Issue - meetings

The purpose of the attached Croydon Safeguarding Adults Board (CSAB) Annual Report is to detail the activity and effectiveness of the CSAB between 1 April 2021, to 31 March 2022.

The Executive Mayor, in Cabinet, is recommended to:

Note the content of the Annual Report for the Croydon Safeguarding Adult Board. The report will be considered by Cabinet on 16 November 2022 and to receive the recommendations arising from the Health and Social Care Scrutiny Committee taking place on 18 October 2022.

Cabinet considered the public facing annual report of the CSAB Annual Report, which detailed the activity and effectiveness of the CSAB between 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 and ensured that the statutory partners (Council, Health and Police), residents and other agencies had been given the opportunity to provide objective feedback on the work and effectiveness of local arrangements for safeguarding adults.

The report covered the 2021/22 priorities and demonstrated what had been achieved and the work which needed to continue throughout 2022/23.

At the invitation of the Executive Mayor, Mr David Williams, Independent Chair to the CSAB, (who was appointed to this role on 5 September 2022 and had not been in post during the period which the report covered) introduced the report.

Mr Williams said that the production of the annual report was a statutory function of the Board and that he had overseen the bringing together of all the information.  He thanked all partners and Chairs of sub-groups for their co-operation and confirmed that the Board had taken on board some of the scrutiny recommendations.

Mr Williams went on to say that more measurable data was one of the areas it was looking at and what it needed to be doing going forward.

Mr Williams said that feedback had suggested that the report was easily readable and that the work of partnership had been key.  He was pleased to announce that the Vice-Chair had now joined the Board and that it was looking more and more at the feedback from scrutiny and how it developed its dashboard over the next year.

In response to a Member’s question regarding concerns that the Council may not be reaching all residents concerned, the Cabinet Member for Adults and Social Care said that Croydon was one of the first boroughs to have a voice for the people group and was well ahead of other London boroughs insofar as what had been developed already.

The Executive Mayor, in Cabinet, RESOLVED that the content of the Annual Report for the Croydon Safeguarding Adult Board (CSAB), be noted.