The Care and Statutory Guidance (paragraph 14.155) stated that at the end of each financial year, the SAB must publish an annual report that must clearly state what both the SAB and its members have done to carry out and deliver the objectives and other content of its strategic plan.
Please see below for the responses provided by single agencies on how they continue to meet the key strategic priorities, evidencing the good work and practice that is being driven forward to make Salford a safer place.
Working to Prevent abuse or neglect
• Northern Care Alliance Adult Social Care (statutory partner)
Salford adult social care and the Council's Health Improvement team work in partnership to provide early support for people who are at risk of social isolation and self-neglect.
The Procurement and Market Management team have regular contacts with support providers to share examples of good practice to help them improve care standards and reduce the risk of abuse and neglect.
Salford adult social care staff take part in the Board's training programme and also support Learning Events following a Safeguarding Adults Review.
• Greater Manchester Police (GMP) (statutory partner)
Over the last 12 months Salford District have set up and now embedded MATAC (Multi Agency Tasking and Coordination) which works with partners to identify serial perpetrators of domestic abuse and then implements actions of disruption and enforcement to reduce offending.
• NHS Greater Manchester (Salford Locality) (statutory partner)
As part of the NHS Greater Manchester System Learning and Improvement delivery group, a platform for collating data and analytics from statutory reviews has been developed during 2024-25. This has enabled the group to consider recurrent learning which has influenced the development of monthly development sessions for GP Safeguarding Leads across Greater Manchester, which provides additional knowledge around safeguarding, directly influenced from safeguarding reviews.
Safeguarding arrangements for NHS Commissioned providers, including Nursing Homes, Primary Care, Small and Acute providers, have been monitored by the locality safeguarding team, via annual safeguarding assurance processes.
• Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH)
Introduction of Safeguarding Champions across localities/services.
Introduction of Quality Visits which include Central Safeguarding Team representation.
Bitesize learning sessions and practice briefings developed in relation to key themes/learning.
Continued strengthening of the safeguarding training offer across the Trust footprint.
• Salford City Council – Directorate - People and Communities
Staff in Adult Services have accessed training.
In our Housing Transformation programme a group has been working together to identify any gaps in safeguarding across the services and within the staff development.
• Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS)
During a Home Fire Safety Assessment (HFSA) any Safeguarding issues that are witnessed will result in referrals to Salford Council as well as referred to Lead Designated Safeguarding Officer (DSO)
Mandatory training is undertaken by all staff to determine Safeguarding issues and the training must be completed and passed with a mark of 80% plus
Staff are sent regular Safeguarding updates to familiarise themselves with Safeguarding issues
• Salford and Trafford Greater Manchester Probation Service
The following policies are in place:
• Managing Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse
• Providing support to victims of domestic abuse (for Domestic Abuse Support Officer (DAS)) and Victim Liaison officer (VLO))
• Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC)
• Personality Disorder Pathway
• MASH (Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub) and probation responsibilities
• Community Safety Partnership/ Reducing reoffending
• Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA)
• Veterans
• Safeguarding Adult Boards – Roles and Responsibilities
• Youth Offending Services – National Partnership Framework
• Faith Based Communities
• Family Safeguarding
• Child Safeguarding
• Prevent
• Managing those who sexually offend
• And many more
Each member of staff has their own learning plan on the national system which highlights mandatory learning (prevent, Domestic Abuse, Child safeguarding and adult safeguarding are mandatory for all staff regardless of role or grade) and role specific training. Without completing these, the staff member is not able to continue with pay progression.
Staff must complete the Civil Service Induction which is a 2-day course and highlights the expectations of working within the civil service. Further to this, all staff receive a regional induction where they will receive the key policy and be allocated on to training.
The national team (EPSIG – Effective Practice Service Improvement Group) review all national legislation and policy and disseminate to staff. All senior leaders have lead roles and ensure that this is disseminated into local policy and practice and fits with local priorities.
Development of Domestic Abuse and Safeguarding Information Team which channels all domestic abuse and child safeguarding checks through one team and will develop to a SPOC (Single Point of Contact) linked to safeguarding.
