Safeguarding Flashcards

What is 'online safety' in the context of child safeguarding?

Answer: Protecting children from online risks including grooming, exploitation, cyberbullying, and exposure to harmful content — healthcare professionals must be able to recognise and respond to online harm indicators

Online safety is a growing dimension of child safeguarding. Healthcare professionals may encounter children displaying indicators of online exploitation, grooming, or self-harm facilitated online, and must know how to respond.

What is the role of a 'Designated Safeguarding Lead' (DSL) in an NHS organisation?

Answer: A senior named individual responsible for safeguarding oversight, staff training, managing referrals, and liaison with external agencies

The DSL is a senior clinical or managerial lead responsible for overseeing safeguarding policy and practice, supporting staff with safeguarding concerns, managing case referrals, and engaging with external safeguarding agencies.

What is 'galvanisation' in the context of radicalisation and Prevent safeguarding?

Answer: The process by which a vulnerable individual is actively recruited into extremist ideology through targeted contact, often online

In Prevent terminology, galvanisation refers to the active recruitment and radicalisation process — where a vulnerable person's pre-existing grievances are exploited and channelled towards extremist ideology or violent action.

What is the 'SPICT' tool and how does it relate to safeguarding?

Answer: Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool — identifies those approaching end of life; awareness may be relevant when a deteriorating patient's care needs are not being met

While primarily a palliative care tool, SPICT identifies patients with complex needs approaching end of life. Where such patients' needs are unmet or carers are providing inadequate care, this may intersect with adult safeguarding.

What does 'multi-agency working' mean in the context of safeguarding?

Answer: Collaboration between health, social care, police, education, and third sector organisations to share information and coordinate safeguarding responses

Effective safeguarding requires collaboration across professional and organisational boundaries. Multi-agency working involves shared information, joint assessment, coordinated planning, and collective accountability for safeguarding outcomes.

Under safeguarding frameworks, what is the 'paramountcy principle'?

Answer: The child's welfare is the paramount consideration in all decisions made about them — the fundamental principle of the Children Act 1989

The paramountcy principle (Children Act 1989 s1) states that the child's welfare shall be the court's primary consideration in all proceedings concerning children. It has been extended to broader safeguarding decision-making.