What are responsibilities to safeguard children?
The safety and welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. The best interests of the child should be paramount. The overall aim in all dealings with children and their families is to intervene proportionately to support families to keep children safe from harm.
What do the safeguarding team do?
working collaboratively to prevent abuse and neglect where possible. ensuring agencies and individuals give timely and proportionate responses when abuse or neglect have occurred.
Who can safeguard a child?
All organisations that work with or come into contact with children should have safeguarding policies and procedures to ensure that every child, regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation, has a right to equal protection from harm.
What are the 5 main safeguarding issues?
What are Safeguarding Issues? Examples of safeguarding issues include bullying, radicalisation, sexual exploitation, grooming, allegations against staff, incidents of self-harm, forced marriage, and FGM. These are the main incidents you are likely to come across, however, there may be others.
What are the 6 principles of child safeguarding?
What are the six principles of safeguarding?
- Empowerment. People being supported and encouraged to make their own decisions and informed consent.
- Prevention. It is better to take action before harm occurs.
- Proportionality. The least intrusive response appropriate to the risk presented.
- Protection.
- Partnership.
- Accountability.
What happens in a safeguarding investigation?
The investigation will involve: face-to-face contact with the adult at risk of harm including where relevant an assessment of capacity. ascertaining the views and wishes of the adult at risk and providing appropriate support. undertaking an assessment of risk of harm.
What are the procedures for safeguarding?
Safeguarding Policies should:
Demonstrate ownership of the safeguarding agenda. Maintain and review a record of concerns. Follow safe recruitment procedures, including DBS checks (by the Disclosure and Barring Service) Maintain safe premises and equipment, inside and out.
What to do if a child tells you a safeguarding issue?
What to say to a child and how to respond
- Listen carefully to what they’re saying.
- Give them the tools to talk.
- Let them know they’ve done the right thing by telling you.
- Tell them it’s not their fault.
- Say you’ll take them seriously.
- Don’t confront the alleged abuser.
- Explain what you’ll do next.
How do you safeguard a child from neglect?
Provide adequate food, clothing and shelter (including exclusion from home or abandonment); Protect the child from physical and emotional harm or danger; Ensure adequate supervision (including the use of inadequate care-givers); or. Ensure access to appropriate medical care or treatment.
What are the 4 areas of child protection?
If your child becomes the subject of a Child Protection Plan, then this will be under one of four categories: (actual or likely) physical harm, emotional harm, sexual abuse or neglect.
What are the 3 parts of safeguarding?
What is safeguarding? | Protecting adults & Children
- Empowerment. Ensuring people are supported and confident in making their own decisions and giving informed consent.
- Protection. Providing support and representation for those in greatest need.
- Prevention.
When can you raise a safeguarding concern without consent?
Emergency or life-threatening situations may warrant the sharing of relevant information with the relevant emergency services without consent. The law does not prevent the sharing of sensitive, personal information within organisations.
Are police involved in all safeguarding investigations?
The police will take primacy of the criminal investigation and the Local Authority are the lead on safeguarding procedures however this is a shared responsibility, and should police attend an incident first, they will then have to address safeguarding initially.
What does a safeguarding order mean?
Safeguarding duties seek to protect all adults who: ● have needs for care and support (whether or not the local authority. meets any of those needs), and. ● are experiencing, or at risk of, abuse or neglect, and. ● as a result of those care and support needs are unable to protect.
What are the 5 P’s in child protection?
The 5 P’s of child protection are: Prevention, Paramountcy, Partnership, Protection and Parental Responsibility. Make your child aware of these P’s for an awkward situation they don’t understand.
Can you be prosecuted for not reporting a safeguarding concern?
The Department for Education and the Home Office are holding a joint consultation to consider prosecuting those that fail to report suspicions of child abuse or neglect to local authorities.
What are the four R’s of safeguarding?
The 4 Rs of Safeguarding Children is professional practice for how you can recognise, record, report and refer in the situation of child abuse.
What happens when a child is in immediate danger?
If the child is in immediate danger and is with you, remain with him/her and call the police. If the child is elsewhere, contact the police and explain the situation to them. If he/she needs emergency medical attention, call an ambulance and, while you are waiting for it to arrive, get help from your first aider.
How old is a child safeguarding?
Working Together to Safeguard Children 2013 only applies to children and young people until they reach the age of 18. Any incidents or concerns relating to a young person of 18 years and over, even if still at school, are not covered by Local Safeguarding Children Boards or their procedures.
