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Ghausia Homes

Safeguarding

Raising a safeguarding concern

Keeping young people safe comes before everything else we do, including how this organisation looks. If you are worried about a young person, please act on it today.

Non-emergency concerns

Where to take a concern that is not an emergency

Safeguarding responsibility for a young person sits with the local authority responsible for them, working with local safeguarding partners.

Contact the responsible local authority
Ask for children's services or the multi-agency safeguarding hub for the area the young person lives in, or the authority that holds responsibility for them. Every local authority publishes a daytime number and an out-of-hours emergency duty service.
If you are a professional
Follow your own organisation's safeguarding procedure and your local safeguarding partnership's referral route. Speak to your designated safeguarding lead if you are unsure.
If you are a young person
Tell an adult you trust — a member of staff, your social worker or your personal adviser. You can also read information written for you, which explains your rights and how to speak up.
Police, non-emergency
Call 101 to report a concern that is not an emergency.

Our approach

How safeguarding will work at Ghausia Homes

Our safeguarding policy is being completed as part of preparing the service. We will publish it here in full once it is approved, rather than summarising a document that is not finished.

What we can say now is how we intend to behave: concerns are acted on, not managed away; young people are told what will happen with what they have said; and professionals hear about a problem from us early rather than late.

Our commitment to honest reporting with local authorities is described in our support model.

Service in development

Ghausia Homes is not yet operating and no young people live with us. If your concern relates to a young person, please use the local authority route above — it is the fastest way to reach someone who can act.