Full biographies of Salford Adult Safeguarding Board
Chairperson
Dr Stephen Pugh, Director of Pre-qualifying
Social Work in the School of Nursing,
Midwifery and Social Work, University of
Salford
Stephen is the Independent Chair of the Salford
Adult Safeguarding Board and has acted in this
role for a number of years. He is a qualified and
registered social worker with a particular
professional interest in working with older people.
It was as a social worker that Stephen first
encountered the abuse of adults in the 1980's.
Working with adults who had been abused as a
social worker started, for Stephen, a life long
commitment to the protection of vulnerable adults as well as ensuring that all the people
who use health and social care services experience high quality personal services.
Stephen moved to work at the University of Salford in 1995 as a lecturer in social work
with older people. Whilst at the University he was able to ensure that social work
students who in turn would go on to become social workers were aware that vulnerable
adults could be abused and also knew how to respond to such incidents. Stephen styled
himself as a gerontologist - an academic who teaches, researches and writes about
issues related to older people. In 2010 Stephen was awarded his PhD following his
study of how older lesbians and gay men made sense of who they were when they were
growing up at a time when their identities were illegal or the subject of severe social
sanctions.
At the University, Stephen became the Director of Social Work leading a large team of
academic staff who in turn delivered social work education to some 1000 students
annually. This role enabled him to link into regional and national debates about the
future of social work education which are still on going and also enabled to host the
regional independent chairs of adult safeguarding meetings at the University.
During his career Stephen has been very involved with development of adult
safeguarding - writing Tameside Council's first procedure/policy on adult abuse,
undertaking training for Wigan Council and as Independent Chair for Salford City
Council. Whilst Stephen retired from the University of Salford in March 2015 he is
continuing his involvement with Salford City Council as a reflection of his on going
commitment to the protection of adults at risk within the City.
Other statutory members
Alan Campbell, Chief Operating Officer, NHS Salford
Sue Lightup, BA(Econ) Hons, CQSW, NVQ Level 5
Assessor, Cert in Post Grad Strategic Director and
Safeguarding, Salford City Council
Sue’s role is to lead on Adults, Older People and Health
and Wellbeing for the city council: helping citizens maintain
and improve their health; be involved in their local
communities at whatever level; and enjoy a good quality of
life to promote independence, benefits individuals and
strengthens communities.
Sue has the Statutory Director of Adult Social Care as part
of her role. She is ultimately where accountability in the
Council rests for safeguarding adults.
Sue has been Strategic Director in Salford since March 2009 and was previously
Director for Adult Social Care and Health/Social Services in St Helens. Sue qualified as
a Social Worker in 1979 and has worked in a variety of North West Authorities ever
since, spending 16 years in Cheshire and then with Bury and Bolton Councils as a
Senior Manager. In 2010 she also spent nearly a year working for the then NHS
Regional Health Authority as a “Change Agent”, looking at Delayed Discharges and
Intermediate Care across the Region before moving to St Helens.
She has recently been elected as the Chair of the Association of Directors of Adult
Social Services in the North West and jointly leads on Workforce issues in the region.
She has direct experience of being a carer, through supporting her mum for four years
and knows the impact that living with significant disabilities can have on families.
Sue is passionate about promoting independence, offering options for people to achieve
their potential as citizens and reducing the barriers of disadvantage – and a focus in the
future on the assets and strengths of individuals and their communities
Angela Murphy, Assistant Director Salford Community
Services Greater Manchester West NHS Foundation
A Community Psychiatric Nurse with 27 years experience,
Angela worked in Bolton Mental Health Services for 21yrs,
predominately in Community Mental Health Teams.
The CMHT and EIT are integrated specialist Mental Health
Teams which serve the local community and offer a range of
therapeutic interventions/treatments for adults over the age
of 16 with severe and enduring mental health issues.
The teams work across Salford and are aligned to GP
Practice Clusters and Neighbourhood Communities . The
teams consist of mental health practitioners from various
professional backgrounds including Community Psychiatric Nurses, Social Workers,
Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Psychiatrists, Community Care Workers and
Administrators.
The teams aim to work collaboratively with Service Users, Carers and other agencies to
promote recovery and social inclusion. The teams provide needs-led support that is
time-limited and responsive to changes in service users’ and carers’ circumstances.
The care and support that individuals will receive is set out in care plans that are
formulated by working in partnership with Service Users and Carers to assess need
under Care Programme Approach (CPA) and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990.
