Gateshead Safeguarding Adults Annual Report 2023/24

Monthly Cross Partnership Meetings

In order to ensure effective cross partnership working between the Safeguarding Adults Board, Gateshead Safeguarding Children's Partnership, Community Safety Partnership and the Domestic Abuse Board the business managers for each partnership meet on a monthly. The meetings follow a formal agenda and are used to share information and updates on reviews, projects, changes in legislation and establish where there needs to be cross partnership working to support areas or work.

Updates

In order to ensure each partnership board receives regular updates business managers is updated updates on current how successful adult safeguarding is at linking with other parts of the system, for example children's safeguarding, domestic violence, community safety

Joint Safeguarding and Community Safety Newsletter

The first of the joint newsletters was circulated in Spring 2024. The newsletter provides a round-up of the news from the safeguarding and community safety boards and partnerships, along with other relevant pieces of recent local and national information. Partners are invited to provide information on safeguarding activity to include in the newsletter to provide a full overview of work and activities across Gateshead.