Strategic role

The SAB provides a forum for strategic discussion and agreement on:

• areas for improvement
• policy issues
• guidance for practitioners, commissioners and service providers
• approaches to self-neglect
• preventing abuse and neglect
• addressing antisocial behaviour, hate crime and domestic abuse
• the respective roles of the board, other boards and partners.

The SAB must publish a strategic plan outlining:

• how it will achieve its objectives
• what actions each member will take to implement the strategy.

Although the Care Act 2014 requires a SAB to produce a strategic plan for each financial year, in practice it is likely to be a rolling three- to five-year plan that is reviewed and revised annually.