The Luton Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB) is a partnership of statutory and non-statutory partners working together to safeguard adults at risk of abuse or neglect, in accordance with the Section 6 (7) of the Care Act 2014.
Under this Act, Luton Council has the statutory duty to establish and maintain the board and all partner organisations have legal obligation to co-operate with one another at both strategic and operational levels to address safeguarding concerns within Luton.
We hope that you will find these pages helpful in understanding the work of the Luton Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB) and its partners.
This site provides information on:
- What adult safeguarding is
- What might cause an adult to be harmed or abused; and what you can do if you think that is the case,
- The role of the Safeguarding Adult Board and the work it does
- Information for professionals who support adults
- Links to the Pan Bedfordshire Multi-agency Procedures for all practitioners working with adults
- A video on how to use this website and the Pan Bedfordshire Multi-agency Procedures which can be found here:
About LSAB
The Luton Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB) is a partnership of statutory and non-statutory partners working together to safeguard adults at risk of abuse or neglect, in accordance with the Section 6 (7) of the Care Act 2014.
Under this Act, Luton Council has the statutory duty to establish and maintain the board and all partner organisations have legal obligation to co-operate with one another at both strategic and operational levels to address safeguarding concerns within Luton.
Vision
Board’s Vision – sets out the overall vision of the Board and the outcomes it wants to achieve for the citizens of Luton.
In order to ensure that the fulfilment of its vision, the Safeguarding Adults Board is working with local communities to prevent abuse, identify, report and end any abuse that is occurring and support people who have suffered abuse, both to recover and to regain trust in those around them.
Click here to view the current LSAB Strategic Business Plan 2024-26 which sets out the LSAB Strategic Vision and Priorities.
Subgroups
The board’s mission is reflected in 7 strategically identified work streams, delivered through the operations of its subgroups – this is to ensure that the business of the board is effectively managed and progressed, to ensure that partner agencies are fulfilling their statutory obligations in accordance with the Care Act 2014.
The LSAB delegates power to its subgroups to carry out work related to the Boards business plan; undertake consultation as appropriate; make decisions on work related to the Board where authority has been specifically delegated by the Board; investigate a particular issue; publish material on behalf of the Board; prepare a response to consultation matters on behalf of the Board, discharge any functions delegated to it from the Board.
LSAB Priorities
The Board is led by an independent Chair who is responsible for the overall management of Board work. Led by the Chair, the Board identifies an annual set of priorities that determine the LSAB work plan for the year. The Board operates on financial year April – March.
Key priorities for 2023/2024
OBJECTIVES:
The LSAB should support and / or seek assurance
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- Organisations and Board compliance on the legal duties under the Care Act through an informed understanding of safeguarding arrangements and performance in single agencies and an authoritative oversight of the quality of front-line multi-agency practice.
- Support operational practice through the provision of relevant multi-agency policy or practice guidance.
- Ensure learning from audits, significant Incidents and Safeguarding Adult Reviews is identified and is used to develop practice and service provision.
- Ensure the provision of high quality multi-agency safeguarding training and evaluate the impact on practice of such training
KEY THEMES/PRIORITIES:
We have identified four priority areas for us to focus our collective efforts over the next two years, following the principle that we should concentrate our capacity on a small number of topics, in order to have significant impact, and focus our resources. Based on our analysis of the situation across Luton we have identified the following priority areas:
- Self-Neglect, Neglect
- Domestic Abuse
- Modern Slavery and Sexual Exploitation
- Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health
We have also identified the following Golden Threads that will flow through all our work:
- Cultural Competence
- Cybercrime
- Implementing learning from SARs and relevant CSPR’s
- Legal Literacy
- Making Safeguarding Personal and responding to personal lived experiences
- Mental Capacity Act
- Whole family approaches
Safeguarding Adults Reviews
The Care Act says that Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) must be carried out when someone who needs care and support dies or suffers serious harm because of neglect or abuse and there is a concern that the agencies could have done more to keep them safe.
