1. Birmingham Safeguarding Adults Board Partnership Event: Adult Safeguarding under the Care Act, and its interface with Domestic Abuse Tuesday 10th November, 2015 9.00- 1.30pm VENUE: Tally Ho-Lord Knight Suite Pershore Road, Edgbaston Birmingham B5 7RN

2. Board’s Model and Vision Cherry Dale: Vice Chair - BSAB

3. Changing Cultures: working differently Listening and responding to the voices of citizens. Promoting Safer Communities and early help Safeguarding in everyday lives and everyday business Being public facing and accountable, not inward looking Working in genuine partnership, in a far broader coalition than we have to date

4. What does 'Partnership' mean? Using your knowledge, skills and understanding of your client group: you are the experts with the people you work with. A recognition that one size does not fit all: we encourage working flexibly around the application of safeguarding principles in different settings. … because managing risk, supporting user choice, taking action if you have a concern is what you all do already As a Board we want to support and empower you as organisations to do that, flexibly. We want to promote and support defensible decision making.

5. The Board's role Is to support, listen and steer We will not tell you how to 'do safeguarding'..... unless something is clearly not right. We are expected to provide assurance of how we are working in partnership in the city on safeguarding. We will pull together and report on a system wide picture of challenges and activity. BUT: The success or failure of safeguarding in Birmingham is down to YOU: we cannot do this without you as active partners. Safeguarding is not something any of us can hand-off to others Safeguarding IS everybody's business It does require a commitment We all have a statutory duty to co-operate in delivering this vision.

6. Five Strategic Priorities 1.Safeguarding is fully reflective of the needs and priorities of people of Birmingham 2.BSAB is compliant with the Care Act 2014 3.The city has effective preventative strategies across agencies…….. 4.Agencies work together to ensure all citizens receive a personalised response…. 5.A model of assurance that measure system wide safeguarding arrangements

7. The Memorandum Of Understanding Key commitments: To ensure the voice, opinions and experiences of the citizens of Birmingham and the people who use our services shape our safeguarding work, policies and responses. To make sure safeguarding is considered and planned for in every decision and action you take. To provide senior level organisational representation at 4 events facilitated by BSAB each year. To contribute to the delivery of BSAB work streams To make and receive professional challenge across partner agencies Embrace the MSP agenda and the 6 safeguarding principles Empowerment Prevention Protection Partnership Accountability Proportionality

8. Thank you