Co-location with Threat To Life (TTL) when required.
Co-chair and administrate MAPPA at levels 2 and 3.
Greater Manchester Probation has a clear complaints policy in place which is advertised to all service users. This is notified in both offices and on the website. It is also highlighted at induction.
All policies are held on the national database that all staff can access and the GM database (Hive) that all GM staff members can access. Both sites are easy to navigate.
All Serous Further Offences (SFO) learning is held by a strategic lead in GM and feeds into the central team. Learning is then disseminated into practice as required. SFOs are transparent to the victims as they have the option of meeting with the Head of PDU (Probation Delivery Unit) to go through the transparent review.
Greater Manchester Police have access to a solicitor in the region and Government Legal Department as required.
• Together Housing Group (THG)
Together Housing Group have a mandatory rolling training programme, delivered inhouse. Courses are tailored to roles and levels of responsibility (awareness sessions, in depth session for those with more involved roles). Sessions cover awareness raising about abuse, are clear on expectations of staff to raise concerns, where and how to raise concerns, reference to THG policies and procedures as well as multi agency procedures about raising concerns, as well as covering details on the topics.
Included in the training programme:
e-learning for new starters as part of induction (combined safeguarding adults and children awareness, domestic abuse awareness)
In person sessions - (combined Safeguarding Adults & Safeguarding Children awareness, Safeguarding Adults Level 2 , Safeguarding Children Level 2,
Domestic Abuse Briefing, Domestic Abuse (involved teams)
Bespoke sessions for those teams with a corporate role and are less customer facing (Finance, People Team) however have some level of contact with customers.
- Refresher training is completed 3 yearly and is offered via e-learning.
- Updated policies and procedures are rolled out via the training programme.
- Continuous Professional Development (CPD) - is offered which compliments our mandatory sessions, to support additional understanding, resilience and other associated topics, as part of the wider framework for safeguarding and vulnerability. Which includes learning from statutory reviews, trauma informed awareness and practice.
- Together Housing Group monitor training compliance via Strategic Safeguarding Learning Group.
- Together Housing also have access to a wider multi agency training offer across the geographical area we cover. To encourage use of the MA (mutli agency)training offer to compliment our inhouse training programme we have coordinated an internal training needs analysis with key operational managers to make effective use of the MA training.
• Healthwatch Salford
All staff and volunteers receive safeguarding training. The organisation has separate adults and children's safeguarding policies which are reviewed to ensure they are up to date. Chief Officer circulates all SSAB and SSCP newsletters and SAR invites.
Staff and volunteers have appropriate Disclosing Barring Service (DBS) checks completed via Salford Community and Voluntary Services.
Organisation has designated safeguarding leads familiar with protocol.
Safeguarding is a standing item on the team meeting agenda.
Processes are constantly monitored and reviewed for potential improvement.
• Salford Community and Voluntary Sector (CVS)
We provide information, advice and training to Voluntary, Community & Social Enterprise Organisations in Salford which includes working to prevent abuse or neglect.
Work to Protect adults from abuse or neglect
• Northern Care Alliance (NCA) Adult Social Care - statutory partner
Salford adult social care is the lead agency for Safeguarding adults in Salford. Adult social care staff chair Safeguarding enquiries in compliance with the Care Act.
Staff from Salford adult social care responded to three significant provider concerns in the year under report. Two involved care homes, one with an increasing number of Safeguarding referrals, the other with ongoing concerns about care quality and lack of implementation of previously agreed protection plans. The teams worked with the homes and their owners to improve care quality and establish better oversight and reporting mechanisms.
The third provider concerns issue arose when a home care provider lost its Home Office licence to employ staff recruited from overseas. Alternative providers had to be found for 80+ people in the community. Unison and Growth Company engaged well with the displaced staff and many found alternative roles locally.
