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A Safer Sunderland

BE SAFE IN SUNDERLAND with significant and exciting steps forward in Adult Protection.

Sunderland City Council has always taken the issue of abuse very seriously and has worked hard to ensure that Sunderland has been at the leading edge in Adult Protection.

The Multi-Agency Panel for the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (MAPPVA) was set up in 1997 but has more recently been replaced by the “Sunderland Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board”.

Safeguarding Adults: a National Framework of Standards Document recognises the need to shift from the reactionary approach to abuse to focus on a more preventative approach, ensuring that the adult is central to the process.

This Framework has been fully embraced in Sunderland, recognising the need to continually raise standards. As a result there has been a review of it’s current Procedures.

Sunderland continues to work closely with partners from the statutory, voluntary and independent sector who recognise the need to work together for the benefit of those who can potentially be at risk of harm and abuse.

Sunderland’s Safeguarding Adults Partnership will launch its new Procedures on 25th April 2007 at the Stadium of Light where Gary FitzGerald, Chief Executive of Action on Elder Abuse will provide the keynote speech.