Chairing Outcomes Meetings

Aims:

This half day programme focuses on the role of the worker in the Safeguarding Adults framework in terms of chairing outcomes meetings. It considers s 42-47 of the Care Act in particular as well as the guidance regarding Making Safeguarding Personal, empowerment and wellbeing.

Objectives:

This will be achieved by:

• Revisiting the roles in the framework in order to enable workers to clarify what is expected of them should a safeguarding enquiry have been necessary. This reflects on the key sections of the Care Act re: integration, co-operation and collaboration and Safeguarding specifically. This considers the strengths of, but also the challenges in working with partners to agree outcomes.
• Consideration of the role of a outcomes meeting/case review in the Safeguarding Adults framework; where is sits in terms of general risk assessment and risk management processes and the relationship between the conference and care planning.
• Chairing a meeting: good practice for well organised, enabling and participatory meetings in which different perspectives can be respectfully sought and assimilated into the conference decision making processes.
• Consideration of ADASS outcomes (April 2014) and incorporating the wishes and preferences of service users and carers and Making Safeguarding Personal.

Outcomes:

By the end of the session, participants will have increased confidence in their roles and responsibilities in chairing case conferences and in promoting good outcomes for ‘safeguarding’ issues.