Basics of Safeguarding adults and children

Question 1

What is safeguarding?

Answer 1

Safeguarding means protecting people’s health, wellbeing

and human rights, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. It’s fundamental and integral to providing high quality health care.

In addition, Safeguarding includes:

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People and organisations working together to prevent the risk of

abuse or neglect, and to stop it from happening.

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Making sure people’s wellbeing is promoted, taking their views,

wishes, feelings and beliefs into account. (CQC 2015)

Question 2

Who is at risk and needs a statutory response?

Answer 2

Adults with care and support needs who may be in

vulnerable circumstances and at risk of abuse or neglect.

In these cases, local services must work together to spot

those at risk and take steps to protect them.

• Care needs may include learning disability, mental

health needs, dementia, personality disorder, long or

short term illness, addiction, or be elderly and frail due to

ill health (Birmingham safeguarding Adults Board)

Question 3

Safeguarding is defined in Working Together to Safeguard

Children 2018 as:

Answer 3

• protecting children from maltreatment

• preventing impairment of children’s health and

development

• ensuring that children grow up in circumstances

consistent with the provision of safe and effective care

and

• taking action to enable all children to have the best

outcome

Question 4

Which children are at risk and need a statutory

response?

Answer 4

• Children are defined as anyone under the age of 18

years (The Children Act 1989)

•Often the abuser is known to the child: either a family

member or through their social network or a person in a

Position of Trust, who deliberately put themselves in a

role with child contact in order to abuse children.

• There is estimated to be 283,900 children who live in Birmingham; 87,000 of whom are under 5 and 37% live in poverty
• All children need our protection from the risk or experience of abuse or neglect

Question 5

The abuser is usually who?

Answer 5

someone known to the child (89%) and more rarely a stranger.

Question 6

Six Safeguarding Principles & Birmingham Basics

Answer 6

1. Empowerment 1. Always see the child first
2. Protection 2. Never do nothing
3. Prevention 3. Do with, not to, others
4. Proportionality 4. Do the simple things better
5. Partnership 5. Have conversations, build relationships
6. Accountability 6. Outcomes, not inputs

Question 7

Categories of Abuse for Adults and Children

Answer 7

Question 8

Answer 8

Question 9

what is Domestic Abuse?

Answer 9

Any incident of threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between two adults aged 16+ who are or have been in a relationship together OR between family members, regardless of gender or sexuality

Domestic abuse isn’t always physical. Coercive control is an act or a pattern of acts of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation or other abuse that is used to harm, punish, or frighten their victim.

The number of women convicted for

domestic violence rose by 30% in the

year to April 2015, from 3,735 to 4,866.

This is six times higher than 10 years

ago

Question 10

Domestic Abuse impacts children how?

Answer 10

We know that children that live in

home environments where there

are domestic abuse and violence

are more likely to have a

significant impact on their

emotional, behavioural, cognitive

and physical well-being

• Children lack the skills to maintain their own safety and to seek help particularly when very young
• We recommend that any situation where domestic abuse

is disclosed and there is a child in the home for a request for support to be completed.

•Children can also be victims of domestic abuse themselves.

Question 11

FGM and duty to report. Who has to be reported?

Answer 11

Since 2015 all regulated professionals have a duty to

report to the Police

• All under 18 year old girls who either

• disclose that they have undergone FGM
• you notice that they have undergone FGM as part of a usual examination

• This is a personal duty and must be completed before the end of the next working day

Question 12

The Seven Golden Rules for Information Sharing

Answer 12

1. Use the Data Protection Act as a tool

2 Tell the person whose information you are sharing UNLESS unsafe to do so

3. Take advice
4. Consent
5. Consider safety and well being
6. Necessary, proportionate, relevant, adequate, accurate, timely and secure
7. Record

HMGov : Information Sharing : Advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services to children, young people , parents and carers, 2015