If you have any concerns about a child or adult who might be at risk of harm it's important you alert someone. If someone is in imminent danger then you should call the police on 999. If you're concerned that someone is being exploited or abused you can contact the city's safeguarding boards using the contact details provided below:
For Adults
Age Leeds
Offering a range of social care, health and wellbeing services, and digital inclusion projects (helping people to get online/use new technology) for older people across Leeds
Call: 0113 389 3000 or National helpline on: 0800 678 1174.
More information here
Adult Social Care
Care and support services, also known as social care services, help people who are in need of practical support due to illness, disability, old age, or a low income
Telephone: 0113 2224401 Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5pm .
Out of Office Hours Emergency Duty Team: 07712106378
Leeds Safeguarding Adults Board
Contact Leeds Safeguarding Adults board for concerns about a person who is over 18 years of age and you feel they are being abused or at risk of abuse from another person, you can seek help from them here
Telephone: 0113 222 4401 opening hours: Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm
Out of hours: 07712 106 378
For children
Leeds Children's Social Work Services-Duty & Advice Team
Duty and Advice Team on: 0113 3760336 between 8.30am to 5pm Monday to Thursday or 8.30am to 4.30pm Friday.
Outside normal office hours, please phone the out of hours Emergency Duty Team on: 0113 5350600 5pm to 8.30am Monday to Thursday or Friday 4.30pm to Monday 8.30am.
Leeds Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP)
Contact (LSCP) for concerns about a child's welfare here
Address: Merrion House 110 Merrion Street Leeds LS2 8BB
Tel: 0113 3786018
Email: lscp.info@leeds.gov.uk
Identifying and helping a vulnerable person is everyone's responsibility.
Safeguarding
What is safeguarding?
Safeguarding simply means keeping people safe from harm. It is about protecting children and adults from abuse or neglect. There are many different types of abuse.
Types of abuse that children can suffer include:
- physical abuse
- sexual abuse
- neglect
- emotional abuse
- domestic abuse
- bullying and cyberbullying
- child sexual exploitation
- child trafficking
- criminal exploitation and gangs
- female genital mutilation
- grooming
For more information on these types of abuse and how you can spot them, visit:
Types of abuse/neglect that adults can experience include:
- Physical abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Domestic abuse
- Psychological or emotional abuse
- Financial or material abuse
- Modern slavery
- Discriminatory abuse
- Organisational or institutional abuse
- Neglect
- Self-neglect
For more information on these types of abuse, you can visit:
Who is responsible for safeguarding?
Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. All our staff members play a role in safeguarding. Safeguarding is not just something we choose to do, it is also something we are required by law to do.
Keeping children and adults safe from abuse and neglect cannot be done by one person or one agency. At the heart of any safeguarding process is the child or adult who may be suffering abuse. We work in partnership with our patients who are, or who are at risk of, experiencing abuse as well as their families and advocates as appropriate.
We work closely with our health colleagues such as health visitors, the school nursing team, midwives, paediatricians, mental health teams and other hospital colleagues. We also work with our partner agencies locally such as child and adult social care, education and the police to ensure any child or adult suffering abuse can be supported and protected and any concerns about abuse can be properly investigated.