Within the United Kingdom, Safeguarding is described as the measures put into place in order to protect the health, wellbeing and human rights of individuals which allows them to live free from abuse, harm and neglect. Everyone has a responsibility to ensure that our service users live their lives with quality, choice and without fear.

If you have a concern, please do not hesitate to raise it, it is better to do something and find out it wasn’t needed than to do nothing and find out it was very much needed. Sometimes, things may seem trivial, or a one off, but somebody else may also see something little and having all these small pieces of information pieced together can sometimes be the difference between preventing abuse from occurring or preventing it from escalating.

All information shared will be treated sensitively and remain confidential within the management team, other than if it is felt it is necessary to escalate to the safeguarding team at Northumberland County Council.