North Wales Safeguarding Board
The Joint North Wales Safeguarding Board will work to the functions and core responsibilities of a Safeguarding Board as set out within the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014:
a) To contribute to ensuring that national policies and procedures are monitored and remain fit for purpose, by engagement with the National Independent Safeguarding Board and other Safeguarding Boards, and to contribute to developing policies and procedures to co-ordinate what is done by the partners and bodies represented on the Board for the purposes of protecting adults and children and preventing abuse, neglect and other forms of harm to adults and children within the area of the Board;
b) To raise awareness throughout the Board’s area of the Board’s objectives to protect and prevent adults and children from becoming at risk of abuse, neglect and other forms of harm, and to provide information about how this might be achieved.
c) To review the efficacy of measures taken by those Safeguarding Board partners and bodies represented on the Board, and by other bodies with safeguarding responsibilities within the area of the Board, either individually or collectively, to implement the objectives of the Board and to make whatever recommendations it sees fit to those bodies in light of such a review.
d) To undertake Single Unified Safeguarding Reviews.
e) To undertake audits, reviews and investigations as are required in pursuance of its objectives; to monitor the extent to which any recommendations made under paragraph (c) or (d) are being or have been met.
f) To review the performance of the Board and its partners and bodies represented on the Board in carrying out its objectives,
g) To disseminate information about best practice and learning arising from reviews under paragraph (d) or (e), to share information with Board members, other Safeguarding Boards, the National Independent Safeguarding Board, and children and adults who are or may be affected by the exercise of a Safeguarding Board’s functions, and to identify, explore and respond to matters arising that affect the fulfilment of the Board’s objectives.
h) To facilitate research into protection from, and prevention of, abuse and neglect of children and adults at risk of harm.
i) To review the training needs of those practitioners working in the area of the Board in order to identify training activities and to provide and to ensure training is provided on an interagency and individual organisational basis to assist in the protection and prevention of abuse and neglect of children and adults at risk of harm in the area of the Board.
j) To co-operate or act jointly with another one or more Boards or other similar bodies in Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, or other jurisdictions, where the Board considers it will assist it to fulfil its objectives.
k) To seek specialist advice or information where the Board considers it relevant to assist it to implement its objectives.
l) To respond to any notification to the Board in relation to any of its functions.
m) To engage in any other activity that facilitates or is conducive to the achievement of its objectives.