Hopefully, this will allay your fears about what a social worker might ask your child.
- How are you? This question is a common opening question to build rapport with the child.
- What do you feel about mummy/daddy?
- Has mummy or daddy ever done something you don’t like?
- Conclusion.
Investigations usually take about six months. The process may take longer depending on the availability of relevant information, or if an investigation is put on hold.
What type of abuse is most common?
By far the most visible form of abuse is physical abuse. This kind of abuse is condemned by almost everyone and it is estimated that one in four women are victims of this kind of abuse. The most common forms of abuse include hitting, throwing and scalding, even suffocation is on the list.
What is an example of child protection?
These include: recognising and responding to abuse. responding to allegations of abuse made against a child. recruiting the right people to work and volunteer with children.
What is the child protection policy?
A Child Protection Policy is an organisation’s commitment to protect children from abuse, exploitation and organisational negligence. This is reflected in the way an organisation conducts its activities and the way staff behave. Child Protection Procedures are how an organisation puts its policy into action.
What does EH mean in safeguarding?
EHH – Early Help Hub / 01872 322277 / earlyhelphub@cornwall.gov.uk. FGM – Female Genital Mutilation. FIS – Family Information Service / 0800 587 8191 / fis@cornwall.gov.uk. HBV – Honour-Based Violence.
How do the police safeguard the public?
The core duty of the police service is to protect the public by detecting and preventing crime. This duty is established in common law (precedents set by decisions of the courts) and the police have both common law and legislative powers to execute it.
Can police remove kids home?
A Police Constable has the legal right to remove a child from accommodation or prevent removal, where they have reasonable cause to believe the child would otherwise be likely to suffer significant harm.
What are the 6 principles of safeguarding?
What are the six principles of safeguarding?
- Empowerment. People being supported and encouraged to make their own decisions and informed consent.
- Prevention. It is better to take action before harm occurs.
- Proportionality. The least intrusive response appropriate to the risk presented.
- Protection.
- Partnership.
- Accountability.
What level of risk is a priority 4?
Risk Priority Number (RPN)
| Severity of event (S) | Ranking | Probability of event (P) |
|---|---|---|
| High | 7 | |
| Moderate | 6 | Moderate: Occasional events |
| Low | 5 | |
| Very low | 4 |
What is the order in which a safeguarding concern is handled?
Remain calm and reassure the person that they have done the right thing by speaking up. Listen carefully and give the person time to speak. Explain that only the professionals who need to know will be informed, but never promise confidentiality. Act immediately, and do not try to address the issue yourself.
What happens if safeguarding is not followed?
If an organisation has poor safeguarding policies or no safeguarding in place could lead to: Abuse and neglect being missed. An increase in abuse cases. Vulnerable people not being treated with compassion or empathy.
What are the signs of safeguarding?
Signs and indicators
- Low self-esteem.
- Feeling that the abuse is their fault when it is not.
- Physical evidence of violence such as bruising, cuts, broken bones.
- Verbal abuse and humiliation in front of others.
- Fear of outside intervention.
- Damage to home or property.
- Isolation – not seeing friends and family.
How long should a safeguarding take?
That depends on how complicated it is, how many people are involved and how quickly people give us information. We try to finish an investigation within 14 weeks.
What are the 3 parts of safeguarding?
What is safeguarding?
- protecting children from abuse and maltreatment.
- preventing harm to children’s health or development.
- ensuring children grow up with the provision of safe and effective care.
- taking action to enable all children and young people to have the best outcomes.
Can social services take my child away? Social services will usually only take a child away from their parents if they believe that the child is at risk of harm or neglect in their current circumstances. They are obliged to investigate any complaints or concerns reported to them.
They do this to make sure the children are protected. Once social services receive the report, depending on the circumstances, they may decide to take no further action or they may decide to investigate. If they investigate, they will arrange to speak to you, your husband and the children.
What are the 4 areas of child protection?
If your child becomes the subject of a Child Protection Plan, then this will be under one of four categories: (actual or likely) physical harm, emotional harm, sexual abuse or neglect.
What do you do in a safeguarding situation?
Reporting Safeguarding Concerns: The First Steps
Listen carefully to their story and respect their rights. Notify the child or young person that only the people who need to know will be informed. Don’t try to solve the situation yourself or confront anyone. Remember to take all claims seriously.