The Safeguarding Children Service consist of four Safeguarding Children Teams. Our practitioners are all qualified nurses and have backgrounds such as health visiting, school nursing, youth offending health and as such can provide advice and expertise on wide ranging safeguarding concerns.
We provide support via our Trust Wide Safeguarding Duty Hub where you can access instant safeguarding advice, support and case consultation.
The safeguarding children teams also offer Safeguarding Supervision, if you would like to arrange supervision please contact the team and we can make arrangements with you.
We also offer training, this is in form of the modular training packages that we update and change each year – Please see the Safeguarding Training pages for more information. We can also support your teams with specific training needs you identify within your service.
Types of abuse
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. Neglect may occur during pregnancy as a result of maternal substance abuse for example.
Once a child is born, neglect may involve a parent or carer failing to:
- Provide adequate food, clothing and shelter (including exclusion from home or abandonment)
- Protect a child from physical and emotional harm or danger
- Ensure adequate supervision (including the use of inadequate care-givers)
- Ensure access to appropriate medical care or treatment.
It may also include neglect of, or unresponsiveness to, a child's basic emotional needs.
Physical abuse may involve hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning or scalding, drowning, suffocating, or otherwise causing physical harm to a child. Physical harm may also be caused when a parent or carer fabricates the symptoms of, or deliberately induces, illness in a child.
Emotional abuse is the persistent emotional maltreatment of a child such as to cause severe and persistent adverse effects on the child’s emotional development. It may involve conveying to children that they are worthless or unloved, inadequate, or valued only insofar as they meet the needs of another person. It may include not giving the child opportunities to express their views, deliberately silencing them or ‘making fun’ of what they say or how they communicate.
It may feature age or developmentally inappropriate expectations being imposed on children. These may include interactions that are beyond the child’s developmental capability, as well as overprotection and limitation of exploration and learning, or preventing the child participating in normal social interaction. It may involve seeing or hearing the ill-treatment of another.
It may involve serious bullying (including cyber bullying), causing children frequently to feel frightened or in danger, or the exploitation or corruption of children.
Some level of emotional abuse is involved in all types of maltreatment of a child, though it may also occur alone.
Sexual abuse involves forcing or enticing a child to take part in sexual activities, not necessarily involving a high level of violence, whether or not the child is aware of what is happening. The activities may involve physical contact, including assault by penetration (for example, rape or oral sex) or non-penetrative acts such as masturbation, kissing, rubbing and touching outside clothing.
Sexual abuse may also include non-contact activities, such as involving children in looking at, or in the production of, sexual images, watching sexual activities, encouraging children to behave in sexually inappropriate ways, or grooming a child in preparation for abuse (including via the internet).
Sexual abuse is not solely perpetrated by adult males. Women can also commit acts of sexual abuse, as can other children. Sexual abuse can occur both outside and within the home.
Contextual Safeguarding is an approach that aims to keep children safe from harm outside home. The approach involves healthcare professionals, youth workers, teachers and social workers to bus drivers, shopkeepers and park wardens working together with children to create safer contexts for young people. Contextual Safeguarding considers intervening in and increasing safety in three contexts: at school, with friends and peers and in their neighbourhood.
The Safeguarding Children Service consist of four Safeguarding Children Teams
Safeguarding Children Knowsley and St Helens Community Health Services
Clare Handley - Named Nurse Safeguarding Children
Michelle Angel – Webb - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Amber Blackmore - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Kelley Hayde - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Sefton Community Health Services
Barry Greene – Named Nurse Safeguarding Children
Sarah Early - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Mandy Howe - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Kerry Woolvine - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Sue Barrett – MASH - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Debs Dobson – MASH - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Liverpool Community Health Services
Jenny Hughes – Doyle – Named Nurse Safeguarding Children
Lisa Beckitt Quinn - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Gill Bolan - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Amanda Crayden - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Julie Eaton - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Kate Lindo - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Michelle McElhinney - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Helen Mollard-Davies - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Julie O’Brien - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Ann Quinn - Safeguarding Children Specialist Nurse
Nerys Edwards - MASH Health
Lorraine Bulger - MASH Health
Nicky Curtis - MASH Health
Mental Health Care Division
Lauren Whyte – Named Nurse Safeguarding Children
Karen Dobson – Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Elizabeth Graves – Advanced Nurse Practitioner