Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendation.

The Cabinet Member for Social Services provided an update on Adult Safeguarding Performance and revised structures.

The adult safeguarding process in Wales was the national system which was in place to protect all vulnerable adult client groups from abuse and to support them to seek treatment and redress in the event that they had been abused.

The Safeguarding Team had undergone significant change in the past year and would continue to evolve as it responded to the forthcoming Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Bill.  The Bill intended to establish a new legal definition of “adults at risk” and of “harm” to replace the terms “vulnerable adult” and “abuse”.  Alongside this there was a new duty to investigate which would increase workload.

RESOLVED:

That the report be noted.