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This report summarises the Council’s safeguarding responsibilities and proposes a combined safeguarding policy for children and adults. The new policy updates current procedures to reflect best practice, clarifies reporting process and highlights differing forms of abuse and indicators as well as summarising other related policies and strategies.

The Committee agreed the adoption of the Safeguarding Policy for Children and Adults as set out in Annex 1 to the report.

The Committee received and considered a report that summarised the Council’s safeguarding responsibilities and proposed a combined safeguarding policy for children and adults.

The report highlighted that the policy followed the safeguarding guidelines promoted and adopted by the statutory body for safeguarding, Surrey County Council. The policy updated current procedures to reflect best practice, clarified the reporting process and highlighted differing forms of abuse and indicators as well as summarising other related policies and strategies.

Accordingly, the Committee agreed the adoption of the Safeguarding Policy for Children and Adults as set out in Annex 1 to the report.