Safeguarding Overview
Core Skills Training • Duration: 3.5 hours
Suitable for: All Staff
The aim of the course is to help staff understand and gain confidence around their roles and responsibilities in safeguarding. The course serves as an introduction for new staff or a refresher for staff who have received safeguarding training previously and draws upon guidance from legislation, policies and procedures and best practice. The course is highly interactive and practical, to enable staff to apply what they learn to their own work setting.
What You’ll Learn
Identify forms of abuse, recognising situations to be a safeguarding concern
Sensitively respond to a disclosure or concern
Record and report concerns confidently, using the organisation’s internal reporting process.
Course Content
Legislation guidance: 6 principles
Abuse and neglect refresher
Organisational policies, procedures and best practice
Review of staff responsibilities: recognising, responding, recording, reporting and referring to external agencies
What to expect: