Safeguarding

Please contact our Safeguarding Department, safeguarding@salvationamy.org.uk or 020 7367 4767, to report concerns related to The Salvation Army.

Alternatively, please speak to your local Salvation Army leader who can help you report your concern. Find your nearest Salvation Army.

Contact your local Salvation Army leader, Deputy Safeguarding Lead or Divisional Safeguarding Officer.  These details should be available on the Safeguarding Contacts poster in your local Salvation Army setting, or contact the Territorial Safeguarding Department, safeguarding@salvationamy.org.uk or 020 7367 4767.

It is never too late to report abuse you experienced should you choose to do so. You can report abuse to the police no matter how long ago it happened by calling 101. They'll make sure you're put through to the right team who can support you.

You can also contact The Salvation Army’s Safeguarding Department safeguarding@salvationarmy.org.uk or 020 7367 4767. We will respond promptly and professionally to all safeguarding concerns and reports of abuse.

We are committed to protecting children by:

• Ensuring that the child’s welfare is and always will be the paramount consideration as everyone has a right to be protected from abuse and neglect
• Providing a safe environment with leaders that adhere to good safeguarding practice
• Empowering children to ‘have a voice’ by actively encouraging them to think about how to keep themselves safe and how to protect themselves and their peers from harmful or inappropriate behaviour shown by adults or other children
• Offering informed pastoral care to those affected by abuse
• Ensuring that children and parents/carers are informed of The Salvation Army policy and procedures as appropriate
• Taking all allegations of abuse seriously and responding without delay by reporting to the police or statutory authorities as required.

Other safeguarding organisations:

NSPCC
(National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children)    
0808 800 5000
www.nspcc.org.uk 

ChildLine    
0800 11 11  
www.childline.org.uk

We are committed to protecting adults by:

• Providing a safe environment which promotes emotional well-being and where protection from abuse is of vital importance
• Empowering adults to ‘have a voice’, to have access to information and to support them in their decisions
• Offering informed pastoral care to those affected by abuse
• Challenging the abuse of power and position
• Taking all allegations of abuse seriously, responding without delay and reporting to the police or statutory authorities as required.

Other safeguarding organisations:

Action on Elder Abuse    
0808 808 8141    
www.elderabuse.org.uk 

Age UK
0800 169 2081
www.ageuk.org.uk

The Silver Line    
0800 470 8090    
www.thesilverline.org.uk