About the Safeguarding Partnership
Page updated October 2024
In Slough, the Slough Safeguarding Adults Board (SSAB) and the Local Safeguarding Children partnerships statutory duties are delivered through safeguarding partnership arrangements.
Safeguarding means protecting an adult’s right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect. We work together to keep people in Slough safe and promote their well-being, whilst having regard to their wishes, feelings and beliefs in deciding any action.
Safeguarding duties apply to an adult who:
- Has needs for care and support (whether or not the local authority is meeting any of those needs); and
- Is experiencing, or is at risk of, abuse or neglect; and
- As a result of those care and support needs, is unable to protect themselves from either abuse and neglect, or the risk of abuse and neglect.
The purpose of the Slough Safeguarding Partnership is to safeguard adults with care and support needs by:
- Assuring itself that local safeguarding arrangements are in place as defined by the Care Act 2014 and statutory guidance;
- Assuring itself that safeguarding practice is person-centred and outcome-focused;
- Working collaboratively to prevent abuse and neglect where possible;
- Ensuring agencies and individuals give timely and proportionate responses when abuse or neglect have occurred;
- Assuring itself that safeguarding practice is continuously improving and enhancing the quality of life of adults in its area.
The partnership has an independent scrutineer David Peplow , who provides an independent perspective, challenge and support and it also has sub-groups to deliver specific aspects of the work. Click on the link below to see all our groups and sub-groups.
Slough Safeguarding Partnership Structure
The Safeguarding Partnership Strategic Priorities have been agreed.
Further details on these priorities is available in the Safeguarding Partnership Strategic Plan 2024-2027
Working Together; Keeping People Safe in Slough
New Statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 has been published December 15th 2023
Below key documents;
The guidance document Working Together to Safeguard children 2023
Working Together 2023 summary_of_changes
Working Together 2023 Cross Ministerial letter
Our current partnership arrangements.
Our partnership arrangements align our duties under the Care Act 2014 , the Children Act 2004 and the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
The terms of reference of the executive group is on the link below.
Terms of reference of executive group
The local partnership arrangements are described below:
Safe in Slough Partnership arrangements
We have several groups organised to deliver our priorities. Click on the link below for our structure chart;
Structure Chart
We collaborate with safeguarding partnerships across Berkshire around;
- Policy and procedures; carried out by the Pan Berkshire policy and procedures group
- The Pan Berkshire child exploitation forum
- The Pan Berkshire Section 11 Panel (Monitoring compliance of individual agencies to Section 11 of the Children Act 2004)
In June 2023 we began revising how we monitor the effectiveness of partnership working and agreed on This paper.
We are currently revising this process with an update expected in the summer of 2025.
Who We are: Slough Safeguarding Partners
The partnership is made up of the following agencies:
- Slough Children First including Exploitation and Youth Justice Team
- Thames Valley Police
- Schools and colleges
- Frimley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
- Solution 4 Health (Public Health Nursing)
- Frimley Health Foundation Trust
- Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
- South Central Ambulance Services
- National Probation Service
- Health Watch
Slough Borough Council is represented as follows:
- Adult Social Care
- Housing
- Early Help and Early Years
- Young People Service
- Community safety team
- Drug and alcohol commissioning service
Contact the Safeguarding Partnership Team
For specific enquiries please see below.
Contact Information
E-mail the business unit on
safeguardingboards@slough.gov.uk