Safeguarding Team Details
Reference: 25-26081
Date response sent: 04/06/2025
Details of enquiry
- Does your Trust provide mental health services for:
a. Adults (18+)?
b. Children and adolescents (under 18)?
2. Please provide a brief overview of the services provided to Adults
3. Please provide a brief overview of services provided to Children
4. Please provide the number current number of employees
5. Please provide your organisations safeguarding team structure, including Executive, Named Dr’s, all statutory and non-statutory roles and admin support including:
a. Job titles (specifying adults and or children), MCA and Prevent etc
b. Please include Grade
6. Whether the safeguarding function is managed centrally or across individual service areas
7. What the safeguarding team duties include
8. Do you provide Looked After Children services?
9. Who is the lead for implementing sexual safety? (job title and directorate)
10. Who is the lead for managing allegations against staff? (job title and directorate)
11. Who manages the child protection invites i.e. centrally, operational teams, safeguarding etc?
12. Total number of Safeguarding Adult referrals made to the local authority per quarter from Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
a. Total number of referrals by Care Act category of abuse per quarter from Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
b. Total Number of Prevent Referral Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
c. Total Number of Allegations against staff referred to the local authority between April 2024 to March 2025
d. Total Number of allegations against staff managed internally between April 2024 and March 2025
13. Referrals by Children Act category of abuse per quarter from Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
a. Total Number of Children Early Help referrals per quarter from Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
b. Total Number of Prevent Referrals Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
c. Total Number of Allegations against staff referred to the LADO between April 2024 to March 2025
d. Total Number of allegations against staff managed internally between April 2024 and March 2025
14. Total % of engagement (attendance or report) with Children protection Initial Case Conferences per Quarter Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
a. Please clarify the % proportion of attendance per quarter
b. Please clarity the % proportion of reports send instead of attendance
c. Total % of engagement with Review Child Protection Conferences per Quarter
d. Please clarify the % proportion of attendance per quarter
e. Please clarity the % proportion of reports send instead of attendance
15. Total Number of DHR’s which the organisation has contributed to April 2024 to March 2025
a. Themes of DHR’s in this time frame
16. Total Number of SAR’s which the organisation has contributed to April 2024 to March 2025
a. Themes of the SAR’s in this time frame
17. Total Number of Rapid Reviews which the organisation has contributed to April 2024 to March 2025
a. Themes of the RR in this time Frame
18. Do you delivery DASH training? Are your trainers accredited?
19. Please provide training compliance as of Q4 2025 for the below:
a. Children Safeguarding Level 1
b. Children Safeguarding Level 2
c. Children Safeguarding Level 3
d. Adults Safeguarding Level 1
e. Adults Safeguarding Level 2
f. Adults Safeguarding Level 3
g. Prevent
h. MCA
Response sent
- Does your Trust provide mental health services for:
a. Adults (18+)?
Yes
b. Children and adolescents (under 18)?
Yes
- Please provide a brief overview of the services provided to Adults
A listing of all the Trust’s services for Adults, Children and Young People is publicly available on our website, and may be reached here: https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/services/
- Please provide a brief overview of services provided to Children
Please see our response to Question 2 above
- Please provide the number current number of employees
819 staff as at April 2025
- Please provide your organisations safeguarding team structure, including Executive, Named Dr’s, all statutory and non-statutory roles and admin support including:
a. Job titles (specifying adults and or children), MCA and Prevent etc
b. Please include Grade
| Item | a. Job Title | b. Band |
| 1 | Named Dr for Safeguarding – Consultant Psychiatrist | Consultant Grate |
| 2 | Safeguarding Adult and Prevent Lead | 8b |
| 3 | Safeguarding Children Lead | 8c |
| 4 | Patient Safety Officer | 6 |
| 5 | Adult Services Lead | 8c |
| 6 | Children & Families Service Lead | 8c |
| 7 | CLA Team Lead | 8c |
- Whether the safeguarding function is managed centrally or across individual service areas
Historically safeguarding was managed within individual services, We are now working towards managing our safeguarding activity centrally so that reporting, recording, monitoring and oversight can be more easily achieved by the safeguarding team.
