PART 1Care and support
Safeguarding adults at risk of abuse or neglect
43Safeguarding Adults Boards
1
Each local authority must establish a Safeguarding Adults Board (an “SAB”) for its area.
2
The objective of an SAB is to help and protect adults in its area in cases of the kind described in section 42(1).
3
The way in which an SAB must seek to achieve its objective is by co-ordinating and ensuring the effectiveness of what each of its members does.
4
An SAB may do anything which appears to it to be necessary or desirable for the purpose of achieving its objective.
5
Schedule 2 (which includes provision about the membership, funding and other resources, strategy and annual report of an SAB) has effect.
6
Where two or more local authorities exercise their respective duties under subsection (1) by establishing an SAB for their combined area—
a
a reference in this section, section 44 or Schedule 2 to the authority establishing the SAB is to be read as a reference to the authorities establishing it, and
b
a reference in this section, that section or that Schedule to the SAB’s area is to be read as a reference to the combined area.