The importance of 'safeguarding planning meetings'
Safeguarding planning meetings provide an opportunity to bring together all professionals involved with an adult with care and support needs who has experienced abuse or neglect. The purpose of the meeting is to share information, identify and manage risk, plan how to safeguard the person and review actions. They are a very important aspect of the safeguarding enquiry process when there are complex or rapidly changing circumstances, or lots of partners involved.
The Care Act 2014 sets out the “duty to cooperate” between agencies and working in partnership is one of the 6 safeguarding principles. A successful safeguarding planning meeting relies on the attendance of all invited partners so the whole range of information and perspectives can be considered as part of the safeguarding enquiry process. If you are invited to a safeguarding planning meeting, please make every effort to attend or if that is not possible, send a representative who will be able to participate and feed back. For GPs, this could mean sending another colleague from the practice, although meetings are set up to try and make them as accessible to colleagues as possible, for example by using Microsoft Teams, or fitting them in when it is convenient for example between GP surgeries.
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