Updated March 2025 Version 4

Objective of the LSAPs

To support Norfolk safeguarding Adults Board (NSAB) work within localities to ensure that our communities:

• Have a culture that does not tolerate abuse
• Work together to prevent harm
• Know what to do when abuse happen

Purpose

To communicate and deliver the above by providing a local forum where agencies can meet collectively to increase learning across the safeguarding network and improve inter-agency work to achieve positive outcomes for adults at risk.

To promote consistency of high quality, effective safeguarding practice across partner agencies.

To promote best practice and active learning approaches within our partnerships, by:

• sharing back learning and safeguarding information from the meetings into workplaces and teams
• leading / co-ordinating local publicity / community safeguarding awareness
• identifying local training needs (to be raised to Business Group)

To maintain strong two-way communication with the strategic NSAB, its subgroups, and other partnerships, particularly with reference to matters of policy and practice.

To raise successes, issues and concerns (through the NSAB Business Group) and escalate (to NSAB) as appropriate, supported by the deputy Board manager.

To promote, where appropriate, the implementation of learning and recommendations from Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs) within the locality, using material provided by NSAB.

To identify local priorities and areas in need of development to NSAB, for inclusion in local and county wide strategic planning.

To support the provision of professional advice to those involved in safeguarding adults work in the local area.

Membership and chairing

LSAPs are local level collaborative groups, relevant to anyone whose role has a safeguarding focus, including (but not exclusively):

• Adult social care
• District councils
• Faith groups
• Health
  • Acute health
  • Ambulance
  • Community health
  • Mental health
• Housing providers
• Norfolk libraries
• Police
• Probation
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Trading Standards
• Service providers
• Voluntary and community sector

The co-chairs, LSAP members, and the NSAB deputy board manager can offer membership to any other relevant organisation/ agency who can support the group’s key tasks.

There are five LSAPs in Norfolk, each covering a locality area – North (NLSAP), South (SLSAP), East (ELSAP), West (WLSAP) and Central (Norwich area) (CLSAP). LSAPs meet six times a year (bi-monthly). The majority of meetings are held virtually as locality areas; two meetings each year will be face to face as a whole county group.

Members are asked to attend a minimum of four meetings each year to ensure consistency and effectiveness of participation; members agree to send a replacement wherever possible in the event they are unable to attend in order to meet this commitment.

The LSAP members will agree two co-chairs who may be representatives of any agency.  There is no set term and when a chair steps down any member of the group may put themselves forward for the position.  

The co-chairs will take responsibility for leading the partnership, including communication with the partnership, NSAB and other local networks, and maintaining focus on achieving the key objective. There is no restriction on the number of times an individual can serve in the role as co-chair. In the absence of a nomination for co-chair this role must be taken by a locality manager from Norfolk County Council adult social care.

LSAPs will conduct their meetings in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Caldicott Guardian principles. LSAPs are governed by the Norfolk Safeguarding Adults Board.

Key tasks for members

• Maintain active representation of your organisation through regular participation in meetings, working in partnership to achieve the LSAP objectives.
• Share information and good practice on safeguarding adults within the locality through feedback to your own organisations.
• Advise NSAB of safeguarding concerns and issues of common interest, including raising risks to the Business Group or making direct referrals to Norfolk County Council as appropriate.

Record of meetings, actions and reports

A record of the meeting must be made, this can be either be as formal minutes or an action log whichever is best suited to the partnership.

All LSAPs have allocated business support provided by Norfolk County Council to provide consistency. Minutes and/or action log will be prepared and issued electronically within one month of the date of the meeting. A copy will be shared with partnership members and the NSAB deputy board manager.

After each round of meetings the NSAB deputy manager will submit a summary report to the NSAB Business Group and also provide an update at full Board meetings.