About us
The Hampshire Safeguarding Adults Board (HSAB) is a statutory multi-agency partnership providing strategic leadership for adult safeguarding across the local authority area. The Board’s remit is to agree objectives, set priorities and co-ordinate the strategic development of adult safeguarding.
The HSAB acts as the key mechanism for agreeing how agencies will work together effectively to safeguard and promote the safety and well-being of adults at risk and/or in vulnerable situations.
The HSAB aims to promote awareness and understanding of abuse and neglect among service users, carers, professionals, care providers, voluntary sector and the wider community. It works to generate community interest and engagement in safeguarding to ensure “Safeguarding is Everyone’s Business”.
The HSAB is responsible for ensuring that the systems in place locally to protect people at risk are proportionate, balanced and responsive. It commissions safeguarding adult reviews in cases where there have been poor outcomes to ensure that lessons are learned. The HSAB is governed via a Memorandum of Agreement to which all agencies sign up to.
The HSAB 3 core duties:
1. Publish a strategic plan for each financial year that sets how it will meet its main objective and what the members will do to achieve this. The plan must be developed with local community involvement, and the SAB must consult the local Healthwatch organisation. The plan should be evidence based and make use of all available evidence and intelligence from partners to form and develop its plan.
2. Publish an annual report detailing what the SAB has done during the year to achieve its main objective and implement its strategic plan, and what each member has done to implement the strategy as well as detailing the findings of any safeguarding adults reviews and subsequent action.
3. It must conduct any safeguarding adults review in accordance with Section 44 of the Act.
Safeguarding requires collaboration between partners in order to create a framework of inter-agency arrangements. The diagram below illustrates our connection with Multiagency Partners, Subgroups, Boards and Forums.
