Keeping You Safe
This easy guide talks about keeping you safe from abuse, in simple words and pictures.
Abuse is when someone hurts you or treats you badly.
Abuse is always wrong and should not happen.
Abuse can happen anywhere and at any time.
The person hurting your may be a stranger or someone you know.
If someone hurts you or treats you badly, tell someone who you trust.
You could tell a family member or friend, your care staff, a doctor or the police.
If you are in immediate danger, call 999.
What is safeguarding?
Safeguarding means helping people stay safe and protecting them from abuse.
What is a safeguarding alert?
A safeguarding alert is when someone tells us they are worried that a person is not safe.
We will look at the information that we are given to make sure that we are keeping everyone safe.
Safeguarding Meeting
At this meeting we will look at ways that we can make them feel safe.
What would happen at this meeting?
We will work with the person who is unsafe to put together a plan to help keep them safe.
What happens with the plan?
We will regularly check the plan to make sure that it is working.
We will keep working with the individual until things are better for them.
What happens when you or the person who felt unsafe is safe again?
This means that we can stop helping them now and will not need to have any more meetings.