Prevention and Engagement subgroup
Terms of Reference
Purpose
The sub-group will identify with whom and how the SSASPB will engage and communicate. It will also identify how the work of the Board contributes to the prevention of adult abuse and neglect in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire.
Remit
The sub group is a formally constituted arm of the SSASPB. It fulfils the following list of responsibilities and will:
- Produce a communication plan which will drive engagement activity
- Produce a prevention strategy in 2021/22
- Support the SSASPB Strategic Priorities by arranging learning events
- Receive recommendations from other sub-groups to arrange events to improve practice or raise awareness of specific elements of adult safeguarding
- Submit a progress update to the Executive sub-group which meets before the quarterly Board meetings.
- Prepare a report for the relevant Annual Report which outlines an overview of the work undertaken by the sub-group during the reporting period.
Membership and Accountability
The sub group will;
- Be comprised of named representatives of key partner agencies of the Board and those members having sufficient knowledge of interagency working and ways of measuring performance to enable them to contribute fully to the remit of the Sub-Group.
- Be extended to other organisations as necessary to deliver the business plan.
- Be chaired by a member or officer of the Board; there will also be a vice Chair. The Chair will be a member of the Executive sub-group and will attend Executive sub-group meetings. The vice Chair will act for the Chair in their absence.
- Meet a minimum of four times a year, this will increase as and when required.
- Be accountable to the Executive sub-group which is attended by the Prevention and Engagement Chair and vice Chair.
- Be attended by the Board Manager and the Administrator to the Board.
Principles
The sub-group will retain a focus on adults with needs for care and support as defined by the Care Act 2014 to its work and have a regard for to racial diversity, language, culture, sexual identity, age and gender in its approach to all its performance monitoring activities
Approved February 2022