• Greater Manchester Police (GMP) - statutory partner
Over the last 12 months we have been working with Safe in Salford on the embedded Independent Domestic Abuse Advisor (IDVA) for joint visits pilot. We have also engaged in MARAC and reinvigorated the MARAC steering group. We have also worked with Safe and Salford to implement a MARAC pre-screen which will be piloted in the next few months. A Domestic Abuse Team was created in Nov 24, which is a specialist team to deal with serious domestic abuse to attempt to obtain positive outcomes to keep victims safe.
• NHS Greater Manchester (Salford Locality) - statutory partner
The Salford place-based team host the locality Continuing Health Care (CHC) team who provide case management for those individuals within the area who are eligible to receive health funded packages of support. Over the course of 2024-25, the safeguarding team have collaborated closely with CHC following any safeguarding concerns about adults in placements. Team members have accessed safeguarding supervision and advice to respond to emerging issues and to ensure safe and effective care is maintained.
• Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH)
- Review and re-launch of the Allegations Against Staff Policy.
- Review and update of Safeguarding policies, procedures and guidance.
- Introduction of a Learning from Reviews Group.
- Quarterly Learning from Reviews Report introduced.
• Salford City Council – Directorate - People and Communities
Housing services have reviewed the working practices in the referral processes to identify people at risk of neglect or abuse.
• Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS)
Any incidents of abuse or neglect are escalated to Lead DSO and a Safeguarding referral is raised
Each safeguarding referral is quality assured
Lead Designated Safeguarding Officer (DSO) will attend Multi Disciplinary Teams professional meetings etc
Lead DSO attends SSAB and sub groups linked to SSAB
Lead officers linked with Safeguarding are key contacts
GMFRS will aim to take part in Safeguarding Adult week each November
• Salford and Trafford Greater Manchester Probation Service
The head of the PDU (Probation Delivery Unity) attends the SSAB, Tackling Domestic Abuse Board (TDAB) and CSP alongside chairing of the Reducing Reoffending Board. The relevant SPO (Senior Probation Officer) SPOCs (Single Point of Contacts) attend subgroups as required including Domestic Abuse (including MARAC), organised crime and suicide prevention.
GMPS (Greater Manchester Probation Service) also holds the administrative lead for MAPPA (Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangmeents) in the region alongside the co-chairing arrangements with GMP (Greater Manchester Police).
Development of Domestic Abuse and Safeguarding Information Team which channels all DA (Domestic Abuse) and child safeguarding checks through one team and will develop to a SPOC linked to safeguarding.
Manage licences and Orders of those who pose harm to others, including a pre release team to plan for safer release from custody.
Risk Management and Sentence plans reflect a focus on managing risk of serious harm and protecting victims and communities and preventing further offending behaviour.
Home visits policy enables officers to enter home addresses of those we supervise.
Structured interventions and accredited programmes designed to reduce risk.
• Together Housing Group
Safeguarding Policy (covering both adults and children) are in place with associated procedures which are updated three yearly, or earlier if significant updates are required before the routine renewal date e.g. national or regional policy changes. Our policies and procedures are aligned to multiagency procedures in the key local authority areas in which we operate, including Calderdale. In addition, Together Housing has separate domestic abuse policies – one for customers (and associated procedures and one for employees (supported by a toolkit for staff and additional guidance for managers). Safeguarding also cross-references with other key policies including:
- Cause for concern procedures
- Code of Conduct including professional boundaries guidance
- Anti-social behaviour
- Anti-fraud
- Disciplinary
- Recruitment
- Whistle-blowing
- Data protection (including GDPR)
Policies and procedures cover staff, volunteers and others working for and with Together Housing including contractors, Board members and third party service providers.
When policies and procedures are updated, the changes are rolled out and included via the annual training programme and internal communication channels.
Policies and procedures are stored and accessible to staff via central file now held in Microsoft teams. This is explained within induction and refresher training, including when policies are updated. Where we have volunteers and small local businesses who work with us e.g. in our supported housing schemes such as hairdressers, caterers, they are also briefed on expectations and key procedures to follow as part of their induction and refresher training. Contractors (such as repairs, cleaners) are also expected to follow Together Housing Group cause for concerns procedures if they don't have their own in place. This information is also included in procurement packs and contract monitoring meetings also reference handling of cause for concerns.
