Overview
At Yuvanis Foundation, we are fully committed to supporting parents and families in order to keep children safe. We know that parenting can be hard at times and there are circumstances where you may feel you need some extra help. Please see some information pages below for additional support that you can access:
What is abuse and neglect?
Physical Abuse may involve the following:
- Hitting
- Shaking
- Throwing
- Poisoning
- Burning
- Scalding
- Drowning
- Suffocating
Sexual Abuse is a child being made to watch or being subjected to acts of a sexual nature.
Emotional Abuse is defined as ‘Persistent emotional maltreatment of a child, such as to cause severe and persistent adverse effects on the child’s emotional development’. This may involve ‘Conveying to children that they are worthless, unloved, inadequate, or valued only in so far as they meet the needs of another person’.
- Age or developmentally inappropriate expectations
- Over protection, limitation of exploration and learning, preventing in the child participating in normal, social interaction
- The exploitation or corruption of children
- Seeing or hearing the ill-treatment of another
Neglect is the persistent failure to meet a child’s basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the child’s health or development. School has a responsibility to report safeguarding concerns. This may be a child witnessing inappropriate actions or materials. If there are concerns raised about your child, where possible we will always endeavour to speak to the parents or carers first. However, in serious cases, the matter would be escalated to the appropriate agency without informing parents.
If you are worried about the safety of a child then, in the first instance, you should contact the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) and ask to speak to the Duty Officer on 0161 770 7777. Please also see our section on how to report a concern.
Domestic violence
Saheli
Saheli Asian Women’s Project provides advice, information and support services to Asian women and their children fleeing domestic abuse and/or forced marriages and is based in Manchester.
0161 945 4187 Advice and support (9am-5pm Mon to Fri)
Download their support leaflets in Arabic, Bangla, Engilsh, Gujarati, Punjabi and Urdu: click here
Refuge
24/7 national helpline for women and children against domestic violence.
0808 2000 247
NHS
Domestic violence and abuse information: www.nhs.uk/live-well/getting-help-for-domestic-violence/
Greater Manchester Domestic Abuse Helpline
Manchester Women’s Aid work closely with Independent Choices, a charity who run the GM Helpline. You can contact their advisers on:
0161 636 7525 (Open times: Monday to Friday 10:00 – 16:00) or on their website here
E-safety and how to keep safe online
At Yuvanis Foundation the safety of our children is of upmost importance. This includes keeping them safe when using electronic equipment and more specifically when entering the online world. E-Safety encompasses internet technologies and also electronic communications via mobile phones, games consoles and wireless technology. By educating our children in e-safety we aim to highlight the need for children and young people to think practically about the benefits, risks and responsibilities of using information technology.
We operate an open-door policy for reporting issues relating to e-safety and very much welcome parents and carers to come into our centre to speak with a member of staff about any perceived problems.
For additional support and information, please visit this page for useful online safety newsletters.
Parents and Carers can visit the Childnet website for support and advice for safe use of the internet at home.
Children can visit the Kidsmart website to learn how to use the internet safely at home.
Child sexual exploitation
Child Sexual Exploitation, or CSE, is a form of sexual abuse which sees children/young people being manipulated or coerced into sexual activity for receiving ‘something’ such as; gifts, money, food, attention, somewhere to stay etc.
Technology is very often used to groom victims. This may occur through social networking sites and mobile phones with internet access.
CSE has gained a large amount of media attention over the last year as lots of services involved with children and young people have noticed a big rise in cases involving CSE.
Charities such as NSPCC and Barnardos have been campaigning to raise the profile of this form of child abuse. Information regarding CSE can be found here on their websites below:
Other useful links
There are some useful links below which give lots of detailed information and fun activities that you and your children can enjoy and learn from:
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/ NSPCC
Free and confidential information and guidance for parents, carers, professionals and families.
https://www.childline.org.uk
ChildLine – Free, confidential support for children.
http://greatermanchesterscb.proceduresonline.com
Greater Manchester Safeguarding Partnership – Safeguarding Children Procedures Manual for professionals in Greater Manchester
https://www.olsb.org
Oldham Safeguarding Board. Free information regarding safeguarding children and how to report a concern.
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk
Child exploitation & Online Protection – to build knowledge of how to stay safe online. This website has lots of fun activities from which children can gain vital information on staying safe.