It is an exciting time for the Newcastle Safeguarding Adults Board.  For the past few months we have been consulting with a wide range of groups to talk about some ideas that we hope will improve service user, carer and public engagement within safeguarding adults work.  Our ideas include an easy-read guide about safeguarding adults, a feedback form so that people can tell us what they think about our service and a Best Practice Guide for professionals on involving service users and/or their representatives in the safeguarding adults process.  As part of this consultation we have visited a wide range of groups to talk about our ideas.  We would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to everyone who has helped us with our consultation work, and we will keep you up to date with the changes that we make to our service.