Appendix two: safeguarding model
The term safeguarding is broader than child
and adult protection. In its broadest meaning
safeguarding has a significant preventative
component and means protecting and
promoting people’s human rights. It is about
enabling people to live everyday lives, free from
abuse.
It relates to the actions taken to promote,
enhance and protect a person’s including:
•
life outcomes
•
human rights
•
decision making, choice and control
•
safety, wellbeing and culture
•
citizenship, and quality of life.
PROTECT
AN RIGH
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Decision Making
Choice & Control
PROMOTE
Citizenship &
Quality of Life
Safety &
Wellbeing
ENHANCE
THE PERSON
(and their culture)
Personal
Relationships
(family, whānau, other)
Community
Community and
Disability Services
Systems
The Safeguarding Framework has three
Focus Areas:
1. Being Aware
2. Being Heard
3. Being Responsive
The Focus Areas are designed to establish
a common understanding and consistent
approach to:
•
promote, enhance and protect the
rights of disabled people, and
•
safeguard people against abuse.
The human rights and individual
outcomes that safeguards aim to uphold
are described further in the CRPD.
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