Course Title: Principles of Safeguarding and Protecting Young People or Vulnerable Adults (Equivalent to Level 3)
Course length 6 hours
Maximum number to attend 12
This course is aimed at all staff working in health and social care.
Learning Outcome & Assessment Criteria
Understand how to safeguard and protect children, young people or vulnerable adults in the workplace
Identify key elements of the law on safeguarding:
Children
Young People
Vulnerable Adults
Describe how practitioners can take steps to protect themselves from allegations and complaints within their everyday practice in a work setting.
Describe ways in which concerns can be reported for:
Children
Young People
Vulnerable Adults
Know how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child, young person or vulnerable adult has been abused.
Describe the characteristics of different types of abuse concerning:
Children
Young People
Vulnerable Adults
Explain actions to take in response to evidence of abuse according to agreed ways of working.
Describe how to respond to disclosures of abuse according to agreed ways of working.
Identify those people who the information of abuse or suspected abuse may be shared with.