Resting heart rate is only a tiny part of any picture. If your resting rate is 50 and it leaps to 140 as soon as you walk briskly and then takes an age to come down, then the low resting rate is irrelevant. This is leaving aside the inaccuracies of wrist-based HR sensors as opposed to chest straps. Analysis of heart rate data needs to be done over a period of time which allows for sufficient data and the elimination of outliers. Mine is 42 (that’s an average over the past 5 years) because I’m a fitness freak, but it does spike noticeably when determining whether to push or pull a wheelchair.
From a safeguarding point of view, any issues which are raised with the various relevant parties have to be careful not to teeter over into a focus on more trivial issues. I say this as someone who has safeguarding at the core of their employment and unfortunately has to deal with matters that are fairly harrowing on an all too frequent basis. Sticking to the key facts, which are pertinent to the specific cause for concern rather than ‘They only eat tinned vegetables and have a messy garage’ type matters. That is certainly not to say that that is happening here as I can see genuine concern by people which makes me feel faith in humanity. I am speaking more from a professional perspective where, many moons ago, I received a letter (yes, an actual letter) and some of the issues raised were ‘Hedges are too long, goes to the petrol station a lot and doesn’t like cats.’ Whilst that was pretty amusing, it certainly didn’t help the case of the person who wrote the letter. They had become focused on the person and not the actions of the person (though separating the two can make for a fun philosophical discussion.)