Safeguarding at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre recognises that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. All staff have a duty to identify and respond to safeguarding concerns across the Trust.

The Safeguarding Team provides specialist advice, training and support to staff in regards to the following:

Safeguarding Adults
Safeguarding Children
Domestic Abuse and Harmful Practices
Prevent
Mental Capacity/ DoLS
Caring for patient with Additional Needs

The team provides services across Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales.

The Safeguarding Team

Executive Lead – Chief Nurse

Safeguarding Lead – Deputy Chief Nurse

Named Nurse for Safeguarding

Named Doctor for Safeguarding

Safeguarding Practitioner – Prevent Lead

The team provides advice and support from 9am-4:45pm Monday – Friday and can be reached via:

Email: ccf-tr.clatterbridge.safeguarding@nhs.net

0151 318 8668

Safeguarding Adults

Safeguarding means protecting an adult’s right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect.

The Care Act 2014 describes an adult at risk as:

Someone over the age of 18
Has care/support needs
Is at risk of or experiencing abuse and neglect
As a result of those care/support needs is unable to protect themselves from either the risk of, or experience of abuse and neglect.

6 principles of Safeguarding Adults:

Empowerment
Prevention
Proportionality
Protection
Partnership
Accountability

Safeguarding Children

The Children Act 1989 states that the local authority (social services) has a duty to investigate if there is reasonable cause to suspect a child is suffering or is likely to suffer significant harm.

Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018

All organisations have a duty to:

Protect children from maltreatment
Prevent impairment of children’s health or development
Ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
Take action to enable all children to have the best outcomes

Domestic Abuse

Domestic abuse can be a single incident or a pattern of incidents of abusive behaviour.This could be perpetrated by a partner or an ex-partner, but also by a family member who is aged 16 or over.

Domestic abuse can include:

Coercive behaviour (a pattern of intimidation, degradation, isolation and control with the use or threat of violence)
Psychological and/or emotional abuse
Physical and/ or sexual abuse
Financial/ economic abuse
Harassment and stalking

Prevent

Prevent is one of the four key principles of CONTEST.

Prevent focuses on working with vulnerable individuals who may be at risk of being exploited by radicalisers and subsequently drawn into terrorist activity.

The Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 places a duty on all NHS staff to refer to Prevent where there are concerns that a person may be vulnerable to exploitation.

Useful links

Safeguarding Referrals:

Cheshire East:

Adults:

https://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/livewell/staying-safe/keeping-adults-safe/concerned-about-an-adult.aspx

Children:

https://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/livewell/care-and-support-for-children/services-from-childrens-social-care/child-protection/child-protection.aspx

Cheshire West:

Adults:

https://www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/residents/health-and-social-care/adult-social-care/raising-concerns/adult-safeguarding

Children:

https://www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/residents/health-and-social-care/children-and-young-people/report-a-concern-about-a-child