAR Report Final July 2022
• Adult D – Report Brief
• Luton Thematic Analysis FINAL REPORT August 2021
• Mr B Final Report
• Beech Care Home
• Adult Abdullah October 2020
• Adult A Safeguarding Adult Review Published on 27 February 2020
• Executive Summary of Adult F (Helen) Safeguarding Adults Review
• Executive Summary of Serious Case Review Adult G
• Professor Michael Preston-Shoot’s statement
• Independent Inquiry Overview report ward 17 at Luton and Dunstable Hospital
• Executive Summary Adult C Safeguarding Adult Review Final November 2023

The LSAB publishes an annual report setting out the work it has undertaken. The Care Act 2014 requires each SAB to publish an annual report.

As soon as it is feasible after the end of each financial year, a SAB must publish a report on:

• what it has done during that year to achieve its objective,
• what it has done during that year to implement its strategy,
• what each member has done during that year to implement the strategy,
• the findings of the reviews arranged by it under section 44 (safeguarding adults reviews) which have concluded in that year (whether or not they began in that year),
• the reviews arranged by it under that section which are ongoing at the end of that year (whether or not they began in that year),
• what it has done during that year to implement the findings of reviews arranged by it under that section, and
• where it decides during that year not to implement a finding of a review arranged by it under that section, the reasons for its decision.

2021-22 Annual Report

2019-21 Annual Report

2018-19 Annual Report

2016-17 Annual Report

2015-16 Annual Report

2014-15 Annual Report

Modern Slavery Victim Poster

Modern Slavery Fact Sheet

Modern Slavery Factsheet Guidance

Sexual Exploitation 3-Minute Briefing

Are you worried about someone? Please see:

Safeguarding Adults 

Tel: 01582 547730

Email: adultsafeguarding@luton.gov.uk

To contact us about the work of the Luton Safeguarding Adults Board email us: lutonsafeguardingadultsboard@luton.gov.uk or call: 01582 547590