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How can you protect yourself from harassment and abuse?

How can you protect yourself from harassment and abuse?

If you’re worried about abuse, there are things you can do to reduce the risk.

  1. Stay in touch with your friends and neighbours if you can.
  2. Go for regular check-ups.
  3. If you’re finding it difficult to manage in your daily life, ask your council for a free care needs assessment.

How can a girl protect herself?

Be loud to intimidate the attacker and create attention in case somebody is nearby.

  1. Hammer strike. Using your car keys is one of the easiest ways to defend yourself.
  2. Groin kick.
  3. Heel palm strike.
  4. Elbow strike.
  5. Alternative elbow strikes.
  6. Escape from a ‘bear hug attack’
  7. Escape with hands trapped.
  8. Escape from side headlock.

When there is a concern that a child is suffering harm than a referral is made to?

When there are concerns about Significant Harm to a child, the referral must be made immediately by telephone to the MASH – see Section 5, Contact the MASH, followed up by completion of the online Worried About a Child Form. The greater the level of perceived risk, the more urgent the action should be.

What makes a good referral to social care?

This means that referrers must share: All known details of the child, including name, date of birth, family members and address; Any known aliases of adults in family/household; Why exactly the case is being referred, e.g. the child is in need of protection, the child may be at risk of Significant Harm.

Which two of the following are ways in which you can help to reduce the likelihood of abuse?

Ways to reduce likelihood of abuse The likelihood of abuse can be reduced by: working with person-centred values, promoting empowerment, managing risk, and prevention. Empowerment means letting people as far as possible, make their own decisions and be in charge of their own safety.

How can you protect yourself from exploitation?

REMEMBER– there are a number of ways that you can protect yourself online from being exploited:

  1. Turn settings (including location settings) on social media accounts to private so that people you are not friends with can’t see your posts or your location.
  2. Don’t add people that you don’t know on any social media account.
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