Safeguarding and protection

SAFEGUARDING AND PROTECTION

What is safeguarding?

Safeguarding is protecting peoples health, wellbeing, human rights and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect.

safeguarding protects:

• Physical abuse: Intentional bodily injury.
• Emotional abuse: Verbal behavior that are meant to control, isolate or frighten you.
• sexual abuse and neglect: inappropriate sexual behavior.
• Bullying: Repetitive, intentional hurting of a person or group by another person or group, where the relationship involves an imbalance of power.
• Grooming: It's when a person builds a relationship with a child, young person or an adult who's at risk so they can abuse them and manipulate them into doing things.
• Harrassment: Repeated behavior towards a person that causes mental or emotional suffering.
• Discrimination: Unfair treatment of people and groups based on characteristics such as race, gender, age, or sexual orientation.
• Forced marriage: Where one or both dont or can't concent to the marriage and pressure or abuse is used to force them into marriage.
• Financial abuse: Mistreatment of someone in terms of their money.

What is protection?

Action taken to protect specific individuals who are vulnerable or at risk of harm.

Examples of protection:

• Safeguarding and protection: Safeguarding is protecting peoples health, wellbeing, human rights and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect.
• Equal opportunities:means that everyone within an organisation should have an equal chance to apply and be selected for posts, to be trained or promoted equally and fairly.
• Record keeping: Protection in records refers to the process of securing documents, records and files against damage or destruction.
• Confidentiality: Confidentiality in health and social care is the practice of keeping the personal and intimate information of patients and clients private.
• First aid: Inmediate care a sick or injured person gets.

What is protection?

Action taken to protect specific individuals who are vulnerable or at risk of harm.

Examples of protection:

• Safeguarding and protection: Safeguarding is protecting peoples health, wellbeing, human rights and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect.
• Equal opportunities:means that everyone within an organisation should have an equal chance to apply and be selected for posts, to be trained or promoted equally and fairly.
• Record keeping: Protection in records refers to the process of securing documents, records and files against damage or destruction.
• Confidentiality: Confidentiality in health and social care is the practice of keeping the personal and intimate information of patients and clients private.
• First aid: Inmediate care a sick or injured person gets.