Nottingham City Safeguarding Adults Board (NCSAB) is the statutory forum for agreeing on how services, agencies, organisations and the community work together to safeguard adults at risk of harm and abuse.

Role of the NCSAB

It is a statutory requirement for local authorities to set up a Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB). The main objective of a SAB is to assure itself that local safeguarding arrangements and partners act to help and protect adults in its area who:

• Has needs for care and support (whether the local authority is meeting any of those needs or not)
• Is experiencing or is at risk of harm, abuse or neglect
• As a result of those with care and support needs, unable to protect themselves from either the risk of, or the experience of abuse or neglect (Care Act 2014, Care and Support Statutory Guidance)

NCSAB welcome any feedback and comments on our plans. Don't hesitate to get in touch with the Board office on the email address below. Please note this email address is not for submitting safeguarding referrals or for contacting the Adult Social Care Safeguarding Team. The Board are not part of Adult Social Care, have no access to Social Care records and do not have involvement in operational cases. To submit a Safeguarding Referral, please click below

• Adult Social Care Safeguarding Referral Form - Nottingham City Council

NCSAB Strategic Plan and Annual Report

The SAB has three core duties:

• It must publish a strategic plan for each financial year that sets how it will meet its primary objective and what the members will do to achieve this
• It must publish an annual report detailing what the SAB has done during the year to achieve its primary objective and implement its strategic plan, and what each member has done to implement the strategy as well as detailing the findings of any safeguarding adults reviews and subsequent action
• It must conduct any safeguarding adults review in accordance with Section 44 of the Care Act

You can download and read current NCSAB reports by clicking links below to download the PDF/Word files.

• NCSAB Annual Report 2022 to 2023 Summary
• NCSAB Annual Report 2022 to 2023
• NCSA Board - Annual Plan 2023-2024
• NCSAB Strategic Plan 2022-2025 (Summary)

Previous Reports

You can download previous NCSAB reports by clicking links below and downloading the PDF / Word files.  

• NCSAB Annual Report 2021 to 2022
• NCSAB Annual Report 2021 to 2022 Summary
• NCSAB Annual Report 2020 to 2021
• NCSAB Annual Report 2020 to 2021 Summary
• NCSAB Strategic Plan 2019-2022 Action Plan after Board
• NCSAB Strategic Plan 2019 to 2022
• NCSAB Annual Report 2019 to 2020
• NCSAB Annual Report 2018 to 2019
• NCSAB Annual Report 2018 to 2019 Summary
• NCSAB Annual Report 2017 to 2018
• NCSAB Annual Report 2016 to 2017
• NCSAB Annual Action Plan 2018 to 2019
• NCSAB Annual Action Plan 2017 to 2018
• NCSAB Annual Report Executive Summary 2017 to 2018
• NCSAB Annual Report Executive Summary 2016 to 2017
• NCSAB Strategic Business Plan 2016 to 2019

Board Structure

The Board has a Business Management Group, and three subgroups (Quality Assurance, Safeguarding Adults Review and Training, Learning and Improvement).

The Board is supported by a full time Board Manager, and 0.5 FTE Business Support Officer. The Board meets Quarterly.

You can find out more about the NCSAB by clicking on the links below to download our Structure, Constitution and Information Sharing Agreement:

• NCSAB Structure
• NCSAB Constitution
• Information Sharing Agreement