Safeguarding

Question 1

What does safeguarding mean?

Answer 1

Protecting people’s health, wellbeing and human rights, allowing them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect.

Question 2

What does safeguarding children mean?

Answer 2

Protecting them from maltreatment and making sure they grow up in circumstances that are safe

Question 3

What does safeguarding adults include?

Answer 3

Protecting their right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect, prevent the risk of abuse or neglect and making sure peoples wellbeing is promoted

Question 4

Definition of abuse

Answer 4

Treated in a way that is unacceptable in a given culture at a given time

Question 5

Definition of a vulnerable adult

Answer 5

Someone who may be in need of community care services by reason of mental or other disability, age or illness, someone who is unable to take care of themselves

Question 6

What are the 7 types of abuse?

Answer 6

Physical, emotional, sexual, neglect, financial, discriminatory and institutional

Question 7

Intraoral signs of sexual abuse

Answer 7

Ulceration, vesicles (small cysts), red or purple spot at the junction of the hard and soft palate

Question 8

What is neglect?

Answer 8

The persistent failure to meet a child’s basic physical or psychological needs, resulting in impairment of the child’s health or development.

Question 9

Signs of neglect in dentistry

Answer 9

Recurrent caries and not attending for the treatment

Question 10

The 5 Rs of safeguarding

Answer 10

Recognise - the type of abuse
Respond - to the abuse
Report - to the relevant personnel 
Record - in the appropriate area 
Refer - to the police or relevant organisation

Question 11

What is the limitation for a dental professional in terms of safeguarding?

Answer 11

A dental professional cannot make a diagnosis of abuse or neglect, simply raise their concerns

Question 12

The 3 stages of intervention

Answer 12

Preventive dental response - offer support, set targets, raise concerns with the parents
Preventive multi-agency management - liaising with other professionals who work with the family
Child protection referral - make a child protection referral

Question 13

What is PREVENT?

Answer 13

Works to stop people from supporting terrorism or becoming a terrorist

Question 14

What are the 5 British values?

Answer 14

Democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect, tolerance of those with different beliefs and faiths