Safeguarding in partnership in Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has put partnership working at the heart of safeguarding vulnerable adults.


The council works closely with Staffordshire County Council on the new Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults in Staffordshire and Stoke Executive and Operational Boards, and with all of the board’s six sub groups.


The council also:

• holds regular workshops with the police to discuss cases of vulnerable adults and develop safeguarding arrangements

• holds ‘serious fire’ debrief meetings to consider lessons learned from cases where vulnerable adults have been involved in house fires

• has reciprocal arrangements for serious case reviews to ensure impartiality and professionalism

• looks at discharges to residential and nursing care of individuals and develops improvements to the process in partnership meetings with Stoke PCT and the Hospital Trust.