Safeguarding means protecting a person’s health, wellbeing and human rights – and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect.
Our Safeguarding team provides specialist advice and support on this to our staff.
What we do
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre recognises that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. All staff have a duty to identify and respond to safeguarding concerns across the Trust.
Our Safeguarding team provides specialist advice, training and support to staff on:
- Safeguarding adults
- Safeguarding children
- Domestic abuse and sexual violence
- Prevent – a national programme that aims to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism
- Mental capacity and deprivation of liberty standards (DoLS)
- Homelessness
- Preparation for liberty protection safeguards (LPS)
- Supporting a ‘Think family approach’
- Supervision for staff and volunteers
The safeguarding team work across our whole organisation (the Trust) and all geographical sites covered by The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.
We provide evidence-based training to staff and volunteers so staff can recognise and respond appropriately to safeguarding issues. We make sure that key national and local policies and statutory frameworks are implemented across the Trust, including Working Together to Safeguarding Children (2023), The Care Act (2014), and Mental Capacity Act (2005).
We work closely with partners from NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, safeguarding adults boards and safeguarding children boards.
We ensure that learning from serious case reviews and safeguarding adult reviews is reflected in our training and policies.
We share appropriate and proportionate information with partner services, in line with data-sharing legislation, when safeguarding concerns are identified.
Additional needs
We are committed to improving the experience of all people living with additional needs – including learning disabilities, autism and dementia – who access our services.
We do this by recognising and acknowledging the universal rights of the people we care for and by making our care safe, compassionate and evidence-based.
We recognise the importance of the including the people we care for, their families, and carers to help shape the care we provide.
We ensure the NHS learning disability standards are embedded across our organisation.
The Additional Needs Practitioner provides support, advice and guidance to staff providing care for people with learning disabilities, autism and dementia.
Our team
Executive Lead
Julie Gray – Chief Nurse
Safeguarding Lead
Lindsey Dawson – Deputy Chief Nurse
Team roles are:
- Named Nurse for Safeguarding
- Named Doctor for Safeguarding
- Safeguarding Practitioner – Prevent Lead
- Practitioner for Additional Needs
The Safeguarding team provides advice and support from 9:00am to 5:00pm (09:00-17:00), Monday to Friday.
Contact details
Call 0151 318 8668
Further information
Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Gov.uk)