Strategic plan

The BSAB has the following core functions under the Care Act:

• To develop and publish a strategic plan. Within this plan, we set out our safeguarding adults’ objectives, showing what we need to do to achieve these, and how we plan to do it. Our objectives are informed by continuous monitoring of local, regional and national themes and issues; we have a new system in place to identify particular local risks as they develop. We also use data from our partners and have been improving our quality, effectiveness, assurance and monitoring processes in recent years to support best safeguarding adults’ practice.
• To carry out and publish Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs). These consider how agencies have worked together when a person has died or been at risk of or seriously injured. A review produces recommendations and key learning for the agencies involved to try to prevent these events from happening again.
• To publish an annual report. This public report shows how we have all worked together to deliver the objectives within this strategic plan over each year, using evidence from our business delivery plan, local data, and contributions from a range of partners.

Bolton Safeguarding Adults Board sets out its Strategic Plan every three years.