The Board

Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board works in partnership with organisations across Cumbria to help protect adults with care and support needs from abuse or neglect.

Contact the Board

You can contact the Board by email: csab@cumberland.gov.uk

Please note that the Board does not respond to concerns about adults at risk of abuse or neglect.  If you think adult is at risk please report it directly to the Single Point of Access for your locality: 

Adult Social Care - Keeping Safe (Cumbria County Council)

Adult Social Care-Keeping Safe (Westmorland and Furness Council).

 

Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board works in partnership with organisations across Cumbria to help protect adults with care and support needs from abuse or neglect.

The Board leads adult safeguarding across Cumbria and works with organisations to ensure that they have effective safeguarding policies and procedures in place. It is important to work together in the best way possible to protect adults with care and support needs.

The Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board members guide and handbook provides an introduction to the Board, its responsibilities and the expectations of individual Board Members:

 

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The Board
The Board aims to make sure adults who may be at risk of abuse or neglect and their carers are enabled to:

Live as safely and independently as possible

Make their own decisions

Take control of their own lives.
The three core duties of the Board are to:

Publish an annual strategic plan

Publish an annual report

Review serious safeguarding cases. These are called Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs).

The Board includes representation from:

  • Care Quality Commission (CQC)
  • Cumberland Council - Director of Adult Services
  • Cumberland Council - Quality and Resources
  • Cumbria Constabulary
  • Cumbria Fire and Rescue
  • Cumbria Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Healthwatch
  • His Majesty's Prison Service, Haverigg
  • Independent Chair 
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust
  • Lay member 
  • NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
  • NHS North Cumbria Integrated Care Board
  • North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board
  • North West Ambulance Service
  • North West Probation Service
  • Recovery Steps Cumbria, Humankind
  • University Hospitals Morecambe Bay Trust
  • Westmorland and Furness Council - Director of Adult Services
  • Westmorland and Furness Council - Safeguarding