Optometry Safeguarding Guide

What does Safeguarding mean?

Safeguarding means protecting people’s health, wellbeing and human rights, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. It’s fundamental to high-quality health and social care (Safeguarding people – Care Quality Commission (cqc.org.uk)). Therefore, the safeguarding of babies, children, young people and adults is a key part of all the work that we all undertake in providing health services.

Key steps

• Identify and recognise signs of abuse and/or neglect.
• Act on signs of abuse and/or neglect.

FULL GUIDANCE AND ADVIICE HERE