Safeguarding Foundations & Your Duty
Safeguarding Foundations & Your Duty
Safeguarding is part of every public-facing role.
Safeguarding means taking reasonable action to protect children and adults who may be at risk of abuse, neglect, exploitation or avoidable harm. Security and event staff are often well placed to notice changes in behaviour, concerning interactions or a person who needs help. Your role is to observe, respond within your competence, protect immediate safety and pass the concern through the correct safeguarding route.
Who may need safeguarding?+
Children are anyone under 18. Adults may also be at risk because of care and support needs, disability, illness, coercion, exploitation, intoxication, isolation or circumstances that reduce their ability to protect themselves.
Your role+
You are not expected to decide whether abuse has occurred. Notice concerns, make the person as safe as reasonably possible, obtain appropriate help and record/report facts promptly.
Immediate danger+
If there is an immediate threat to life or serious harm, summon emergency assistance through the venue procedure and do not delay urgent action while trying to complete paperwork.
Professional curiosity+
Pay attention when something does not fit: a person appears frightened of a companion, a child is repeatedly left unsupervised, somebody seems controlled or a story changes when another person arrives.
Listen, protect, report and record. Do not investigate, promise secrecy or confront a suspected abuser unless immediate safety requires intervention.
Knowledge check
Which best describes your safeguarding role?
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