Legislation – Care Act 2014
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Changes and effects yet to be applied to Schedule 2:
- s. 15(2)–(3B) substituted for s. 15(2)(3) by 2022 c. 31 s. 166(2)
- s. 26(1)–(2A) substituted for s. 26(1)(2) by 2022 c. 31 s. 166(4)
Changes and effects yet to be applied to the whole Act associated Parts and Chapters:
Whole provisions yet to be inserted into this Act (including any effects on those provisions):
- s. 15(2)–(3B) substituted for s. 15(2)(3) by 2022 c. 31 s. 166(2)
- s. 26(1)–(2A) substituted for s. 26(1)(2) by 2022 c. 31 s. 166(4)
SCHEDULE 2Safeguarding Adults Boards
Membership, etc.
1
(1)
The members of an SAB are—
(a)
the local authority which established it,
(b)
F1an integrated care board the whole or part of whose area is in the local authority’s area,
(c)
the chief officer of police for a police area the whole or part of which is in the local authority’s area, and
(d)
such persons, or persons of such description, as may be specified in regulations.
(2)
The membership of an SAB may also include such other persons as the local authority which established it, having consulted the other members listed in sub-paragraph (1), considers appropriate.
(3)
A local authority, having consulted the other members of its SAB, must appoint as the chair a person whom the authority considers to have the required skills and experience.
(4)
Each member of an SAB must appoint a person to represent it on the SAB; and the representative must be a person whom the member considers to have the required skills and experience.
(5)
(6)
The members of an SAB (other than the local authority which established it) must, in acting as such, have regard to such guidance as the Secretary of State may issue.
(7)
Guidance for the local authority on acting as a member of the SAB is to be included in the guidance issued for the purposes of section 78(1).
(8)
An SAB may regulate its own procedure.
Funding and other resources
2
(1)
A member of an SAB listed in paragraph 1(1) may make payments towards expenditure incurred by, or for purposes connected with, the SAB—
(a)
by making the payments directly, or
(b)
by contributing to a fund out of which the payments may be made.
(2)
A member of an SAB listed in paragraph 1(1) may provide staff, goods, services, accommodation or other resources for purposes connected with the SAB.
Strategic plan
3
(1)
An SAB must publish for each financial year a plan (its “strategic plan”) which sets out—
(a)
its strategy for achieving its objective (see section 43), and
(b)
what each member is to do to implement that strategy.
(2)
In preparing its strategic plan, the SAB must—
(a)
consult the Local Healthwatch organisation for its area, and
(b)
involve the community in its area.
(3)
In this paragraph and paragraph 4, “financial year”, in relation to an SAB, includes the period—
(a)
beginning with the day on which the SAB is established, and
(b)
ending with the following 31 March or, if the period ending with that date is 3 months or less, ending with the 31 March following that date.
Annual report
4
(1)
As soon as is feasible after the end of each financial year, an SAB must publish a report on—
(a)
what it has done during that year to achieve its objective,
(b)
what it has done during that year to implement its strategy,
(c)
what each member has done during that year to implement the strategy,
(d)
the findings of the reviews arranged by it under section 44 (safeguarding adults reviews) which have concluded in that year (whether or not they began in that year),
(e)
the reviews arranged by it under that section which are ongoing at the end of that year (whether or not they began in that year),
(f)
what it has done during that year to implement the findings of reviews arranged by it under that section, and
(g)
where it decides during that year not to implement a finding of a review arranged by it under that section, the reasons for its decision.
(2)
The SAB must send a copy of the report to—
(a)
the chief executive and the leader of the local authority which established the SAB,
(b)
the local policing body the whole or part of whose area is in the local authority’s area,
(c)
the Local Healthwatch organisation for the local authority’s area, and
(d)
the chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board for that area.
(3)
“Local policing body” has the meaning given by section 101 of the Police Act 1996.