Our commitment to keeping everyone safe
At healhty steps, the well-being of our community is paramount. Learn about our safeguarding practices and how we protect vulnerable adults, fostering a secure environment for all.
Accessing the NHS safeguarding app
NHS England has developed the NHS Safeguarding app, which provides comprehensive information about safeguarding and a directory of safeguarding contacts for every local authority in England. You can access it via Apple iOS, Google Play, or by visiting your device’s appropriate app store and searching for ‘NHS Safeguarding’.
Our safeguarding pledge
healthy steps is committed to practices that protect vulnerable adults from harm. This policy sets out to ensure that all vulnerable adults, be they staff, volunteers, service-users or anyone else who has a connection with the charity, are protected and kept safe from harm while they are working for, volunteering for or in receipt of services from healthy steps.
Have a safeguarding concern?
If you have a safeguarding concern or require more information, please contact the chairman. We are here to help and ensure that all concerns are addressed promptly and effectively.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
we are committed to ensuring that all stroke survivors have access to high-quality peer support to help them to reclaim their lives. We believe that everyone has the right to live without fear or prejudice regardless of disability, race, gender, age, sexual orientation, social class, or religion.
We aim to nurture a culture that is based on respect and that values diversity and the great benefits that arise from being part of a diverse community and organisation. This culture runs through our work as an organisation but also through the individuals who represent our organisation.
We are passionate that equality and inclusion should not be a tick-box exercise. We actively seek to drive change where we feel it is required and are committed to continuously listen to our community on how we can further improve.
Volunteering
Volunteers are essential to the work we do to support stroke survivors and their families to reclaim their lives after stroke. Our volunteers are involved in almost all our services such as running local support groups, putting together our information packs, fundraising, advocating for younger stroke within the NHS and facilitating virtual meetings for stroke survivors. Many of our volunteers are stroke survivors or have been personally affected by stroke themselves. We have over 125 volunteers across our services and we recognise that volunteers all have something unique to offer our charity. All we ask is that you are committed and have a genuine interest in supporting stroke survivors, and their families. We work hard to ensure all our volunteers have a rewarding experience and that they are celebrated for the contribution they make.
