🛡️ Safer Leeds – Help to Keep You Safe 

Safer Leeds is a group of organisations (like Leeds City Council, the NHS, and the police) working together to help people in Leeds: 

  • Be safe 
  • Feel safe 
  • Get help when needed 

🌐 Visit the Safer Leeds Website 

 👮 Safeguarding – Protecting Adults and Children 

Safeguarding means protecting people from harm, abuse, or neglect. In Leeds, professionals (health workers, police, social workers) work together in 2 groups: 

  • 🧓 Leeds Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB) 
  • 🧒 Leeds Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP) 

📞 Who to Contact If You Are Worried

🔸 Adults (Emergency Services): 

  • ☎️ 0113 222 4401 (Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri: 9am–5pm | Wed: 10am–5pm) 

🔸 Emergency Duty Team (EDT): 

For urgent help when the office is closed: 

Opening hours: 

  • Mon–Thurs: 5pm–8am 
  • Fri: from 4:30pm 
  • Weekends: All day 
  • Bank Holidays: From 5pm before the holiday until 8am after 

If someone is in danger: 📞 999 

🔗 LSAB – Services for Adults at Risk 

 👶 Children – Help and Protection 

The Duty and Advice Team helps if a child is at risk. 

  • ☎️ 0113 222 4403 (Contact Centre) 
  • 📞 If the child is in immediate danger: 999 
  • 🔗 Visit the LSCP Website 

Includes information on: 

  • Signs of abuse or exploitation 
  • Online safety 
  • Playing outside safely 
  • When it’s safe to leave children alone 

 🏠 Domestic Abuse or Violence 

This can be: 

  • Psychological (mental) 
  • Physical (hitting, pushing) 
  • Sexual 
  • Financial (controlling money) 
  • Emotional 

Leeds Domestic Violence Service, They offer: 

 ✋ Hate Incidents or Hate Crime 

A hate incident is when someone is abusive to you because of your: 

  • Disability 
  • Race 
  • Religion 
  • Gender identity (trans) 
  • Sexual orientation 

Examples: 

  • Name calling 
  • Violence or threats 
  • Graffiti 
  • Abuse on social media 
  • Property damage 

📞 How to Report: 

If you don’t want to speak to police: You can report it to Stop Hate UK, an independent organisation working to challenge hate crime and discrimination.

  • 🖥️ Online
  • 📱 App or text
  • ☎️ 0808 801 0661  

🔗 Stop Hate UK – Support in Different Languages
🔗 Stop Hate UK – Reporting a Hate Crime
🔗 Local Support List 

 Trafficking and Modern Slavery 

Trafficking is a modern form of slavery and involves being transported into the UK, or around the UK and exploited. You may be forced into manual work such as construction, or working in people’s homes, or forced into having sex.  You may: 

  • Not get paid 
  • Be kept in bad conditions 
  • Be afraid or threatened 

You did nothing wrong. You can get help. 

 💔 Sexual Assault and Rape 

This is when someone touches you sexually or forces you to have sex without your permission. Not all cases of sexual assault involve violence, cause physical injury or leave visible marks. Sexual assault can cause severe distress, emotional harm and injuries which can’t be seen. All rape and sexual assault cases are very serious. 

Support After Rape & Sexual Violence Leeds (SARSVL), Helps women and girls with:

  • Helpline 
  • Counselling 
  • Advocacy (support with other services) 

🗣️ Interpreter available 
🔗 Support After Rape 

 ✂️ Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) 

FGM is sometimes also known as female circumcision or cutting. It is the removal of or injury to female genitalia carried out for non-medical reasons, usually to children before they reach puberty. It is carried out because of a mistaken belief that it will benefit the child, but it has no medical benefits and there are no religious texts that say it should be done. 

  • It is illegal in the UK 
  • Very harmful (physical and emotional) 
  • There is no health or religious reason for FGM 

📞 NSPCC FGM Helpline – 0800 028 3550
📧 [email protected]
🔗 NSPCC FGM Help 

📞 Call 999 if someone is in danger. 

Talk to a: 

  • GP 
  • Nurse or midwife 
  • Health worker 

They can help with: 

  • Medical care 
  • Mental health support 
  • Protection 

💍 Forced Marriage / Honour-Based Violence 

These are illegal in the UK: 

  • Forced Marriage: Being made to marry without choice 
  • Honour Violence: Being harmed to protect a family’s ‘honour’ 

📞 Police: 999 (if in danger)
📞 Karma Nirvana Helpline: 0800 5999 247 (Mon–Fri, 9am–5pm)
📧 [email protected]
🔗 Karma Nirvana Website 

⚠️ Radicalisation 

Everyone in the UK has the right to express their beliefs and interests openly, however, radicalisation is when someone starts to believe or support extreme views. They might change their behaviour and beliefs and they might be pressured to do something illegal or dangerous by someone else. It can be hard to know what to do if you’re worried someone close is expressing extreme views or hatred, which could lead to them harming themselves or others. Working with other organisations, the police protect vulnerable people from being exploited by extremists through a Home Office programme called Prevent. If you’re worried about someone, get help. 

📞 Leeds Prevent Team – 0113 535 0810 (Mon–Fri, 9am–4pm)
📧 [email protected]
📞 Police Prevent Team – 0113 241 3386
🔗 Concerned about Radicalisation 

 💊 Drugs and Alcohol 

Illegal Drugs in the UK: 

🔴 Class A – Most serious: heroin, cocaine, ecstasy
🔴 Class B – cannabis, amphetamines, ketamine
🔴 Class C – steroids, tranquilisers (diazepam) 

  • Using drugs: up to 7 years in prison 
  • Selling drugs: life in prison 

Psychoactive Drugs – cause hallucinations, drowsiness or changes in alertness, perception of time and space, mood or empathy with others. You can get a fine or prison sentence of up to 7 years if you: 

  • carry a psychoactive substance and you intend to supply it 
  • make a psychoactive substance 
  • sell, deal or share a psychoactive substance (also called supplying them) 

Help in Leeds: Forward Leeds, They offer support for drug and alcohol problems. 

📞 0113 887 2477
🔗 Forward Leeds

Last Updated: 15 June 2025

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