What is safeguarding?

Safeguarding is how we protect children, young people and adults at risk of abuse.

Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility, it's about:

Protecting children, young people and adults who are at risk of abuse
Preventing neglect, abuse and exploitation
Helping you to keep yourself safe or put plans in place to help protect those who cannot protect themselves
Everybody feeling safe no matter who they are or what their circumstances are

Abuse of an adult includes:

Not caring for an adult properly (neglect)
Controlling or pressuring an adult to give away money or property (financial)
Threatening, humiliating or harassing an adult (psychological)
Hurting an adult and causing injury (physical)
Touching or doing things to an adult without consent (sexual)
Treating an adult badly because of disability, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or gender (discrimination/hate crime)
An adult who neglects their own health or who self-harms
Sexually exploiting an adult for money, power or status (sexual exploitation)
Exploiting an adult for money or power, through tricking, coercing or forcing them to engage in illegal activities (criminal exploitation)
Faking a friendship in order to take advantage of a vulnerable person (mate crime).
Female Genital Mutilation - link to: https://www.sunderland.gov.uk/article/12194/Female-genital-mutilation
Drawing a vulnerable adult into extremist/terrorist views and activities (radicalisation)

Abuse of a child includes:

Not caring for a child properly (neglect)
Ongoing emotional maltreatment or emotional neglect of a child (psychological)
Hurting a child and causing injury (physical)
Forcing or persuading a child into sexual activities (sexual)
Cyber bullying, grooming, sexually abusing or exploiting a child online (online)
Sexually exploiting a child for money, power or status (sexual exploitation)
Exploiting a child for money or power, through tricking, coercing or forcing them to engage in illegal activities (criminal exploitation)
Female Genital Mutilation - link to: https://www.sunderland.gov.uk/article/12194/Female-genital-mutilation
Drawing a vulnerable child into extremist/terrorist views and activities (radicalisation)

Abuse can be carried out by anyone, including:

Abuse can happen anywhere at any time, including:

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