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Barnsley Safeguarding Adults Board
Barnsley Safeguarding Adults Board is the statutory body that brings together organisations like the health service, GPs, housing, social care, police, and the fire service, to help protect and reduce the risk of harm to people with care and support needs.
To do this we make sure that:
- local safeguarding arrangements are in place
- our safeguarding practice is person-centred
- we work together to prevent abuse and neglect
- agencies and individuals give timely and proportionate responses when abuse or neglect have occurred
- our safeguarding practice continuously improves and enhances the quality of life for adults in our area
We ensure that those who work to safeguard adults use a joined-up and consistent approach to referral, assessment, planning, intervention, and service case review, when some has, or is at risk of being, abused.
Our responsibilities
The Safeguarding Adults Board is responsible for leading safeguarding arrangements across the borough and for overseeing, co-ordinating and challenging the effectiveness of the work of our members and partner agencies.
We have a duty of care to make sure that procedures are in place to encourage reporting of suspected abuse, and to take action to stop it.
We also have a responsibility to develop and actively promote a culture among our members, partners, and our communities, that recognises the values and principles contained in Making Safeguarding Personal - putting the person at the centre of everything we do during a safeguarding enquiry, from the very beginning to the very end.
Find out more about the board in the Barnsley Safeguarding Adults Board terms of reference.
Our statutory duties
Under the Care Act 2014 we have to:
- develop and publish a strategic plan setting out how we'll meet our objectives and how our member and partner agencies will contribute
- publish a safeguarding adults annual report detailing how effective their work has been
- commission Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs) for cases where an adult dies or is seriously harmed as a result of abuse or neglect
Member organisations
The following organisations are involved in keeping adults safe.
The board meets six times a year to agree a work plan and review how well we're doing. Our findings are published in our safeguarding adults annual report.
| Role | Organisation |
| Independent Chair - Vanessa Rolfe | Independent Chair |
| Designated Nurse Safeguarding Adults and Patient Experience, Integrated Care Board |
Pathways and Partnership Sub-group Chair |
| Service Director | Barnsley Council - Performance Management and Quality Assurance Sub Group Chair |
| Safeguarding Adults Board Manager | Barnsley Council |
| Service Director, Public Health | Barnsley Council |
| Family Intervention Service Manager | Berneslai Homes |
| Deputy Director of Nursing | Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Cabinet Spokesperson | Barnsley Council |
| Chief Executive | Voluntary Action Barnsley |
| Executive Director | People Directorate, Barnsley Council |
| Vice Principal | Barnsley College |
| Vice Principal | Northern College |
| Assistant Director of Nursing | South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
| Chief Superintendent | South Yorkshire Police |
| Chief Nurse | Integrated Care Board |
| Safeguarding Children Partnership Manager | Barnsley Council |
| Safeguarding Officer | South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue |
| Senior Nurse | NHS England |
| Team Manager | South Yorkshire Community Rehabilitation Company |
| Chair of Performance Management and Quality Assurance (PMQA) | - |
| Chair of Pathways and Partnerships | - |
| Chair of Learning and Development | - |
| Chair of Safeguarding Adults Forum by Experience (SAFE) | - |
| Parent/carer representative | - |
Board meeting minutes
You can read the minutes from our Safeguarding Adults Board meetings below:
Our safeguarding principles
As a safeguarding board, all of the work we do is underpinned by the following principles. They inform the ways in which we work with adults and help us to develop and improve our local arrangements.
- Empowerment - people being supported and encouraged to make their own decisions and give informed consent.
- Prevention - it's better to take action before harm occurs.
- Proportionality - the least intrusive response appropriate to the risk presented.
- Protection - support and representation for those in greatest need.
- Partnership - local solutions through services working with their communities - communities have a part to play in preventing, detecting and reporting neglect and abuse.
- Accountability - accountability and transparency in safeguarding practice.
The principles apply to all sectors and settings, including care and support services, commissioning, further education colleges, welfare benefits, housing, regulation and provision of health and care services, social work, healthcare, wider council functions and the criminal justice system.
Our promise to adults
If you're an adult who needs protection and support we'll:
- place you at the centre of everything we do
- listen to your views on what we can do to improve your safety
- hold board members to account to make sure we're doing enough to keep you safe
- collect and share information about how well we're keeping you safe and what more we could do
- make sure our workers and volunteers are properly trained
- constantly review and improve our policies and guidance
