Welcome to Safeguarding Month at Askham!
This is our sixth themed month, Safeguarding. Here at Askham we take safeguarding adults at risk of abuse and neglect very seriously. Our residents and staff must know that our main aim is to keep everybody safe. Keeping people safe is called safeguarding. We make sure that our residents are protected from abuse and neglect, that they are able to be as independent as possible and make choices about how they want to live.
Abuse is when someone does or says things that frighten the resident or cause them harm.
Neglect is when the resident’s care and support needs are not being met.
The types of risk are:
- Physical Abuse – could be someone hitting, slapping, pushing or kicking the resident
- Sexual Abuse – could be someone touching the resident’s body or private parts without their permission. Or, someone making the resident touch
them in a way the resident does not want - Financial or Material Abuse – could be someone taking the resident’s money or other things that belong to them
- Psychological Abuse – could be someone being unkind to the resident, threatening them, swearing at them, calling them names or someone ignoring them
- Domestic Abuse – could be physical abuse, sexual abuse, financial abuse, or physical abuse. Domestic Abuse is when the abuse is by the resident’s partner or member of their family
- Discriminatory Abuse – could be someone bullying the resident or hurting them because of their religion, a disability, their age, their sexual partner, the colour of their skin or hair, where they come from, the language they speak
- Organisation Abuse – could be that the resident’s care staff or other organisations like the hospital or police treat them badly, neglect them or provide a bad service
- Neglect – could be that the residents is not being given enough food, not being given their medication or not being kept warm
- Self-neglect – is when the resident does not take care of themselves properly
Our posters are designed to emphasise key principles when discussing about Safeguarding.
Safeguarding Month is not intended to be a training programme. Askham staff will receive training on site and these posters are to be considered just guidelines for good practice. Askham Village Community is not responsible for any misunderstandings caused by this event. For information regarding Care training, please visit www.avctraining.net.