The board hold regular meetings, and the subgroups of the board do, too.  One of those subgroups, and perhaps the most important, is the Safeguarding Adults Review Group.  They meet each month and one of their priorities is to review any SAR referrals.  This small group consists of representatives from adult social services, the police, health and a solicitor.  We have other subgroups too which you can read more about here. 

We also do a whole host of other things, other than meetings!  Nicola, Becky, Andrea and Petra are the business team of NSAB and one of our key roles is to promote adult safeguarding.  We support training, via Norfolk County Council or our preferred supplier, St Thomas Training, as well as promote courses and webinars hosted by other organisations.  We link in with our colleagues in the Norfolk Safeguarding Children Partnership and we present to a wide range of groups to share the safeguarding message.  We also try and attend as many safeguarding meetings as possible with partner agencies – including district councils and the local diocese.

We work with Norfolk & Suffolk Care Support, Norfolk County Council, police and the Integrated Care Board to support providers of care and link in with local, regional and national groups/forums in order to identify common themes, share knowledge, learning and resources.  Our aim is to focus on prevention as much as possible and our business plan, which we review regularly, ensures that we concentrate on the priorities at that time.  One of our key areas of interest is self-neglect and hoarding and we have shared our self-neglect and hoarding strategy online and with many of our partner agencies and other organisations.  Our guidance and information sheets are also a very popular resource.  We work closely with subject matter experts in order to bring these to you.

As mentioned earlier, we're here to promote adult safeguarding.  It might be the digital age but we also need to reach those people who don’t use or have access to digital devices, so we use promotional materials such as posters and leaflets which we encourage partner organisations to print and display in their premises.  If you're unable to print them, we have a small supply that we can send to you so please get in touch