Useful Safeguarding links
If you are concerned about a child
Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Children’s Partnership
Buckinghamshire Children’s Safeguarding Partnership - Reporting a concern
Online Safety information for parents
TAP - Technology and Play - Exploring play and creativity in pre-schoolers’ use of apps
Personal Safety
HollieGuard is an app that can track a person’s location as they make their way home, as they’re out jogging or cycling, or simply going about their day to day tasks.
If they feel unsafe, all they need to do is shake their phone to send an alert to a group of contacts to warn them that they may be in danger. Once the phone has been shook, it will then start recording both audio and visual footage of what’s happening around them.
This will be saved and sent to their contacts so they can see what is happening, and call the police or ambulance service if they are required.
If the phone is shook again, a flashing light and high-pitched beeping will start coming from the phone to alert people nearby that that person may be in danger.
Key features of the app include:
• Journey - Allows a person to safely and confidently travel, by providing their emergency contacts with real-time updates of their movements as they move between two places.
• Meeting - This function allows the person to identify when they are going to a potentially dangerous meeting or working alone. An alert will automatically be created if the timer expires or they do not cancel the meeting.
• Man Down - Man Down will send an alert to a dedicated contacts to make them aware if a person hasn’t moved in a while. The app will flag sudden non-movement and impact, for example if someone has been assaulted or fallen down.
• Duress Pin - If a person is being forced to cancel an alert they can enter the Duress Pin of 9999. The alert will appear to have been cancelled, but will remain active on HollieGuard’s secure server, so they will know the person has been forced to cancel an alert.
The app has been designed to get help in situations of domestic violence, assault and crimes outside the home, child safety when outside the home and injury.
HolliGuard app link
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Support Websites
Refuge (Advice on dealing with domestic violence)
Alcoholics Anonymous (A free self-help group. Its "12 step" programme involves getting sober with the help of regular face-to-face and online support groups)
Cruse Bereavement Care (Bereavement Support)
Frank (Free, confidential information and advice about drugs, their effects and the law. FRANK's live chat service runs daily from 2pm to 6pm.)
Gamblers Anonymous (A free self-help group. Its "12 step" programme involves stopping gambling with the help of regular face-to-face and online support groups)
Relate (The UK's largest provider of relationship support)