- What the safeguarding team duties include
a. We provide advice, guidance and support to staff to recognise, respond and report safeguarding concerns via regular quarterly safeguarding supervision and “Ad-Hoc” supervision.
b. Responsible for providing quarterly and annual reports, analysing themes/risks
c. identify and facilitate
d. Identify safeguarding training needs and delivery of F2F Level
e. Attending local Safeguarding Partnership Board meetings and sub groups and supporting initiatives in the promotion of safeguarding children and adults at risk
f. Writing/updating and reviewing policy in line with national and local legislation
g. To advise and co-ordinate policy development and implementation,
h. Implementation of processes that improve our safeguarding work such as CP-IS
i. To monitor, audit and evaluate internal and multi-disciplinary child protection practice.
j. Share learning from SARs and CSPR’s via training and safeguarding supervision
k. To work collaboratively with senior leaders and wider staff body to lead on key areas of safeguarding
l. To provide professional and strategic leadership for the Trust in all safeguarding matters
8. Do you provide Looked After Children services?
Yes
- Who is the lead for implementing sexual safety? (job title and directorate)
The Head of People (Business Partnering and Employee Relations), People Directorate
- Who is the lead for managing allegations against staff? (job title and directorate)
The Medical Director/ Named Dr for Safeguarding/ Executive Lead for Safeguarding (Corporate)
- Who manages the child protection invites i.e. centrally, operational teams, safeguarding etc?
This is managed within teams currently but with the aim of bringing ICPC/RCPC invites centrally to the Safeguarding Children Team and working alongside clinicians responsible for children on their caseloads subject to CPP or who are ‘Looked After’
- Total number of Safeguarding Adult referrals made to the local authority per quarter from Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
The data you have requested for the year 2024/25 is presented in the table/s below, where we have masked low numbers with the symbol ‘≤5’, which indicates where numbers are equal to 5 or less than 5. The Trust follows the NHS England standard, established to not provide exact data where the numbers are smaller than 6 as this may lead to identification of individuals.
The Trust has engaged exemption from releasing exact low numbers in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) Section 40(2) (Information which constitutes the personal data of any person other than the applicant, where disclosure would not be permitted under GDPR, thereby breaching GDPR Principle (a): Lawfulness, fairness and transparency.
As this is an absolute exemption, we do not have to apply the Public Interest Test when engaging this exemption
The Trust recognises a high level of interest from public in how the public purse has been spent on services, and must balance this against disclosure of any small numbers and the year in which these instances occurred, which – whilst not directly identifying individuals, would nevertheless give rise to a disclosure of personal data, as follows:
- Although the year alone is not personal data, we have also to consider whether other information that is already available, or may become available, to any member of the public, could be combined with the data requested so as to enable identification of the individual(s) concerned.
- There is a high chance of recognition/identification of particular individuals/patients by members of the public, and/or fellow patients/colleagues from the low numbers.
- This masking of low numbers is not a just a question of considering the means reasonably likely to be used by general public, but also the means likely to be used by a determined person with a particular reason to want to identify individuals from data released into the public domain now or in the future, and/or gained from other sources.
a. Total number of referrals by Care Act category of abuse per quarter from Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
| Safeguarding Children. Referrals to LA by Care Act Abuse Category | Safeguarding Adults. Referrals to LA by Care Act Abuse Category | |||
| Q1 2024-25 | 6 | Q1 2024-25 | 0 | |
| Q2 2024-25 | 14 | Q2 2024-25 | ≤5 | |
| Q3 2024-25 | 9 | Q3 2024-25 | 0 | |
| Q4 2024-25 | 24 | Q4 2024-25 | 0 | |
| Total for FY 2024-25 | 53 | Total for FY 2024-25 | ≤5 | |
b. Total Number of Prevent Referral Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
| Prevent Children Referrals | Prevent Adult Referrals
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| Q1 2024-25 | 0 | Q1 2024-25 | 0 | |
