If you are concerned that someone is in immediate risk of harm you should contact emergency services on 999 or contact Campus Safety on 01904 32 3333 or via the SafeZone app.
The University of York is legally obliged and committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people under 18 and adults at risk who access its activities or services.
What is Safeguarding?
‘Safeguarding means protecting people's health, wellbeing and human rights, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect’. Care Quality Commission 2022.
Legal safeguarding duties apply to all children and young people under 18.
Legal safeguarding duties further apply to an adult at risk. An adult at risk is someone aged 18 years or over 'who is, or may be, in need of community care services by reason of mental ill health or other disability, age or illness; and who is or may be unable to take care of him or herself, or unable to protect him or herself against significant harm or exploitation’. Safeguarding Adults NHS England
Safeguarding concerns can include, but are not limited to;
- Physical abuse
- Domestic violence or abuse
- Psychological or emotional abuse
- Financial or material abuse
- Risk of radicalisation (including environments that promote or spread radicalising ideologies)
- Modern slavery
- Discriminatory abuse
- Organisational or institutional abuse
- Neglect or acts of omission
- Self-neglect
You can find out more about the University of York's approach to safeguarding on the University of York Safeguarding webpage and in the University of York Safeguarding Policy
Report a safeguarding concern
To raise a safeguarding concern, click the button below.
This provides a central location to raise Safeguarding concerns. The information submitted is received by members of staff with Safeguarding responsibilities, read and responded to within two working days.
It is not your responsibility to investigate, make judgement or provide a response to safeguarding matters. If you have a concern, simply follow the safeguarding process for guidance on what to do.
