Safeguarding
Making sure you're safe
What is Safeguarding?
Safeguarding is about making sure you are safe.
If you or someone you know is at risk of harm or abuse, speak out - we are here to help.
Talk to any member of staff or CLICK HERE TO REPORT IT.
Click here to go to the Student Safeguarding website. On this site, you can get lots more information about different areas of safeguarding, including:
Staying Safe Online
Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
Drug and Alcohol Support
Sexual Health
Forced Marriage and Honour-Based Abuse
Bullying
Here is a presentation on Safeguarding and Prevent, or you can click here to access it in a new tab.
Abusive Relationships
Definition: This is when a partner in a relationship has power and control over the other partner and hurts them physically or emotionally to keep this control.
Some useful resources:
Abusive Relationships Knowledge Organiser - A handout that brings together all the key information about what might make a relationship abusive and how you can get support if you experience this.
Consent Knowledge Organiser - A handout that brings together all the key information about consent and who you can turn to for help with this.
Childline - Link to the Childline website where you can find information and support on any issues that are worrying you, including abuse in relationships.
Disrespect NoBody - Link to the Disrespect NoBody website where you can find information about sexting, relationship abuse, consent, rape, porn, and harrassment.
National Domestic Abuse Hotline - Link to the National Domestic Abuse Hotline website where you can find more information about what domestic abuse is, how to spot it and how to stop it.
A video from Disrespect NoBody about sexting.
A video about what it means to consent to sex.
Forced Marriage
Definition: This is when one or both people are pressured or forced into getting married, usually receiving abuse.
Some useful resources:
What is Forced Marriage? - An easy-to-read leaflet about what forced marriage is and how you can get help if you are worried about this.
Karma Nirvana - A link to the Karma Nirvana website, where you can get help if you are worried about forced marriage or honour-based abuse.
Sexual Exploitation
Definition: This is when people use the power they have over young people to sexually abuse them.
Some useful resources:
NSPCC - Child Sexual Exploitation - A link to the NSPCC webpage on child sexual exploitation, where you can learn more and get help if you are worried about this.
Safeline - A link to the Safeline website, where you can get help if you are worried about sexual abuse and exploitation.
Know about CSE ‘Rebecca’s Story’
An interactive video where you can learn about sexual exploitation and the things you should look out for. You can grab the video and move it around as you work through the storyline.
Say Something
A video about the importance of saying something when you're worried about a friend.
REMOVE A NUDE IMAGE SHARED ONLINE
It can be scary finding out a nude image or video of you has been shared online. But Childline can help. Follow the steps on this page to get help.
GET HELP
You shouldn't feel ashamed if someone has done something to you that you didn't consent to.
If you have been hurt, upset, humiliated, or abused by someone, you can get help. You don't have to face this alone.
Have a look below to find out where you can get help.
Rape Crisis - England and Wales
Here you can find lots of information about how to get help if you have been raped or sexually assaulted, including how to access a rape crisis centre, plus access self-help tools and a live chatline.
Survivors West Yorkshire are a specialist sexual violence abuse support service, covering Bradford, Leeds, Huddersfield, Wakefield and Halifax. They offer a range of pathways to support, as well as self-help tools.
Victim Support - West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire Victim Support provides a free, confidential, victim-centred service which is open to anyone affected by crime, regardless whether or not they have reported the crime to the police. This includes victims of rape and sexual assault.
Galop is the UK’s LGBT+ anti-abuse charity. They work with and for LGBT+ victims and survivors of interpersonal abuse and violence.
Childline have lots of information available to support you with anything sex and relationships, including when things go wrong or when people do things to you without your consent. It is free to contact them.
Survivors UK (for men who have experienced rape and sexual abuse)
Survivors UK are here to help sexually abused men as well as their friends and family, no matter when the abuse happened, and challenge the silence and attitudes. There are options for anyone over the age of 13.
1 in 6 men have had unwanted sexual experiences. This can cause problems, even many years later. You don’t have to just live with it. There are things you can do and people who can help.
Learn methods and practical skills to help you feel better in the moment and improve your longer term wellbeing.
NAPAC - The National Association for People Abused in Childhood
The damage caused by child abuse doesn’t always end in childhood. NAPAC offer support to adult survivors and training for those who support them.
The Hazlehurst Centre SARC offers a comprehensive service for anyone living in West Yorkshire, who has experienced sexual violence or sexual abuse. Clients can access The Hazlehurst Centre via the police and other professionals, as well as via the self-referral pathway (booking an appointment at the SARC, without police involvement).