• Healthwatch Salford
All staff and volunteers receive safeguarding training. The organisation has separate adults and children's safeguarding policies which are reviewed to ensure they are up to date. Chief Officer circulates all SSAB and SSCP newsletters and SAR invites.
Staff and volunteers have appropriate DBS checks completed via Salford Community and Voluntary Sector.
Organisation has designated safeguarding leads familiar with protocol.
Safeguarding is a standing item on the team meeting agenda.
Processes are constantly monitored and reviewed for potential improvement.
• Salford and Trafford Greater Manchester Probation Service
We provide information, advice and training to Voluntary, Community & Social Enterprise Organisations in Salford which includes working to prevent abuse or neglect.
Voice of the adult (and their carers)
• Northern Care Alliance (NCA) Adult Social Care - statutory partner
The Board's ‘Voice of the Adult’ report has shown the need for better communication with residents and their families. The reports have been shared with Salford adult social care staff and discussed at the Safeguarding leads’ network established by the Principal Social Worker. In the year ahead the Principal Social Worker will update guidance for staff on how to support the adult at risk to take part in the Safeguarding process.
• Greater Manchester Police (GMP) - statutory partner
Training and communication has been reiterated to front line officers to ensure that the voice of the adults and carers is captured on the DAB or CAP record
• NHS Greater Manchester (Salford Locality) - statutory partner
Learning from patient experience is integral and key meetings that the locality safeguarding team chair, start with a patient story. This serves as an improvement tool to improve quality of health and care services.
An example of this being used effectively relates to the journey and experience of a victim of honour-based abuse. This resulted in partners across the SSAB and health economy being asked to review workplace policies on domestic abuse, to assure themselves they were robust and considered harmful practices.
At an operational level, the quality and safety nursing team monitor concerns and experiences of Salford citizens via Continuing Health Care (CHC) Nursing Reviews, Quality and Safeguarding assurance visits to care homes and to other NHS establishments where adults are placed.
• Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH)
- Co-produced and co-delivered a 'Lets Talk About Domestic Abuse' with an adult with lived experience.
- Patient Advisory and Liaison Service established.
- New Freedom to Speak Up Guardians and Champions identified.
- Local service-user forums and Trust wide Service User Voice Forum.
- New Carers Council (Carer Voice Forum)
- 'You Said…We Did...in response to patient and carer feedback.
• Salford City Council – Directorate - People and Communities
Through the transformation programme staff have been testing 'residents stories' as a way to inform service planning, this work will be embedded in the outcomes framework for the council's community services.
• Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service
During both HFSAs (Home Fire Safety Assessments) and when making Safeguarding referrals all staff try and undertake the concept of "Making Safeguarding Personal" for adults.
GMFRS Safeguarding Policy and Procedure incorporates an organisational statement re MSP
Staff will listen and ask in relation to the views of the service user or carer
Staff have undertaken training on MSP
• Salford and Trafford Greater Manchester Probation Service
Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Board chaired by a senior leader. An information pack is produced on a monthly basis.
All policy and practice decisions have an equality impact assessment.
Engaging People on Probation - (EPOP) is a lived experience led service which listens to those we work with to effect change for the better. We hold a forum every quarter with reps and they feed back to practitioners by invites to team meetings.
We have a People on Probation Survey twice a year and the results are fed into the local management meetings to develop a plan to effect change.
Interpreters are offered to all where English is not their first language.
Sentence plans reflect a focus on managing risk of serious harm and protecting victims and communities and preventing further offending behaviour.
An induction is provided to all cases to understand their needs and look at any reasonable adjustments required.
An embedded and easily accessible complaints procedure is in place.
• Salford and Trafford Greater Manchester Probation Service
At the very heart of our safeguarding procedures is to have a person- centred approach and the absolute importance of listening, hearing and understanding and responding appropriately, including recognising the diverse and individual needs of customers and members of their household, including vulnerabilities and any protected characteristics. Our policies also explicitly reference the importance of recognising customers who are facing multiple disadvantage as part of our safeguarding responses, learning from “Burnt Bridges” and as part of our commitment to trauma-informed practice. Further Trauma Informed training is to be included in our programme 25/26.
Our Safeguarding Adult training covers the 6 safeguarding principles and how these apply to our organisation, includes MSP (Making Safeguarding Personal) and the importance of taking a person centred approach - including understanding what outcomes the adult wants from the process.
• Healthwatch Salford
The role of Healthwatch is focused around listening to Salford people and their experiences and sharing this feedback with the system - this may lead to more focused project work should the need arise.
We attend strategic meetings with the purpose of advocating for the people of Salford.
• Salford Community and Voluntary Sector (CVS)
We promote to VCSE (Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise) organisations the importance of the Voice of the adult and their carer.
Communication and Engagement
• Northern Care Alliance (NCA) Adult Social Care - statutory partner
Adult social care collaborates with children’s social care to promote a ‘Think Family’ approach to safeguarding. The Principal Social Worker in adult social care has contributed to a number of children’s learning events and has completed a section 11 audit of adult social care practice for the Salford Children’s Safeguarding Partnership.
• Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH)
- Introduction of a central safeguarding duty system/single point of entry for staff and external agencies.
- Refresh of our safeguarding intranet pages for staff - improved visibility and quality of information.
- Safeguarding posters developed 'Being Safe is Your Right: No-one should have to live in fear of abuse or neglect'.
• NHS Greater Manchester (Salford Locality) - statutory partner
The NHS Greater Manchester System Learning and Improvement Delivery Group collaborates with wider teams to ensure safeguarding weeks and days of action are shared across the organisation and publicly, through social media campaigns.
In addition, the Delivery Group contributes to NHS GM’s safeguarding annual report which includes high level detail of statutory review activity, recurrent themes, and organisational responses to safeguarding.
• Salford City Council – Directorate - People and Communities
A training programme on Relational Practices and Compassionate Approaches has been developed in the Council to ensure quality communications and engagement with residents. This training is being delivered to front facing services.
• Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service
All staff undertake regular Safeguarding training
A flowchart for Safeguarding is displayed in all fire stations in Salford
Regular informal "tea and toast" sessions are held with all Salford fire crews to communicate safeguarding trends and engage with staff
During Safeguarding Adult awareness week all staff each day will get safeguarding alerts and information relating to Safeguarding
• Salford and Trafford Greater Manchester Probation Service
Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Board chaired by a senior leader. An information pack is produced on a monthly basis.
All policy and practice decisions have an equality impact assessment.
Engaging People on Probation - (EPOP) is a lived experience led service which listens to those we work with to effect change for the better. We hold a forum every quarter with representatives and they feed back to practitioners by invites to team meetings.
We have a People on Probation Survey twice a year and the results are fed into the local management meetings to develop a plan to effect change.
Interpreters are offered to all where English is not their first language.
Sentence plans reflect a focus on managing risk of serious harm and protecting victims and communities and preventing further offending behaviour.
An induction is provided to all cases to understand their needs and look at any reasonable adjustments required.
An embedded and easily accessible complaints procedure is in place.
In terms of staff communication - all staff receive a monthly round up where SSAB priorities and comms are shared.
• Together Housing Group
Involvement of customers is at the heart of what we do as an organisation as part of current services or any changes or developments. We have a strong framework for engagement with residents via our Customer Voice Group (CVG) and key sub groups including ASB residents group, culturally diverse group. Likewise we also have well-established staff engagement arrangements including LGBTQ, Equality Diversity and Inclusion.
When we last did our safeguarding and domestic abuse policy updates, we consulted via our CVG and will be doing so again as part of forthcoming update.
We also included customers into the last 16 days of activism campaign, including a video to highlight a customer’s experience of abuse and support from Together Housing Group throughout. From this, we have several lived experience customers who are taking on the role of lived experienced champions to work with us to develop engagement including raising awareness etc.
