SAFEGUARDING ADULTS CASE CONFERENCE: AGENDA
ADULT AT RISK INVESTIGATION (LEVEL 2 OR 3)

1Welcome and introductions

2This meeting is held in line with Hampshire’s Multi-Agency Safeguarding Adults Policy. The purpose of the meeting is to share information about (add name of adult at risk here)and the allegation/s of abuse; to share the outcomes of the investigation, and to agree actions that protect the adult at risk.
Central to the safeguarding process are the views and desired outcomes of the adult at risk.Everybody’s views within this meeting will be respected and everything discussed will remain confidential. Please check with the Chair if you have any questions about sharing information from this meeting.
The minutes are an accurate summary of the discussion, not a verbatim record.

3Factual accuracy of minutes of strategymeeting to be agreed

4a: Recap of allegations and concerns raised at previous meeting
b:Do the concerns represent an on-going risk to the adult at risk or
anyone else?

5Outcomes of the investigation plan:
Review of actions from strategy meeting

6Does anybody have any updates or new information about the situation?

7Adult at risk views:

  • Would you like to add anything to what you have heard?
  • What do you want to happen?
  • What else would help you feel safer?

8 Risk assessment

9Safeguarding allegation/s:

  • Not determined/inconclusive
  • Inconclusive pending investigation
  • Not substantiated
  • Part substantiated
  • Substantiated

10 Update of protection plan:whatis going to happen to help keep you safer

  • Feedback to adult at risk / representative
  • Inform relevant parties of immediate actions:

Hantsdirect / Out of Hours

CQC – send minutes if registered service provider is implicated

Health

Other

  • LEGAL REQUIREMENT: record outcomes e.g.

AIS (including Provider View if relevant)

RiO

  • Other actions as agreed by the attendees

11Review of the level of seriousness and intervention, and brief reasons
for decision

12The status of the case was agreed by those attending as:
Open to safeguardingorClosed to safeguarding

13Does anyone disagree with any of the decisions made?
Please provide details

14Next meeting:(if required)
Date:
Time:
Venue:
Format:
Attendees:

GUIDANCE FOR CHAIR AND CARE MANAGER

  • Invite the adult at risk to the meeting where possible, to enhance engagement and involvement. If they are able to attend, please consider the suitability of the venue and whether it would be more appropriate to hold the meeting in two parts.
  • Some parts of the agenda allow for general discussion, after which the Chair may wish to summarise the consensus views and reasons for decisions. Any differing views can be minuted rather than the Minute Taker recording the whole discussion.
  • Section9: consensus decision based on “balance of probabilities”
  • Section 10: protection planning – Chair to lead discussion and focus on Safeguarding concerns, and to ensure attendees know which actions they are responsible for, prior to leaving the meeting. Chair to use discussion on risks and outcomes to inform protection plan and actions.
  • Section 11: Levels of Seriousness - Chair to lead discussion and gain a consensus view on risk using the Levels of Response and Seriousness tool.
  • Section 14: next meeting -please consider whether any on-going risks could be managed through Care Management.

GUIDANCE FOR MINUTE TAKER

  • Print pages 1 and 2 only for handing out to attendees.
  • Some parts of the agenda allow for general discussion, after which the Chair may wish to summarise the consensus views and reasons for decisions. Any differing views can be minuted rather than the Minute Taker recording the whole discussion.
  • Do not delete any sections of the template - use ‘not discussed’ or ‘not applicable’.
  • Use appropriate sub-headings within sections as required - for example: ‘Feedback from Care Management review’).
  • Use full names of all parties involved, including alleged perpetrators (exception: use initials and AIS ref for other adult at risks)
  • Where concerns have not yet been substantiated please ensure references to abuse and perpetrators are recorded as ‘alleged’
  • Check with the Chair in the event of any doubts about who should receive the minutes from the meeting.
  • Immediately after the meeting please inform the meeting planner if a follow-on meeting date has been agreed and, if it is at the same venue, consider booking the room
  • Section 5:investigation plan - review of actions - copy and paste the table of actions from the previous meeting minutes, and record outcomes within it as applicable.

L2 or L3 CC – Adult at risk – Agenda – July 2014 – v1