Redbridge safeguarding adults board

Redbridge Safeguarding Adults Board

News:  30 June 2025

New!  7 Minute Briefing – Discriminatory Abuse

As part of taking forward the RSAB priority on discriminatory abuse this year, please see link below to a multi-agency 7 minute briefing on the topic.

Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) – ‘Christopher’

Please view our latest SAR, published on 2 June 2025:

Age UK Befriending Service

Our partners, Age UK Barking, Havering and Redbridge, would like to promote  the Befriending Service available for older people.  Please find more information at this link.  The Referral Form can be downloaded as a Word document from below:

Guidance from 39 Essex Chambers on the Mental Capacity Act

Alex Ruck Keene KC and colleagues from 39 Essex Chambers have published two MCA guidance notes on 12 May 2025.

Mental Capacity Guidance Note: Best Interests

Mental Capacity Guidance Note: Assessment and Recording of Capacity

The purpose of this document is to provide for social workers and those working in front-line clinical settings an overview of the law and principles relating to the assessment of capacity. Its focus is on

(a) how to apply the MCA 2005 principles when assessing capacity; and

(b) how to record your assessment, primarily in the context of health and welfare decisions.

RSAB Strategic Plan and Priority Actions

The SAB have now agreed a new three-year  Strategic Plan for 2025 – 2028 and priorities for 2025 – 2026.

RSAB Thematic Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) – Self-Neglect

To view the latest Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR), which is on the theme of self-neglect and based on two recent cases (‘Deborah’ and ‘David’), please click on the link below:

Fire Prevention and Safeguarding Toolkit

Sutton Local Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP) and Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) have kindly allowed ‘open access’ for all to their Fire Prevention and Safeguarding Toolkit.  Please see link below:

RSAB Safeguarding Adults Awareness Poster

As part of raising awareness during Safeguarding Adults Week 2024, please download and disseminate the poster below:

London Safeguarding Voices

The London Safeguarding Voices Group are looking for more service users to join them to help influence future developments.  Please see information on the flyer below.