About the North Wales Safeguarding Board

North Wales Safeguarding Children Board

The Board has the overall responsibility for challenging relevant agencies in the area so that:

•There are effective measures in place to PROTECT children

•There is effective inter-agency co-operation planning and delivering protection services and in sharing information

•Anticipating & Identifying where there may be individuals affected and work with service providers to develop earlier identification and preventative services

•Promote effective multi agency support services

•Promote inter agency approaches to working with community groups and organisations where there may be populations at risk of harm

•Using inter-agency training and dissemination of learning and research to help build a more confident and knowledgeable multi agency workforce

Children’s Board

North Wales Safeguarding Adults Board

The objectives of a Safeguarding Adults Board are:

•to protect adults within its area who have needs for care and support (whether or not a local authority is meeting any of those needs) and are experiencing, or are at risk of, abuse or neglect,

•to prevent those adults within its area becoming at risk of abuse or neglect