Angela currently chairs the Salford Directorate Safeguarding Meeting – Adults, within
the mental health trust. All mental health staff within Salford follow Local Authority
reporting procedures for Adult Safeguarding. The trust has an electronic recording
system for all untoward incidents - (DATIX) and each Safeguarding referral attracts a
DATIX report.
Each Safeguarding/DATIX referral is viewed by a senior Social Worker either Veroncia
Lloyd (Senior Manager) or Glen Mills (Senior SW). Advice is given regarding each
incident to ensure best and safest practice and protocols are followed.
She is also a member of the Trust Adult and Children's Safeguarding Committee which
ensures the Trust is meeting its statutory responsibilities in relation to the safeguarding
agenda. The Committee reports into the Trusts Clinical & Social Care Governance
Committee (CSCGC) which is a sub-committee of the Board of Directors meeting.
Angela is a member of the Adult Safeguarding Board as a representative for GMW
Salford Mental Health Services which encompasses all in-patient and community based
services.
Other members
Sarah Clayton, Head of Strategy and Enabling, Salford City Council
Sarah’s role currently includes developing the housing strategy for the city and the
supporting strategies and policies to implement the city priorities; working with partners
to develop affordable housing across the city; working on key regeneration priorities;
delivering the Supporting People programme and ensuring that the housing services
provided internally or externally in the city are developing Safeguarding good practice.
Sarah currently attends the Adult Safeguarding Board in order to be the conduit for
housing partners delivering services, she also attends the Children Safeguarding Board
Executive Group meetings and has attended Serious case reviews in order to
coordinate the responses from housing services and providers.
Dave Clemmett, Assistant Director, Operations, Salford
City Council
Dave is responsible for the social work service in integrated
care teams, the learning difficulty service, sensory service and
occupational therapy and equipment service. He is also
responsible for the city council's in-house provider services.
Dave says ‘We try to see that people have choice and control
over their support to enable and support them to have a better
quality of life People should remain in ordinary, community
based settings as long as possible with sound risk
management arrangements in place. We try to see that the
customer is at the centre of everything, that the quality of
support is what I would want for myself and that people are
treated with dignity and respect.
Dave qualified as a social worker in 1979 and worked in Trafford, Stockport, Royal
Borough of Kingston and in the USA. He started in Salford in 2002 as the joint health
and social care lead for learning difficulty. He took up his current post in Jan 2012.
Keith Darragh, CPFA Assistant Director, Safeguarding, Quality and Business
Strategy Safeguarding, Salford City Council
Keith is the lead manager for safeguarding, supporting Strategic Director, Sue Lightup.
He is also responsible for managing resources to deliver adult social care services to
meet the priorities of the council.
Keith has spent the vast majority of his public sector career at Salford and worked in
many parts of the council within support services, before becoming a Senior Manager
within Community, Health and Social care in 2002. Keith joined Salford in 1986 and
between 1986 and 1999 worked in finance support roles based in the Treasurer's
department, Chief Executives, Planning and Development, Housing and Environmental
Services. He qualified as a Chartered Public Finance Accountant in 1993.
Keith transferred to Community and Social Services as a Principal Accountant in 1999
and extended his role into service management when he became Assistant Director for
Resources in 2002. Keith has been part of the directorate ever since.
Keith has been involved in the strategy development, planning and delivery of service
transformation, which has seen the development of a thriving independent sector care
market and specialisation of council services for vulnerable people.
Keith maintains a keen interest in national adult social care issues supports the national
Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), as secretary to the ADASS
Resources Committee.
Toni Doyle, Head of Engagement and Experience, NHS Salford
A nurse with 40 years experience and employed by NHS Salford for 22 years, Toni
became a member of the Salford Adult Safeguarding Partnership Board Committee in
2009. Toni’s role is to provide high-level professional advice that promotes evidence
based and safe clinical care and to develop systems and processes for promoting safe
patient care and systems that allows the reporting of concerns about errors.
She influences the activities of NHS Salford in respect of participation in safeguarding
processes.
Toni also line manages the lead safeguarding nurse for Adult Safeguarding which
allows her to have up to date, iterative feedback relating to the safety and well being of
vulnerable adults who may engage in services NHS Salford Commission.
Partnership working within the Adult Safeguarding Unit between Health and Social Care
colleagues has been recognized as a model of good practice. This close interagency
working enables the development of effective interagency policies and procedures as
well as the appropriate sharing of information and intelligence in order to promote the
welfare of vulnerable adults in Salford.
Brian Gathercole Adult Safeguarding Coordinator/Principal Manager Adult
Safeguarding/Review and Extra care Housing
Brian has worked in almost all areas of social work including working with physical
disability and sensory impairment, older people, children, mental health and learning
disability. He has had a range of jobs, fieldwork, residential care but mainly
management roles over the last 20 years. His current role is to lead on the protection of
vulnerable adults from abuse.
His role includes: supporting the board alongside the lead nurse; keeping the board
informed of all relevant local and national developments; informing the board of areas of
concern; improving multi-agency systems; developing a training strategy; improving
publicity; coordinating and writing an annual report /business plan/progress reports;
updating policy and procedures.
Brian also provides advice and guidance to staff on more unusual safeguarding
situations. He acts as a focal point for reporting concerns about services, so that
institutional abuse allegations are investigated and the findings fed back to the board.
He is a link for key partners in NHS funded nursing team, infection control, dietary
service and Salford Royal, Police PPIU, housing, community safety; direct intervention
where serious concerns are identified; representation on subgroups to ensure good
information flow between agencies.
He also supports: the mental capacity and deprivation of liberty specialist worker; adult
social care involvement in MARAC/MAPPA; the review team and extra care housing
social work team.
Sharon Hubber – Head of safeguarding for Childrens
Services, Salford City Council
Sharon qualified as a social worker from Salford University
and started work in Rochdale in 1991 as a children and
families social worker. She became the ACPC development
officer and in 2003 became the team manger for the Every
Child Matters Team.
In 2005 she was seconded to the Department for Childrens
School and Families as the regional safeguarding adviser
and became the Head of Service for Safeguarding for
Salford.
As the Head of Service for safeguarding she has strategic
responsibility for the safeguarding and quality assurance of all operational work within
the directorate. We are an independent unit that reports directly to the Director of Social
Care Nick Page. This allows for the unit to challenge and review the work of the
operational social work teams. The unit is made up of Child protection co-ordinators,
Independent reviewing officers, Local Authority Designated Officers, Child in Need
reviewing team the Quality Assurance Team and the Salford Safeguarding Childrens
Board. Adult safeguarding are also located in the building.
Sharon’s role on the Adult Safeguarding Board is to ensure the links between the two
disciplines are maintained. She leads on several areas of work which cross across the
two boards allowing for consistency and learning.
Wayne Miller, Superintendent Neighbourhoods, Partnerships and Criminal
Justice, Greater Manchester Police
I have worked for Greater Manchester Police for 21 years. During this time I have
worked in a number of locations including Rochdale, Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne and
more recently Force Headquarters. My experience base is predominantly uniform
operations, though I have spent some time working in the Crime Investigations
Department and have also been involved in several projects.
For the last 18 months I have been based on the Salford Division where I have
previously performed the Operations role. During this time I have been involved in a
number of large scale incidents including the gas explosion in Irlam and the disorder
during the Summer of 2011. Recently I have changed portfolios and my duties now
include Safeguarding.
Part of my role is to deliver Neighbourhood Policing across Salford. Five Neighbourhood
Policing Teams, each led by an Inspector, include a combination of Police Officers and
Police and Community Support Officers. We make every effort to ensure that we take
on the views of residents in establishing what their priorities are and how they wish their
area to be policed. Neighbourhood policing is central to what we do across the whole of
Greater Manchester and great emphasis is placed on both consultation and responding
to the needs of our communities.
As a member of the Senior Leadership Team I provide a link between the police and
partners at the appropriate level. This is to ensure that collaborative working is a
fundamental part of our daily activity and resources are both efficiently and effectively
deployed.
I also provide a link between the police, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Courts,
dealing with issues as they arise whilst also striving to ensure that the police are an
effective partner in bringing offenders to justice.
Paul Petrykowski, Borough Manager (Salford) Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue
Service.
Paul Petrykowski joined the Fire and Rescue Service in May 1984. He has served in
numerous locations throughout the County. Prior to taking up the post in Salford in
June 2011, he was the Deputy Borough Commander in Wigan Borough serving in that
post five years.
The Fire and Rescue Service has gone through enormous change in the last 10 years.
The Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 provided a statutory obligation to put
prevention at the heart of what the Fire and Rescue Service does, for example by
creating a new duty for all Fire and Rescue Authorities to promote fire safety – and
other powers to help create safer communities, particularly for the most vulnerable in
society.
In practice this means working closely with other agencies and Boards such as Adult
and Child Safeguarding Boards to ensure the Service can access vulnerable people
who would otherwise be inaccessible to it. Referral pathways have been established to
ensure the Service and agencies referring into it respond to information obtained about
vulnerability.
Partner agencies need to appreciate the vulnerability of some people in relation to their
life style choices and also threats of arson. The Service employs specialist Community
Safety Officers whose role is to directly engage with vulnerable people to reduce the
risk.
Sue Puffett, Community Safety, Salford
City Council
Sue coordinates, manages and
commissions services on behalf of the
council in the field of crime and disorder.
This involves working with public, private
and voluntary sector organisations to
bring excellent quality projects and
services into Salford and, in some cases,
linking with colleagues across Greater
Manchester. This includes working with
partners to resource services, sourcing
funding opportunites and writing joint bids.
Sue represents the Community Safety Unit and the Community Safety Partnership on
the safeguarding board, as she has specialist knowledge about Violence Against
Women, which covers sexual and domestic abuse, female genital mutilation, trafficking
and prostitution. Salford has a Violence Against Women Board and a governance
structure that sits below it. It’s important to make the links with adult and child
safeguarding.
Sue also commissions support for victims of domestic abuse through Salford Woman’s
Aid who employ a team of IDVA’s (Independent Domestic Violence Advisors) that
support high risk victims referred from the MARAC (Multi Agency Risk Assessment
Conference) and Outreach IDVA’s for lower risk victims. They are all training by
CAADA (Coordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse) and support both male and
female survivors in safety planning, practical help, legal advice from a specialist solicitor
as well as signposting to other agencies and services.
Jacquie Purser, BA Health Studies RGN, Specialist
Practitioner (District Nursing), Non Medical Nurse
prescriber, NVQ Assessor
Jacquie Purser is the Head of NHS Funded Care / NHS
Continuing Healthcare Commissioning for NHS Salford.
Jacquie is also the Clinical Lead for NHS Funded Care
and NHS Continuing Healthcare for NHS Greater
Manchester.
Jacquie’s role is to ensure NHS Salford and other PCT’s
within Greater Manchester are compliant with the
legislation associated with the National Framework for
NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing
Care. This role incorporates commissioning safe, effective care packages for individuals
who have complex and intensive healthcare needs.
Jacquie qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1979 working at Hope Hospital and then
transfer to Ladywell Hospital as a Ward Sister. In 1981 Jacquie became a Community
Nurse and qualified as a Specialist Practitioner the same year. Jacquie worked in the
Community until 1998 when she became a Nursing Home Inspector for Salford and
Trafford Health Authority. In 2002 this function was transferred to the National Care
Standards Commission that has subsequently become the Care Quality Commission.
In 2002 Jacquie became the Nursing Home Coordinator for Salford Community Trust
and implemented National Policy in respect of the NHS’s contribution to funding
individuals in Nursing Homes. In 2003 Jacquie established one of the country’s first
Adult Safeguarding Units and engaged a Lead Nurse for Adult Safeguarding and
facilitated the co-location of both Health and Social Care staff whose responsibility was
to implement the Government’s ‘No Secrets’ document.
Elizabeth Walton, RN, BSc Hons Community and Public Health, BSc Hons
Community Specialist Practitioner- District Nursing, PG Certificate (MSc)
Safeguarding Adults (Leadership and Management).
Elizabeth Walton is the Lead Nurse Adult Safeguarding within NHS Salford Clinical
Commissioning Group (CCG). She has responsibility to provide expertise relating to the
safeguarding of adults to staff from, NHS Salford, partnership organisations and
independent contractors who work and who deliver care and support to Salford
residents.
Elizabeth has worked within NHS Salford for over 12 years and commenced her nursing
career as a community staff nurse which ultimately led into her becoming a District
Nursing Sister. More recently Elizabeth developed this role and became a specialist
Infection Prevention and Control Nurse within Salford and contributed to a significant
reduction in health care acquired infections. Within this role, Elizabeth worked closely
with the Safeguarding Unit to improve the standards of infection control within care
home facilities across the city.
This dedication to protecting adults and improving the quality of services for the people
of Salford has ultimately led to her natural progression into the role of lead nurse for
adult safeguarding.