Together Housing regularly participate in awareness raising events, sharing key messages on themed topics.
We produce a quarterly newsletter for staff to raise awareness on themed topics, share good practice and links resources.
Together Housing Group have a safeguarding toolkit online which customers can access with links on how to get help.
We have a resident accessible communication policy, which recognises the diverse needs of our customers. As part of our commitment to equality and diversity, we aim to ensure our communications for customers are accessible and are available in line with best practice to accommodate the general requirements of groups of customers e.g. Easy Read versions for those with learning disabilities or larger print etc.
• Healthwatch Salford
We achieve our aim of listening to Salford people and their experiences of health and social care by communicating effectively and undertaking regular engagement in a variety of forms, always learning and ensuring we are covering Salford and its diverse communities.
We also provide information and advice through a variety of different channels.
Safeguarding Effectiveness
• Northern Care Alliance (NCA) Adult Social Care - statutory partner
The Safeguarding form and associated workflow on the adult social care database that were introduced in 2023 are now being reviewed. This is to improve the accuracy of data collection and make the forms easier to use.
A need has also been identified for better oversight of Safeguarding referrals that are managed by Greater Manchester Mental Health – Salford. At the time of writing these new processes are about to come on stream and will be discussed in next year’s report.
• Greater Manchester Police (GMP) - statutory partner
Salford district have reimagined the 10am daily meeting, with a more detailed look at domestic abuse. The district has also reintroduced weekly governance meetings where domestic abuse is highlighted.
• NHS Greater Manchester (Salford Locality) - statutory partner
The NHS Greater Manchester System Learning and Improvement Delivery Group has developed a Learning and Improvement framework during 2024-25. This will support the organisation to achieve safeguarding effectiveness, by striving for quality improvement and better outcomes through learning, ongoing feedback and analysis.
The NHS Greater Manchester locality safeguarding team operate an annual safeguarding audit calendar and have contributed to national audits set by NHS England to demonstrate the effectiveness of our safeguarding arrangements.
After development of the local Safeguarding Health Collaborative which strengthens the effectiveness of health safeguarding arrangements across the locality through collaboration, an audit has taken place to understand impact and how these arrangements can be improved further.
• Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH)
- Strengthening of the Safeguarding governance and assurance arrangements across the Trust.
- Refreshed reporting schedule from floor to Board.
- Development of a Safeguarding Reviews and Action Plan module on the Trusts Inphase system.
• Salford City Council – Directorate - People and Communities
A review of the safeguarding provision in adult services is currently taking place to ensure the most effective safeguarding processes are in place across the services, this will link into a wider review of the Adult Social Care Safeguarding in the coming year.
• Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service
All Safeguarding referrals are quality assured
Two new Safeguarding Assurance officers are being recruited by September to improve this aspect
All staff routinely refer Safeguarding referrals via the online portal which has been a major shift and much work has been undertaken to achieve this goal
Regular Lead DSO Safeguarding meetings are held monthly with one of the primary aspirations and agenda items to improve
Safeguarding across the organisation
Sample Safeguarding referrals are perused to look at quality of information, use of MSP (Making Safeguarding Personal) etc.
All staff fully support the notion that "Safeguarding is Everyone’s Responsibility"
• Salford and Trafford Greater Manchester Probation Service
All staff are trained in Skills for Effective Engagements & Development (SEEDS) , this is a reflective practice approach to how staff are practicing. Safeguarding is a key agenda item.
Supervision is delivered between 4-8 weeks depending on concerns.
Team meetings are delivered on a monthly basis where safeguarding and public protection are key agenda items.
Touchpoint model reviews offer the practitioner and the line manager an opportunity to review all safeguarding cases on a regular basis.
Failure to complete mandatory safeguarding training will result in a non-progression on the salary scale. This is also true if there are identified issues with practice and the individual is put into performance improvement.
All practitioners face regular audits of their practice.
