About the board
The Board is made up of strategic leaders from different agencies. We set the strategic direction for multi-agency safeguarding. The agencies represented on the board are:
- Barnado’s
- Cardiff and Vale Local Authorities
- Cardiff and Vale University/ Swansea Bay University Health Boards
- Care Forum Wales
- His Majesty’s Prison Service Cardiff
- Home Office
- Llamau
- National Probation Service
- NSPCC
- South Wales Fire and Rescue Service
- South Wales Police
- Velindre, NHS Trust
- Welsh Ambulance Service, NHS Trust
The Board carries out these day-to-day functions, through:
- Policy direction
- Monitoring the effectiveness of safeguarding within agencies
- Commissioning practice reviews
- Sharing learning to practitioners to make sure that safeguarding is a priority
The board has governance of smaller groups that carry out the core functions.
The core functions include:
- Developing, implementing and monitoring procedures that help protect people and prevent abuse
- Raising awareness of the board’s work
- Make sure the measures taken by agencies are effective
- Make and monitor recommendations
- Carry out practice reviews, assessments and audits to share learning and improve practice
- Reviewing the performance of the board and its partners
- Facilitating research on protection and prevention of abuse and neglect
- Identifying and reviewing the training needs of practitioners
Board Structure
