Purpose

The
Safeguarding Adults Board Strategy 2025-30 sets out the Boards five
year strategy for safeguarding adults, outlining the priorities of
the Board and detailing the actions required to achieve those
priorities.

Content

DECISION
 

1.    
Notes the attached Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) Strategy
2025-30
 

2.    
Formally confirm the council’s adoption of the SAB
Strategy 2025-30 as a core member of the
SAB 

Reasons for the decision

1.    
Local Authorities have a duty under the Care Act 2014 to
establish and maintain a Safeguarding Adults Board, with
responsibility for all adult safeguarding across the entire
locality area.
 

2.    
The SAB is required to coordinate and ensure the
effectiveness of safeguarding work done by its member organizations
and as part of its core duties it must publish an evidence based
strategic plan for each financial year that sets out how it will
meet its objectives.
 

3.    
Senior officers from the Health Adults and Social Care
department within Tower Hamlets Council, including the Director of
Adult Social Care, have participated in the development of the
strategy to support alignment of the strategy with the local
authority’s priorities. 

Alternative options considered

If the council
wishes to request any changes to the SAB strategy then it may do so
via the Independent Chair of the SAB, who would take the decision
as to whether to incorporate these changes. If this requires the
final version to come back through the council’s governance
processes then this could add considerably to the time required for
sign-off by SAB members and delay adoption of the strategy by the
SAB as a whole.
 
Failure to adopt
the SAB strategy at all would mean that the SAB, and the council as
a statutory member of the SAB, is not meeting its statutory duties,
with the reputational and best value-related risks associated with
that course of action.