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BSAB ANNUAL REPORT 2017-18 BSAB ANNUAL REPORT 2017-18 2 CONTENTS 1 Title Page 2 Contents 3 Foreword from the Independent Chair 4 Welcome to Brent 5 What is Safeguarding? 6 Principles of Adult Safeguarding 7 How to Report Abuse in Brent 8 Safeguarding Activity in Brent 9 The Safeguarding Adults Board Strategic Plan 10 Structure of the Board and Its Sub-Groups 11 Case Study 12 Changes within the London Borough of Brent 13 Case Study 14 Partner Organisation Contributions 15 Safeguarding Adult Reviews 16 Brent Safeguarding Adults Board Budget, Income and Expenditure 2017-2018 17 The Coming 12 Months and Future Learning Events 2 BSAB ANNUAL REPORT 2017-18 3 Introduction by the Independent Chair of Brent Safeguarding Adults Board It is my pleasure to introduce you to this with respect to Adult C, Adult D and Adult E. Obtaining reliable performance management annual report. I hope that you will find much of Details of these cases are described in this data with which to scrutinise how effectively interest as we review the year in question and annual report. Again, there have been complex adults are being safeguarded from abuse and highlight our future objectives. We have tried police and social care investigations in some neglect remains a challenge but the Board has to make the report accessible and informative. of these cases. The importance of finding developed an approach to collecting quantitative We received positive feedback on how we safe and effective placements, and of offering data from across all agencies. Work is now presented last year’s annual report and we have health and social care services that can meet underway to add a qualitative picture alongside tried to build on that approach. people’s complex needs, is a recurring theme the statistics which will enable analysis of the in these cases. outcomes of policy and practice. The Board held its first adult safeguarding conference, with keynote presentations and The challenge now for the Board will be to Along with its partners the Board remains workshops on making safeguarding personal, disseminate the findings of these safeguarding vigilant about standards in care settings and self-neglect, mental capacity and financial adult reviews and to use them to keep under increasingly concerned about unregulated abuse. Adult safeguarding conferences will constant scrutiny the strengths and vulnerabilities providers. The Board has discussed become an annual event and the second is of policy and practice locally. Quarterly learning safeguarding adult reviews that have been already being planned. The graphics developed and service development seminars will be published by other Safeguarding Adults Boards during that conference have been used to arranged to keep the focus on the learning from and has raised concerns through the London illustrate this annual report. safeguarding adult reviews and to help the Board Safeguarding Adults Board. to drive improvements in policy and practice. During 2017/2018, the Board worked towards The commitment of agencies in Brent to work completion of the safeguarding adult review There remain considerable challenges of together to safeguard adults from abuse and concerning Adult B. There were complex course. The public and third sectors continue neglect, at both strategic and operational police and social care investigations. The to experience financial austerity, the impact of levels, remains strong and provides a platform Board also began safeguarding adult reviews which directly affects the resource available to on which to build on the work described in this keep adults safe from abuse and neglect and to annual report. meet their care and support needs. Health and social care practitioners are having to manage Finally, I would like to record my appreciation for increasingly complex cases. In addition to types the work of James Pearce, Meenara Islam, Janine of abuse and neglect that have become sadly all Georgias and Nikoleta Nikolova, who have too familiar, such as physical and financial abuse, managed and supported the work of the