The review should help to identify what could be done differently to try and prevent the same thing happening again to someone else. The reviews are reported on in the LSAB Annual Report in the year they are published.
SARS published from April 2024 - March 2025
Thematic SAR Self-Neglect: In October 2022 the LSAB commissioned this Thematic Safeguarding Adults Review to consider the circumstances and learning for agencies resulting from the death of adults Adult I and Adult J both of whom had significant issues with self-neglect. The review has been published and can be found here: Final LSAB Thematic SAR Self-Neglect alongside an Executive Summary Thematic SAR Self Neglect. Please also see our seven minute briefings below and the revised Self-neglect and hoarding policy
Family T: In December 2022, Luton Safeguarding Children Partnership and the Luton Safeguarding Adults Board commissioned an Integrated Child Safeguarding Practice Review and Safeguarding Adults Review to consider the serious harm experienced by the family members through adult self-neglect and child neglect. The review has been published and can be found here: LSCP/LSAB Integrated Safeguarding Review Family T.
SARS published 2023-24
'ANNA': In December 2022, Luton Safeguarding Adults Board and Community Safeguarding Partnership commissioned a joint Domestic Homicide and Safeguarding Adult Reviewfollowing the death of Anna, a white British woman, aged 35 with care and support needs who took her own life after experiencing domestc abuse. The review has been published and can be found here: ANNA SAR DHR August 2023
Adult C: In April 2022, Luton Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB) commissioned a Safeguarding Adults Review to examine the case of Adult C, a 41-year-old woman with complex physical, psychological, and social needs. The review has been published in August 2023 and can be found here: Executive Summary Adult C Safeguarding Adult Review Final November 2023
SARs published 2022-23 can be found below:
SARs published before April 2022 can be found below:
LSAB Annual Reports
The LSAB publishes an annual report setting out the work it has undertaken. The Care Act 2014 requires each SAB to publish an annual report.
As soon as it is feasible after the end of each financial year, a SAB must publish a report on:
- what it has done during that year to achieve its objective,
- what it has done during that year to implement its strategy,
- what each member has done during that year to implement the strategy,
- 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),
- 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),
- what it has done during that year to implement the findings of reviews arranged by it under that section, and
- 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.
LSAB Annual Report 2023-24
LSAB Annual Report 2023-24 Appendix A Data
LSAB Annual Report 2023-24 Appendix B PSR
LSAB Annual Report 2023-24 Appendix C SPB
LSAB Annual Report 2022-23
Appendix 1 Summary of partnership achievements 2022-23
2021-22 Annual Report
2019-21 Annual Report
2018-19 Annual Report
2016-17 Annual Report
2015-16 Annual Report
2014-15 Annual Report
7 Minute Briefings
Guidance and Tools
The Luton Safeguarding Adults Board is pleased to launch the local practice guidance The Luton framework for shared understanding about safeguarding concerns Shared Understanding Safeguarding Concerns
This practice guidance seeks to support practitioners, partners, and providers, to report and respond to concerns at the appropriate level and to have a consistency of approach across agencies. This guidance is not a substitute for professional judgement but should be used to assist decision making and to support professional judgement.
The guidance should be used to:
- Help determine a consistent approach to identifying what concerns may require a response under the
safeguarding process
- Support decision making when alternative processes should be used
- Highlight and link to other resources available to practitioners including the Pan Bedfordshire Safeguarding Adults and Procedures these can be found at https://panbedfordshiresabs.trixonline.co.uk/
Carers
The LSAB is alert to the need to promote positive working relationships with carers and adult services and is pleased to be able to promote a link to a range of guidance in an easy read format on a variety of topics linked to caring responsibilities. Further information including a carer's handbook can be found here: https://carerscentral.org.uk/luton-carers-handbook/
Publication Documents
How to Get in Touch
Are you worried about someone? Please see:
Safeguarding Adults
Tel: 01582 547730
Email: adultsafeguarding@luton.gov.uk
To contact us about the work of the Luton Safeguarding Adults Board email us: lutonsafeguardingadultsboard@luton.gov.uk