SAFEGUARDING ADULTS AND CHILDREN POLICY STATEMENT

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Home at Peace Ltd operates a zero-tolerance policy toward all forms of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and improper treatment. As a regulated domiciliary care provider, our primary mandate is to protect the safety, human rights, and well-being of the service users we support within the community, spanning both adults and children.

We are committed to a proactive, person-centred approach to safeguarding that prioritizes prevention, early identification, and swift multi-agency reporting.

Our Statutory and Regulatory Commitments

To ensure absolute compliance with UK care standards, this policy statement framework aligns directly with:

  • The Care Act 2014: Safeguarding adults at risk of harm or neglect
  • The Children Act 1989 & 2004: Duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
  • Working Together to Safeguard Children: Core multi-agency statutory guidance.
  • CQC Regulation 13 (Health and Social Care Act 2008): Ensuring service users are protected from abuse, discrimination, and improper treatment.
  • Local Authority Frameworks: Active partnership with local Safeguarding Adults Boards (SAB) and Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs (MASH).

Core Safeguarding Principles

Every employee, agency worker, and volunteer at Home at Peace Ltd must operate in accordance with the six core principles of the Care Act:

  • Empowerment: Supporting individuals to make their own choices with informed consent regarding safety.
  • Prevention: Taking immediate action to stop or mitigate harm before it occurs.
  • Proportionality: Ensuring any safety intervention is the least intrusive response appropriate to the risk.
  • Protection: Delivering robust support and advocacy to those in greatest need.
  • Partnership: Working transparently with local authorities, the NHS, the Police, and families.
  • Accountability: Maintaining clear, timestamped audit trails of all concerns, actions, and external referrals.

Our Vetting and Staff Expectations

Because domiciliary care is delivered independently inside the service user’s private residence, we enforce a strict Safer Recruitment Policy. No employee is permitted out in the field without an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check (including Adult and Child Barred List checks), verified photographic identification, an audited employment history, and two verified professional references.

All staff are legally and contractually obligated to be alert to the signs of physical, sexual, emotional, financial, and organizational abuse, as well as domestic violence, modern slavery, and self-neglect.

Mandatory Reporting Mandate

Any member of the Home at Peace Ltd team who witnesses, suspects, or receives a disclosure of abuse must execute immediate protection measures and alert the Registered Manager within the shift.

The Registered Manager will formally escalate all qualifying concerns to the relevant Local Authority Safeguarding Team and submit a mandatory statutory notification to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) within 24 hours.