Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Management (MARAM)

Background
The Merseyside Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) agreed that recommendations
from serious incidents and reviews would be implemented through a multidisciplinary review of current practice in assessing risk, co-ordinated by the
Merseyside SAB Quality Assurance Subgroup. The Merseyside Multi-Agency Risk
Assessment Meeting Model (MARAM) process was agreed through consultation
with a range of organisations across our neighbours in Knowsley in the first
instance and endorsed by the Merseyside Safeguarding Adults Board in June
2021. This initial process has now been reviewed with partners and refreshed for
use on the Wirral (June 2025)
This process mirrors the existing safeguarding process, which ensures that
information on adults at risk is shared between agencies and enables the widest
range of expertise and resources to come together to deal with instances of abuse
or neglect. The Wirral MARAM supports the original Merseyside SAB’s
commitment to prevention by identifying, mitigating and managing the risks to
adults at risk resulting either from their own choices or behaviour alone or from a
range of individual and environmental factors.