The outcome of domestic abuse checks is a national focus and subject to regular audits.
Practice and performance measures are well structured and in place. Including a practitioner dashboard that focuses on public protection. There are also regular audits that highlight how well a practitioner is carrying out their role.
Probation have the Greater Manchester Integrated Rehabilitation Services (GMIRS) service at hand which provides intervention for criminogenic needs via contracting our partners. We have a commissioning team who completes this for the region. This commissioning process is fully compliant with safeguarding.
• Together Housing Group
Together Housing have a Strategic Safeguarding Learning Group who meet on a quarterly basis to have strategic oversight of all key aspects of the Group’s safeguarding activities - performance, policy changes, updates on service improvements and updates on learning from statutory and formal multiagency reviews, internal audit and internal management quality assurance findings and associated actions.
There is also a Safeguarding Operational group which reports into the Strategic group, led by the Safeguarding Manager. This comprises operational managers and its key purpose is to consider operational performance, key trends for further improvement, data analysis, training planning and sharing of learning, both positive and areas for improvement.
At the governance level, an annual performance report is provided to Board sub committee (operations) and statutory case reviews and formal enquires are reported to Risk management steering group and where appropriate to Risk management audit committee. Safeguarding is also part of the strategic Risk Register which is annually updated.
It is part of the Safeguarding Service Improvement plan to improve our dataset and dashboard, including to capture better data on equality, diversity and inclusion within the context of safeguarding cases
• Healthwatch Salford
Regularly reviewing process and protocol. Taking onboard recommendations/output from SSAB and SARs.
• Salford Community and Voluntary Sector (CVS)
We provide advice, information, training and support to VCSE (Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise) organisations to support them to ensure that they are Safeguarding adults as part of their work. We also support them to implement the VCSE Safeguarding Standards
Areas of good safeguarding practice
• Northern Care Alliance (NCA) Adult Social Care - statutory partner
Over 80% of adults who are involved in a Safeguarding enquiry led by Salford adult social care report that their desired outcomes are fully or partially met.
• Greater Manchester Police (GMP) - statutory partner
After the District Operating Model was introduced across GMP in Nov 24, the new District Safeguarding Team and the Domestic Abuse Team have been embedded and working well.
• NHS Greater Manchester (Salford Locality) - statutory partner
Annual safeguarding assurance processes completed by the NHS GM Safeguarding team, have included case file audits for primary care, and review of safeguarding policies and procedures for acute and small health providers.
• Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH)
Engagement in multi-agency response to provider concerns.
Development of safeguarding care documentation and safeguarding dashboards.
• Salford City Council – Directorate - People and Communities
All the Adult Services in the Council have named safeguarding champions, these officers support other staff and meet regularly with the Safeguarding Officers to share good practice, seek advice and keep up to date with appropriate guidance
• Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service
Two new staff are being recruited with the primary remit to quality assure all Safeguarding referrals and feedback
New internal recording forms highlight different aspects of abuse so they can captured in the Safeguarding Quarterly Report
• Salford and Trafford Greater Manchester Probation Service
As above but specifically new for this year is the development of the Domestic Abuse and Safeguarding Information Team which channels all DA (Domestic Abuse) and child safeguarding checks through one team and will develop to a SPOC (Single Point of Contact) linked to safeguarding.
• Together Housing Group
Strategic safeguarding learning group - which oversees safeguarding activities across the group.
In house training programme and MA training offered.
Inhouse safeguarding team which offers advice and guidance to staff and managers relating to case management
Quarterly meetings with ops management teams to share key messages, learning and good practice.
Quality Assurance framework, regular in depth review of sample of cases, findings are shared with SSLG and actions agreed relating to areas for improvement.
• Healthwatch Salford
Safeguarding is a standing agenda item for team meetings.
Chief Officer has practical experience of following safeguarding protocol and referrals.
• Salford Community and Voluntary Sector (CVS)
We support VCSE organisations to implement Salford Safeguarding Standards
We have delivered 13 Training courses to 145 participants from VCSE Organisation
