explain what is meant by safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults Policy 1 Definition The safeguarding and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults can be defined as protecting such groups from physical, emotional or sexual abuse or neglect.arm is defined as ill-treatment or the impairment of health or development, including, for example, impairment suffered from seeing or hearing the ill-treatment of another. 3.4 There are four categories of abuse: emotional, neglect, physical, and sexual in relation to a child or vulnerable adult.