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Safeguarding is about keeping people safe. Safeguarding means protecting a citizen’s health, wellbeing and human rights; enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. Safeguarding children, young people and adults is everyone’s responsibility.
All organisations that work with or come into contact with children should have safeguarding policies and procedures to ensure that vulnerable adults or children regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation, has a right to equal protection from harm. Shaw Trust has developed a Safeguarding Culture which means that the people we support are able to live a life free from fear, harm and abuse. When harm does happen, it needs to be dealt with effectively, promptly and proportionately.
• Speak to your Tutor Assessor or another responsible adult.
• Speak to our Safeguarding team on LWS@ixionholdings.com
• Explore further what your concerns are with the most appropriate person.
• Is the person the concern is about in any immediate danger? If so do the emergency services need to be called?
Once you have raised a concern with the most appropriate person then you will be asked to explain your concerns. This might be your Tutor, the Safeguarding team for your area or another member of staff. The person you speak to will then complete a referral form detaining all that you have said and also including any actions which might already have been taken. This form will be sent to the Safeguarding team for Learning and Skills who will review the case and request for any further actions to be taken if appropriate. If you require any further information about any part of Safeguarding, then please ask your Tutor who will be able to direct you to the most suitable resources.
Care Act 2014 statutory guidance define Safeguarding as protecting an adult’s right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect. It is about people and organisations working together to prevent and stop both the risks and experience of abuse or neglect. While at the same time making sure that the adult’s wellbeing is promoted including, where appropriate, having regard to their views, wishes, feelings and beliefs in deciding on any action.
Adult Safeguarding is slightly different as a local authority will only support a referral for an Adult Safeguarding case if there is ‘reasonable cause to suspect that an adult in its area (whether or not ordinarily resident there):
• Has needs for care and support (whether the authority is meeting any of those needs),
• Is experiencing, or is at risk of, abuse or neglect.
• Because of those needs is unable to protect himself or herself against the abuse or neglect or the risk of it.’ (Care Act 2014, section 42).
Safeguarding adults is for people who, because of issues such as dementia, learning disability, mental ill-health or substance abuse, have care and support needs that may make them more vulnerable to abuse or neglect. Regardless of whether your safeguarding concern relates to adults, a child, or both, you should remember that safeguarding is not simply protection from harm, but it extends to pro-actively promoting wellbeing and security.
Life as a learner can be demanding and stressful. We want to ensure you receive the appropriate emotional and mental wellbeing support. Learner Wellbeing Support (LWS) provides free, and confidential, help and guidance during your time with us.
We can advise and signpost you to support available for:
We understand it can feel daunting to ask for help, but whatever concerns you might have, or however you are feeling, drop us an email at LWS@ixionholdings.com and we can arrange a telephone call or a remote appointment to discuss your situation further.
Legislation and guidance in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland lists different categories of abuse, but these remain a good basis for understanding the types of harm that someone might experience:
This covers a wide range of behaviour, but it can be broadly defined as neglecting to care for one’s personal hygiene, health, or surroundings. An example of self-neglect is behaviour such as hoarding. For information and support please visit NHS Safeguarding
This encompasses slavery, human trafficking, forced labour, and domestic servitude. People are bought and sold for sexual exploitation, forced labour, street crime, cannabis cultivation, grooming and pimping, domestic servitude, forced marriage or even the sale of organs and human sacrifice. For information and support please visit Modern Slavery Helpline
This includes psychological, physical, sexual, financial, and emotional abuse perpetrated by anyone within a person’s family. It also includes so-called “honour” based violence.
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This includes neglect and poor care practice within an institution or specific care setting, such as a hospital or care home, or in relation to care provided in one’s own home. Organisational abuse can range from one off incidents to ongoing ill-treatment. It can be through neglect or poor professional practice as a result of the structure, policies, processes and practices within an organisation.
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This includes hitting, slapping, pushing, kicking, restraint, and misuse of medication. It can also include inappropriate sanctions.
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This includes rape, indecent exposure, sexual harassment, inappropriate looking or touching, sexual teasing or innuendo, sexual photography, subjection to pornography or witnessing sexual acts, indecent exposure and sexual assault, or sexual acts to which the adult has not consented or was pressured into consenting.
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This includes theft, fraud, internet scamming, and coercion in relation to an adult’s financial affairs or arrangements, including in connection with wills, property, inheritance or financial transactions. It can also include the misuse or misappropriation of property, possessions, or benefits.
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This includes ignoring medical or physical care needs and failing to provide access to appropriate health social care or educational services. It also includes the withdrawing of the necessities of life, including medication, adequate nutrition, and heating.
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This includes threats of harm or abandonment, deprivation of contact, humiliation, blaming, controlling, intimidation, coercion, harassment, verbal abuse, isolation, or withdrawal from services or supportive networks.
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There are five additional types of harm that are not included in The Care Act, but they are also relevant to safeguarding.
Cyber bullying occurs when someone repeatedly makes fun of another person online, or repeatedly picks on another person through emails or text messages. It can also involve using online forums with the intention of harming, damaging, humiliating, or isolating another person. It includes various different types of bullying, including racist bullying, homophobic bullying, or bullying related to special education needs and disabilities. The main difference is that, instead of the perpetrator carrying out the bullying face-to-face, they use technology as a means to do it.
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This is a term used to describe a marriage in which one or both of the parties are married without their consent or against their will. A forced marriage differs from an arranged marriage, in which both parties’ consent to the assistance of a third party in identifying a spouse. The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 make it a criminal offence to force someone to marry.
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Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) is a type of child abuse where people under 18 are manipulated and coerced into committing crimes. Criminal exploitation takes many forms, the most commonly known relating to the supply and movement of drugs, often referred to as County Lines, offences in relation to guns and other weapons, money laundering, violent offences and in some cases Cuckooing where criminals forcibly take over control of a person’s home.
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This form of abuse occurs when there is any kind of physical, sexual, emotional, or financial abuse or coercive control exercised between children and adults, both on and offline. Downplaying certain behaviours, for example dismissing sexual harassment as “just banter”, “just having a laugh”, “part of growing up” or “boys being boys”; or not recognising that emotional bullying can sometimes be more damaging than physical harm and should be taken equally seriously, can lead to a culture of unacceptable behaviours, an unsafe environment for people to work or study.
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The aim of radicalisation is to inspire new recruits, embed extreme views and persuade vulnerable individuals to the legitimacy of a cause. This may be direct through a relationship, or through social media.
Prevent is the Government’s strategy to stop people from becoming involved in, or supporting, terrorism in all its forms. Prevent is safeguarding. In the same way that support is provided to people at risk of involvement with anti-social behaviour, gangs, drugs or other forms of harm, individuals vulnerable to being groomed into radicalisation can also be helped. It works with individuals and communities by using voluntary early intervention to encourage them to challenge extremist and terrorist ideology and behaviour.
• The main aim of Prevent is to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.
• At the heart of Prevent is safeguarding children and adults and providing early intervention to protect and divert people away from being drawn into terrorist activity.
• Prevent addresses all forms of terrorism but continues to ensure resources and effort are allocated on the basis of threats to our national security.
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Visit our learner resources page to view further resources, information and guidance.
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Alternatively please contact LWS@ixionholdings.com