About ERSAB

Board strategy
ERSAB meetings
ERSAB partners
Structure and sub-groups

Our vision

Our vision is for the East Riding of Yorkshire to be a place where adults at risk of harm are able to live an independent life free from harm where:

abuse is not tolerated
everyone works together to prevent abuse
services respond effectively when abuse is suspected or happens.

Three Shared Goals

Abuse is not tolerated within the community and signs and symptoms of abuse is understood, helping to prevent it from happening in the first place.
Organisations work individually, in partnership and collectively to maintain high standards of safeguarding that keep adults at risk of harm, safe.
Services are equipped to respond effectively and quickly if abuse is suspected or happens with a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Our priorities

The Safeguarding Adults Board is set up to help everyone to work together in the most effective way possible. The Board does this by setting out procedures and plans based on an overall strategy. Our 3-year strategy sets out our three shared goals, six key Principles, that is, Empowerment; Prevention; Proportionality; Protection; Partnership and Accountability and six objectives within which to achieve these.

View the ERSAB Strategy 2022-2025 (pdf 4.2mb)

Our strategy

The Safeguarding Adults Board is set up to help everyone to work together in the most effective way possible. The Board does this by setting out procedures and plans based on an overall strategy. Our three year strategy sets out our aims and objectives and a framework within which to achieve them.

Strategic Objectives 2022 - 2025

Ensure adults who do not have a voice themselves are represented and have appropriate support and the means to express their views.
Develop and deliver training, advice and information for health and social care staff, volunteers and the public on how to help identify and prevent abuse.
Support adults at risk of harm to make informed decisions about their situation and where abuse is suspected or occurred ensure risks are managed well by all partners.
Demonstrate assurance that emerging adult safeguarding themes such as Modern Slavery and County Lines are responded to and fully addressed.
Work together to make sure adult safeguarding standards are consistent across organisation to keep adults safe and minimise risk of harm.
Demonstrate assurance that outcomes from any learning (including Safeguarding Adults and Domestic Homicide Reviews) improves safeguarding effectiveness in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

View the ERSAB Strategy 2022-2025
View the ERSAB Strategy Summary 2022-2025
View the ERSAB Easy Read Strategy 2022-2025

Annual Reports

Information Sharing Protocol

Organisations often need to share information. This ensures that their services benefit local people and meet their needs. But they need to make sure they share only the information that is necessary. They must also protect people’s privacy.

The Information protocol is made up of two tiers:

Tier 1

Tier 1 protocol is a general information sharing protocol which is Humber wide in collaboration with partners in the Humber region. This is called the Humber Information Sharing Charter available to download below:

Download the Humber Information Sharing Charter v10 (pdf 183kb)

Tier 2

Tier 2 protocol is made of two separate protocols and these are in place when there is the sharing of more specific information between ERSAB partners.

The two separate Tier 2 protocols are for the Safeguarding Adults Review sub-group and the Learning, Audit and Improvement sub-group which share personal and sensitive information between agencies in these groups.

ERSAB Safeguarding Adults Review Group Tier 2 Information Sharing Agreement (pdf 264kb)

Download the Learning Audit & Improvement sub group Tier 2 Info Sharing Agreement (pdf 233kb)

ERSAB meetings

East Riding Safeguarding Adults Board is a multi-agency organisation responsible for ensuring the protection and safety of adults at risk of harm in the East Riding.

The Board is led by an independent chair and made up of representatives from a number of organisations including the local authority, police, health, care and voluntary sectors and is also responsible for holding partners to account through scrutiny and governance.

The Board will meet quarterly and members will attend wherever possible and will inform the chair if they are unable to attend. A nominated deputy may attend on an infrequent basis.

Organisational commitment to attendance is crucial and if this function is delegated within organisations, the delegated member must have the ability to make decisions on behalf of the organisation they represent.

The Board will oversee the following:

policy and procedures
quality and performance
best practice and lessons learned
communication
training
users and carers.