Board. and neglect, practitioners are also having to be This has enabled effective and efficient conduct vigilant in identifying and responding effectively of the Board’s business. I also acknowledge to cases of modern slavery and human everyone working on adult safeguarding in the trafficking, and of self-neglect and hoarding. Board’s partner agencies. Adult safeguarding is The Board is working with partners to develop indeed everyone’s business. guidance for responding to such cases. Professor Michael Preston-Shoot 3 BSAB ANNUAL REPORT 2017-18 4 Welcome to Brent • Brent population: 334,800 and is the sixth most Queensbury E densely populated borough in London. D G W A ROE GREEN R • 11.8% of the population aged 65 and over. O AD E N R PARK TO R N K ING O M E S A K B 1 U R D • 53% were born abroad making Brent Kingsbury Y M R O A D O the 2nd most popular borough for T Kenton O F R R W international migration. Y FRYENT E COUNTRY A N Y T PARK W Y E W • Life expectancy in Brent (male 80.12, A L Northwick B BARNHILL T A F M OPEN WELSH HARP Park Y O E SPACE OPEN SPACE female 85.1) is similar to the average for R W D NORTHWICK R Preston London (male 80.34, female 84.2) with O PARK A Road BRENT Mortality rate from causes considered D PRESTON RESERVOIR South PARK preventable 158.5 per 100,000 population Kenton C D R A I O C (London average 167.7). R K TY AVENUE FO RTY LA NE L FOR R E A W L Wembley O U O • According to the Trust for London, 33% EA Park C D ST LA R N E I B E D R A C of the population of Brent is defined N O O North A R A Cricklewood L WEMBLEY H L D Wembley L T K I STADIUM GLADSTONE W H R as living in Poverty and 32% earn less R KING A A Y O PARK Y EDWARD VII P E D L N U than the London living wage, this is a PARK B D S 6 M D H E O 0 E O W Wembley 4 N higher rate than almost all other London RO Neasden T H A D A G Stadium H E U I H H I N P Boroughs (one borough out of 32 is A L A D R L H A L H A R R O R IL R O W O L L Wembley A ranked higher). Dollis Willesden M Central W N L E R E Hill Green A A O W A D H K L D A I G IL I H D Kilburn B N O R O A B • 2.65 people had a learning disability R U R G D W I R QUEENSBURY I H R L L D E N G R C T H S O R U D Brondesbury getting long-term support in E Stonebridge Brondesbury U O E A M W D N D ROUNDWOOD Park I Park A H CH L D S H BRENTFIELD RD PARK A Brent per 1,000 of the T A I L N I E L S G E R Alperton O I D A C H R E CR VEN FRYENT H R P R population against an A E A KENTON A O R M S R L V A U K B A O A D C E L R R average of 2.77 people A I U C S L D A S Kilburn H L Kensal T Y QUEENS B R U N U Park per 1,000 in the London Rise E PARK O R Harlesden O N R Y H S D Queens Kilburn BARNHILL 6 A R D 0 E L High Road area (Source PH) 4 N R Park D R WELSH HARP A A L NORTHWICK PARK L R O A C K W ARLTON VALE PRESTON DOLLIS HILL N Kensal O R O A AR T D Green P A 4 0 C M W A E S T Willesden E R N URN A Junction B E N MAPESBURY U E SUDBURY DUDDEN HILL KIL TOKYNGTON WEMBLEY CENTRAL WILLESDEN GREEN BRONDESBURY PARK STONEBRIDGE HARLESDEN ALPERTON KILBURN KENSAL GREEN QUEENS PARK 4 BSAB ANNUAL REPORT 2017-18 5 What Is Adult Safeguarding? Queensbury The profile of Adult Safeguarding increased in 2000 with the release of E D the ‘No Secrets Guidance’. The Care Act 2014 made Local Authorities and G W A its partners responsible for protecting vulnerable adults (loosely defined ROE GREEN R O AD E N R PARK TO R as adults with care and support needs) who are at risk of abuse or N K ING O M E S A K B 1 U R D neglect. This gave safeguarding adults its first legal footing and replaced Kingsbury Y M R O A D O previous statutory guidance. The Act requires Safeguarding Adults T Kenton O F R R W Boards to publish an annual report and strategic plan, to commission Y FRYENT E COUNTRY A N Y Safeguarding Adult Reviews, and to hold partner agencies accountable T PARK W Y E W A L Northwick B BARNHILL T for how they work together to protect adults from abuse and harm. The A F M OPEN WELSH HARP Park Y O E SPACE OPEN SPACE R W Act stated that partner agencies and services must work together to D NORTHWICK R Preston O PARK implement strategies to protect vulnerable adults.