| Q2 2024-25 | 0 | Q2 2024-25 | 0 | |
| Q3 2024-25 | 0 | Q3 2024-25 | ≤5 | |
| Q4 2024-25 | ≤5 | Q4 2024-25 | 0 | |
| Total for FY 2024-25 | ≤5 | Total for FY 2024-25 | ≤5 | |
c. Total Number of Allegations against staff referred to the local authority between April 2024 to March 2025
| Children Safeguarding-Allegations against Staff Reported to LA. | Adults Safeguarding
Allegations against Staff Reported to LA |
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| Q1 2024-25 | 0 | Q1 2024-25 | 0 | |
| Q2 2024-25 | ≤5 | Q2 2024-25 | 0 | |
| Q3 2024-25 | ≤5 | Q3 2024-25 | ≤5 | |
| Q4 2024-25 | 0 | Q4 2024-25 | 0 | |
| Total for FY 2024-25 | ≤5 | Total for FY 2024-25 | ≤5 | |
d. Total Number of allegations against staff managed internally between April 2024 and March 2025
| Children Safeguarding-Allegations against Staff Managed Internally | Adults Safeguarding
Allegations against Staff Managed Internally |
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| Q1 2024-25 | 0 | Q1 2024-25 | ≤5 | |
| Q2 2024-25 | 0 | Q2 2024-25 | 0 | |
| Q3 2024-25 | ≤5 | Q3 2024-25 | 0 | |
| Q4 2024-25 | 0 | Q4 2024-25 | 0 | |
| Total for FY 2024-25 | ≤5 | Total for FY 2024-25 | ≤5 | |
- Referrals by Children Act category of abuse per quarter from Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
| Physical Abuse | Emotional Abuse | Neglect | Sexual Abuse | |
| Q1 | ≤5 | ≤5 | ≤5 | ≤5 |
| Q2 | ≤5 | 6 | ≤5 | ≤5 |
| Q3 | ≤5 | ≤5 | ≤5 | ≤5 |
| Q4 | ≤5 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
| Total | 11 | 16 | 13 | 6 |
a. Total Number of Children Early Help referrals per quarter from Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
b. Total Number of Prevent Referrals Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
c. Total Number of Allegations against staff referred to the LADO between April 2024 to March 2025
d. Total Number of allegations against staff managed internally between April 2024 and March 2025
| Referrals by Children Act category of Abuse | ||||
| Qtr/Financial year | Children Early Help Referrals | Prevent Referrals | Allegations against staff referred to LADO | Allegations against staff managed internally * |
| Q1 2024-25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Q2 2024-25 | 0 | 0 | ≤5 | 0 |
| Q3 2024-25 | ≤5 | 0 | ≤5 | ≤5 |
| Q4 2024-25 | ≤5 | ≤5 | 0 | 0 |
| Total for FY 2024-25 | 7 | ≤5 | ≤5 | ≤5 |
* which involved the Children Safeguarding Lead.
- Total % of engagement (attendance or report) with Children protection Initial Case Conferences per Quarter Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025. Please clarify the
a. % proportion of attendance per quarter
b. Please clarity the % proportion of reports send instead of attendance
c. Total % of engagement with Review Child Protection Conferences per Quarter
d. Please clarify the % proportion of attendance per quarter
e. Please clarity the % proportion of reports send instead of attendance
| % Engagement (attendance/report) with Children protection Initial Case Conferences | % Engagement (attendance/report) with Review Child protection Conferences | |||||
| Qtr/ Financial year | Total % of engagement (attendance or report) with Children protection Initial Case Conferences | a. % attendance per quarter | b. % Reports sent instead of attending | c. % engagement with Review Child Protection Conferences | d. % of attendance | e. % of reports sent instead of attendance |
| Q1 2024-25 | NK | Not known | Not known | Not known | Not known | Not known |
| Q2 2024-25 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Q3 2024-25 | 100% | 67% | 33% | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Q4 2024-25 | 50% | 25% | 25% | 50% | 20% | 0% |
- Total Number of DHR’s which the organisation has contributed to April 2024 to March 2025
Nil
a. Themes of DHR’s in this time frame
Not applicable
- Total Number of SAR’s which the organisation has contributed to April 2024 to March 2025
a. Themes of the SAR’s in this time frame
Not applicable. See above response.
- Total Number of Rapid Reviews which the organisation has contributed to April 2024 to March 2025
4
a. Themes of the RR in this time Frame
Suicide
- Do you delivery DASH training? Are your trainers accredited?
No we do not deliver DASH training
- Please provide training compliance as of Q4 2025 for the below:
| SafeguardingTraining Compliance
as at Q4 2024/25 |
|
| Adults Safeguarding Level 1 | 84% |
| Adults Safeguarding Level 2 | 74% |
| Adults Safeguarding Level 3 | 78% |
| Children Safeguarding Level 1 | 84% |
| Children Safeguarding Level 2 | 89% |
| Children Safeguarding Level 3 | 69% |
| PREVENT L1 | 83% |
| PREVENT L3 | 68% |
| MCA | 75% |