Gwent-wide Adult Safeguarding Board Annual Plan 2016/2017– Ratified by Board 28.4.16
PRIOIRTY 1: General functionsWhat do we want to achieve / What are we going to do? / What are the progress measures? / By when / Lead / Outcome and date completed / RAG
1.Ensure that all Board member organisations are aware of and uphold new statutory duties in adult protection / Support the workforce with the implementation of Part 7 of the SS&WB Act through the provision of training and information / % of staff attended the Safeguarding Training Module
Updates and relevant information cascaded
New policy/procedures written and issued with training on its application. / April 17 / Board + WFD leads
WG / April 16 - Priority groups already identified and have attended initial course dates / A
2.Ensure that the Board uphold both functions to protect and prevent abuse / Promote preventative services in adult safeguarding / Mapping and gapping exercise to be completed to highlight the range of preventative services in place
Develop a preventative training package for vulnerable groups / April 17 / Quality Assurance Sub Group
Training Sub Group / April 16 - both pieces of work have commenced. / A
3.Consider other models of adult safeguarding to improve practice and outcomes to adults at risk / Support Gwent Police in scoping the MASH initiative and consider proposals / Receipt of scoping paper and decisions made / April 17 / Board / April 16 - Dedicated resources have been given. Board are awaiting a scoping paper. / A
4.Ensure that frontline staff are aware of and included in the work of the Board / Market, advertise, engage and communicate with frontline practitioners so there is clear mechanisms to transfer messages to and from the Board. This will include reviewing local safeguarding forums and holding annual staff events / Scoping paper providing an overview of what arrangements are in place in each area.
Develop Safeguarding Forums in Gwent
Yearly event for staff to assist the Board setting its Annual Plan and Sub Group Work Plans / April 17 / Board + Engagement and Communication Sub Group / April 16 - scoping paper underway. / A
PRIORITY 2: Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence
What do we want to achieve / What are we going to do? / What are the progress measures? / By when / Lead / Outcome and date completed / RAG
- Prevent and robustly respond to Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence in vulnerable adult groups
Quality Assurance Team / R
Increase % of staff that have attended Violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence training courses. / Identify the baseline from 15/16 and aim to increase this by 20% for 16/17
Implement “Ask and Act” training in the region. / April 17 / VAWDASV Team / R
PRIORITY 3: Quality of Care
What do we want to achieve / What are we going to do? / What are the progress measures? / By when / Lead / Outcome and date completed / RAG
1.Address factors that impact on the quality of care in residential settings / Identify the range of training that is available for staff in residential settings and share as a best practice guide across the region. / Map and gap LA and private training packages and share as information item through the Gwent Provider Forum / April 17 / Training Sub Group / April 16 - work has started in the Training Sub Group / A
Support residential settings to prevent abuse and neglect by learning lessons / Undertake thematic reviews of cases in the care settings and share the lessons with frontline care staff / April 17 / Quality Assurance Sub Group / A
2.Implement the recommendations from “In Search of Accountability” / Ensure that the Adult Safeguarding process is defined more narrowly and more specifically its functions / Work with WG to update In Safe Hands
Review the All Wales POVA policy and procedures
Clearly communicate this on the Board website and other publications / April 17 / Board
E&C Sub Group / April 16 - Board website in place / A
Strengthen the protective outcomes for individuals where there is an allegation or evidence that harm has occurred / Through the application of policy ensure that that either a care assessment or a review of that individual’s care plan is undertaken.
Ensure that all agencies are aware of the need for this to be completed / April 17 / Board
QA Sub Group / April 16 - this practice has started but will need to be embedded / A
Ensure that the NHS is accountable for fulfilling its lead responsibility for investigating pressure ulcers in the residential and nursing care sector / This will be monitored through the Board and action taken as required
Establish a process to identify the NHS contribution to the investigation of allegations of abuse and neglect when this also concerns pressure damage. / Ongoing / Board
QA Sub Group / A
3.Implement recommendations from the Older Person’s Commissioner for Wales review of Care Homes / Older people are offered independent advocacy when safeguarding issues are identified / Ensure that this message is reinforced with adult protection teams
This will be monitored through the core data set / Ongoing / Board
QA Sub Group / A
All care home employees undertake basic dementia training as part of their induction / Map and gap exercise to be undertaken to determine if this is currently completed.
Consideration for this to be added to a regional contract and accompanying specifications. / April 17 / Board
QA Sub Group
Regional Commissioning Board / R
Befriending schemes within care homes to be promoted / Promotion of befriending schemes in the region through using the Engagement and Communication Group, website and social media. / April 17 / Board
Sub Groups / R
Informal and systematic ways to be developed toensure the better understanding of the quality of life of older people, through listening to them directly and ensuring issues they raise are acted upon. / Promotion of the CHAaT service
Development of other programmes to promote the voice of older people in care homes being heard / April 17 / Board and Sub Groups / R
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