58 Ensure a continued focus on the adult at risk and due consideration to other adults or children. Ensure that key decisions are made to an agreed timescale. Ensure that an interim and a final safeguarding plan are put in place to manage or reduce risks, with adequate arrangements for review and monitoring. Ensure that actions leading from Enquiries are proportionate to the level of risk and enable the adult at risk to be in control, unless there are clear recorded reasons why this should not be the case. Ensure independent scrutiny of circumstances leading to the concern and to Safeguarding Adults work. Facilitate learning the lessons from practice and communicate these to the SABs. Director for Adult Social Services (DASS) The DASS has specific responsibilities under statutory guidance issued by the DHSC. Within adult social services, the director has a responsibility to: • Maintain a clear organisational and operational focus on Safeguarding Adults and that statutory responsibilities are met. • Make sure Disclosure & Barring Services standards are met. • The director is also responsible for either chairing, or ensuring the effective chairing of, a local SAB as required by the Care Act 2014. Principal social workers (PSW) The Care Act 2014 statutory guidance (1.31) states that, ‘as the professional lead for social work, principal social workers should have a broad knowledge base on safeguarding and Making Safeguarding Personal and be confident in its application in their own and others’ work. Local authorities should, therefore, ensure that principal social workers lead on ensuring the quality and consistency of social work practice in fulfilling its safeguarding responsibilities. In particular they should have extensive knowledge of the legal and social work response options to specific cases and in general.
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