Covers south Norfolk area. Linked to two local council areas (South Norfolk and part of Breckland).

Co chairs: Steven (NCH&C) and Liam (South Norfolk & Broadland District Council).

Some organisations who attend:

• adult social care
• East of England Community Health and Care
• Hertfordshire Partnership Trust (LD services)
• voluntary sector
• police
• district councils 
• MIND
• DWP
• housing providers
• care providers

2025

In the July meeting, the South LSAP had a presentation from an occupational therapist who had thought about the role of therapists in safeguarding adults. It opened up a great discussion about how understanding of things can contribute to unintentional harm, such as moving and handling techniques or equipment use.

There was a quiz on modern slavery, using local as well as national data, which got great engagement, and links to short videos that members can share on. Information about the work of the Community Safety Partnership was shared, with a new dedicated website around exploitation, including more resources, and a dedicated subgroup looking at cuckooing.

On a very positive note, there was some feedback from the safeguarding adults team to community health colleagues, particularly in relation to doing very thorough and transparent safeguarding investigations - our groups do try and promote the good news too!

2024

From a meeting where 'Raising a concern' was the topic, some of the themes and issues identified:

• Importance of communication and relationships in multi-agency working
• High volume of safeguarding concerns coming in to the local authority
• Staff shortages causing some delay but teams working hard to address backlogs
• The importance of acknowledging feedback and how it can improve the safeguarding process
• Positive experiences of using help hubs to collaborate.

2023

The September meeting date was changed rather last minute so it was a smaller group than usual that met to discuss neglect and self-neglect - however the topic inspired valuable conversation as usual!

We talked about what constitutes a safeguarding concern, how agencies can work together to prevent situations progressing into a safeguarding issue, and also reflected how high numbers of safeguarding concerns care going to the local authority, but, as with many statutory services, there are limited staff to progress enquiries.