This document outlines key topics around safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, including equality and diversity. It discusses societal responsibility to protect those who cannot protect themselves, referencing failures in high-profile abuse cases. The document also covers integrated working, information sharing, identifying types of abuse, staff recruitment best practices, and designating safeguarding personnel. The overall message is the importance of creating a culture to prevent harm and uphold the rights and dignity of all people.

1. Safeguarding Children Protection of Vulnerable Adults Equality & Diversity New staff induction 2008: Raising awareness

2. “ There is no more fundamental test of a society than how it treats its children.” — Ronald Reagan

5. What would you do if…

6. Victoria Climbié 2 November 1991–20 February 2000 “ a shocking tale of individual professional failure and systemic incompetence” – Liam Fox

7. Soham murders 2002 Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman Bichard Inquiry: Failure to communicate

9. Integrated working Lead professional CAF (Common Assessment Framework) ContactPoint Information sharing

10. Duty to Safeguard

11. Risk of significant harm ‘ ‘

12. Physical abuse

13. Emotional abuse

14. Sexual abuse

15. Neglect

16. How to spot abuse

17. Creating a culture of Safeguarding

18. Staff recruitment

19. Security

20. Use of restraint

21. Designated person

22. Managing a disclosure

26. POVA

27. ‘ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights …’