Agenda

RECOMMENDED that the minutes of the meeting held on 27 September 2023 be approved as a correct record.

To provide an update on the recent work of the Portsmouth Safeguarding Adults Board (PSAB) in 2022-23 and to highlight the learning from three recently published Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs).

To introduce the Annual Report 2022-23 of the Portsmouth Safeguarding Children Partnership (PSCP) on the effectiveness of multi-agency early help and safeguarding arrangements for children inPortsmouth.

Community Safety Partnerships have a statutory requirement to produce an annual strategic assessment (or update) as well as a three-year partnership plan (refreshed annually). This document fulfils the obligation to produce the strategic assessment and informs the refresh of the partnership plan.

RECOMMENDED that the Health and Wellbeing Board use the information in this strategic assessment (and the previous full strategic assessment in 2020/21) to guide evidence-based day to day decision making and resource allocation.

1.    To provide an update to the Health and Wellbeing Board on the tackling poverty priority area of the strategy, building on the evidence base and needs assessment provided by the Public Health Annual Report 2023.

2.    To outline action to date and the next steps to strengthen and develop this area of work, highlighting resource pressures and the role of the Health and Wellbeing Board member organisations and other partners.

There will be a presentation at the meeting.