In November 2020, Life Without Barriers established the National Safeguarding Unit (NSU) by bringing together different functions from across the organisation for the purpose of strengthening our approach to safeguarding.
Although the expectation of safeguarding the rights of all people we support rests with all staff, the NSU has dedicated oversight and monitoring of all safeguarding systems and practices by providing nationally consistent functions for notifiable incidents, restrictive practices, complaints, Official Community Visitor reports, safeguarding initiatives and requests for information from external bodies.
The NSU focuses on creating a safeguarding culture and practices, based on the fundamental human rights of equality, safety and dignity for all the people we support, whilst recognising the unique rights of people with a disability and children.
