How we keep people safe

We work with people to understand what being safe means to them and work with our partners to develop the best way to achieve this concentrating on improving people’s lives while protecting their right to live in safety, free from bullying, harassment, abuse, discrimination, avoidable harm and neglect, we make sure we share concerns quickly and appropriately. We have a centralised safeguarding team which acts as a single point of contact and single coordination point for all multiagency safeguarding activity, organisational abuse, advice, support and chairing as well as oversight of enquiries which are carried out by other teams. 

The Gloucestershire Safeguarding Adult Board (GSAB) three-year strategic plan (GSAB, 2022) is well informed by partners and was subject to consultation through Healthwatch. The GSAB holds partners to account through its annual self-assessment process and well-established series of sub groups. There are well-established information sharing protocols in place to ensure that concerns are raised quickly. Gloucestershire has an over-arching information sharing protocol (GISPA, 2016), the Gloucestershire Information Sharing Partnership Agreement (GISPA) and GSAB has its own information sharing policy. 

Our Disabilities Quality Assurance team and peer review model with Inclusion Gloucestershire (local User led organisation) oversees quality of providers. We are developing this best practice model so that we can improve the assurance offer across the whole of the social care market. 

Further information about how we keep people safe in Gloucestershire can be found in appendix 8.