Safeguarding
Safeguarding refers to the process of protecting children and vulnerable adults to provide safe and effective care.
Bromley Healthcare is committed to ensuring that that safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and children is embedded across all our services.
Safeguarding Children
Safeguarding is the action that is taken to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm. Safeguarding means:
- protecting children from abuse and maltreatment
- preventing harm to children’s health or development
- ensuring children grow up with the provision of safe and effective care
- taking action to enable all children and young people to have the best outcomes.
Child protection is part of the safeguarding process. It focuses on protecting individual children identified as suffering or likely to suffer significant harm.
Safeguarding children and child protection guidance and legislation applies to all children up to the age of 18, this includes the unborn child.
Bromley Healthcare has a duty to ensure that children are safe and well cared for, both where the child is a service user and/or when their parent, carer or other person in the child’s family or network is a service user. The needs of children are routinely considered as part of assessments and ongoing work with service users. Bromley Healthcare staff work closely with other professionals involved with supporting families where extra help or support is needed.
If you are concerned about a child please contact the appropriate council:
Safeguarding Children in Bexley
Safeguarding Children in Bromley
Safeguarding Children in Croydon
Safeguarding Children in Greenwich
Safeguarding Children in Lewisham
If you are a child or young person reading this and you need help or would like to talk to someone, call CHILDLINE on 0800 1111
Safeguarding Adults
Anyone who is concerned that abuse or neglect may be taking place or feels they themselves are at risk, should seek help, even if the circumstances may appear trivial or small.
If you are concerned about a vulnerable adult please contact the appropriate council:
Safeguarding Adults in Bromley
Safeguarding Adults in Croydon