Chair and members
ESSAB Independent Chair
Seona Douglas is our Independent Chair. Her role is to:
- Provide support and leadership to the Board and lead the quarterly meetings.
- Oversee core tasks, including the Strategic Plan and Annual Report
- Promote a collaborative learning culture between Board members. This ensures that learning from SARs and other areas of work is embedded in practice.
- Make sure that SAB listens to the views of people who need care and support and their families.
- Ensure that the principles of Making Safeguarding Personal are central to our work.
SAB members
East Sussex SAB is a multi-agency partnership. It is made up of senior representatives from a range of organisations. They provide leadership and strategic oversight of adult safeguarding work across East Sussex.
Our core membership includes our statutory partners. These are East Sussex County Council, NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Sussex Police.
Members include community and voluntary agencies, and lay members. This reflects that safeguarding activity is only effective with collaboration and shared commitment.
SAB partners
- East Sussex Adult Social Care and Health
- NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board
- Primary Care (GPs)
- Sussex Police
- Care for the Carers
- Change, Grow, Live
- District and Borough Councils
- Department of Work and Pensions
- East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- East Sussex Safer Communities Partnership
- East Sussex Safeguarding Children Partnership
- East Sussex Partners in Care
- Healthwatch
- HMP Lewes
- Independent home care representatives
- Lay members
- Probation Service
- South-East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Trading Standards, East Sussex County Council
- Voluntary and community sector representatives