4.6 The SMB should include senior representatives from each of the Responsible Authority and Duty to Co-operate (DTC) agencies. Representatives should have sufficient seniority to enable them to contribute to developing and maintaining effective inter-agency public protection procedures and protocols on behalf of their agency and to address the practical and resource implications of MAPPA.

4.7 The membership of the SMB should include as a minimum:

• Probation Service - at Local Delivery Unit Head grade or above.
• Police Service – preferably at ACC rank but may be a lower rank with appropriate experience and delegated authority.
• Prisons - at Governing Governor grade or above.
• MAPPA Co-ordinator - to provide operational context and management information to the meeting.
• Lay Advisers - each area should have two Lay Advisers, who are appointed by the Secretary of State.
• Housing - senior representation from the local authority and housing suppliers. The SMB will need to agree with the housing representative how they will ensure that information is disseminated within the various strands of local housing providers.
• Health Services - this should be someone who can provide a senior managerial, clinical and mental health perspective.
• Social Services - this should be one or more people who can reflect the range of social services responsibilities, including children and vulnerable adults, mental health, disabilities and looked-after children. They should be from a senior managerial rank.
• Education Services - the SMB will agree who in education services can represent local education provision.
• Youth Offending Team - senior representation at a strategic level. Where there is more than one Youth Offending Team (YOT) operating in an area, the SMB will agree the representation arrangements with the YOT managers to ensure that information is disseminated across the teams.
• Employment Services - senior representation from Jobcentre Plus.
• Electronic Monitoring Providers - the SMB will need to agree with local representatives how they will participate in the work of the SMB.
• Home Office Immigration Enforcement (HOIE) - here too, the SMB will need to agree how HOIE representatives will participate in the work of the SMB.

4.8 For those agencies that have co-terminus boundaries with the MAPPA area (for example police), the representation will be relatively straightforward.

4.9 Where agency boundaries are not co-terminus, the Responsible Authority should negotiate a protocol with DTC agencies to agree who will attend the SMB meetings and resolve how information from the SMB will be disseminated to relevant colleagues.