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PART 7SAFEGUARDING

National Independent Safeguarding Board

132The National Independent Safeguarding Board

(1)There is to be a board called the National Independent Safeguarding Board (referred to in this Part as “the National Board”).

(2)The National Board’s duties are—

(a)to provide support and advice to Safeguarding Boards with a view to ensuring that they are effective,

(b)to report on the adequacy and effectiveness of arrangements to safeguard children and adults in Wales, and

(c)to make recommendations to the Welsh Ministers as to how those arrangements could be improved.

(3)The National Board—

(a)must make an annual report to the Welsh Ministers,

(b)must make such other reports to the Welsh Ministers as they require, and

(c)may make such other reports as it thinks fit.