Safeguarding Adult Online Training
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Overview
Adults can be injured in a number of ways. The elderly and frail are more at risk for abuse and neglect. Adult safeguarding refers to the prevention of abuse and neglect of dependent adults. Several strategies are taken to protect citizens' health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling children, young people, and adults who may be at risk to live free from cruelty, violence, or negligence.
The purpose of this course is to teach the goals of adult protection and some of the laws that support them. Protecting adults is everyone's responsibility.The course provides examples of safeguarding issues that may arise as well as remedies that protect people while preserving their right to make life choices.
Why should you enrol in this training course?
- You'll understand how safeguarding works.
- You will understand how various abuses, negligence, and modern slavery restrain our society.
- You'll learn about our roles and responsibilities in the fight against violence, abuse, and other harmful behaviours.
- You will learn how to report abuse if you suspect it.
- You'll see how multi-agency collaboration can assist in solving these issues.
Learning Outcomes
You will learn how to protect adults in your role through this course. Here are the general learning outcomes:
- Recognise the caution signs of discomfort.
- Identify and respond appropriately when there is a suspicion of abuse.
- Understand how to spot and report harmful practices.
- Explain what multi-agency collaboration means.
- Identify significant pieces of legislation that support multi-agency collaboration.
- Explain why collaboration across agencies is vital.
- Describe how various agencies can participate in multi-agency collaboration and their roles.
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Curriculum
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Section 1 Introduction to Safeguarding Adult 05:00
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Section 2 Abuse 07:00
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Section 3 Emotional Abuse 04:00
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Section 4 Neglect 05:00
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Section 5 Injury 07:00
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Section 6 Sexual Abuse 11:00
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Section 7 Discriminatory Abuse 05:00
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Section 8 Economic or Financial Abuse 09:00
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Section 9 Organisational Abuse 05:00
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Section 10 Self Neglect 03:00
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Section 11 Modern Slavery 05:00
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Section 12 Reporting Abuse 12:00
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Section 13 Safeguarding Children 07:00
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Section 14 Multi-Agency Working 09:00
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Section 15 Roles _ Responsibilities 05:00
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Section 16 Integrated Care 05:00
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Section 17 Supporting Multi-Agency Working 06:00
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Section 18 Summary 01:00
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Description
Curriculum:
Section: 01 - Introduction to Safeguarding Adults
- Definition and principles
- Understanding safeguarding
- The need for a safeguarding framework
Section: 02 - Abuse
- What is abuse?
- Who can experience abuse?
- Who is capable of abusing others?
- What is meant by the term “adult at risk”?
- Six key principles
- Responsibilities towards abuse prevention
- Code of Conduct
- The categories of abuse
- Case study
- Challenge: Identify the types of abuse
Section: 02 - Emotional Abuse
- What is emotional abuse?
- Types of emotional abuse
- Challenge - 01: Identify the types of abuse
- Challenge - 02: Identify the types of abuse
Section: 04 - Neglect
- What is neglect?
- Indications of neglect
- Physical neglect
- Peter
- Lydia
- Claude
- Examples of neglect
- Challenge - 01: Types of neglect and omission
- Challenge - 02: Identify the types of abuse
Section: 05 - Injury
- What is an injury?
- Signs of non-accidental injury
- Points to consider in detecting non-accidental injury:
- Certain patterns of injury are suggestive of NAI:
- Repeat injuries
- Bruising patterns
- Fingertip bruising
- Slap marks
- Imprint of a weapon
- Inherently suspicious injuries
- Bruising to the ear
- Bite marks
- Burns and scalds
- Contact burns
- Cigarette burns
- Scalds
- Signs and symptoms
- Treating burns and scalds
- Challenge: Identify the types of abuse
Section: 06 - Sexual Abuse
- What is sexual abuse?
- Understanding Sexual Abuse
- How common is sexual abuse?
- Signs of sexual assault:
- What is the profile of a sexual abuser?
- Types of sexual abuse
- Verbal
- Covert
- Visual
- Ritualistic
- Physical
- Non-contact
- Sexual exploitation
- Grooming
- How often are men victims of sexual abuse?
- What prevents men from reporting sexual abuse?
- Possible symptoms of sexual abuse
- Sexually transmitted infections/pregnancy
- Local trauma/infection
- Emotional effects
- Self-harm
- Child Sexual Abuse
- What are the signs of child sexual abuse?
- What should I do if I discover a child has been mistreated sexually?
- How can child sexual abuse survivors heal?
- Challenge: Identify the types of abuse
Section: 07 - Discriminatory Abuse
- What is discriminatory abuse?
- Discrimination and UK Law
- Examples of discriminatory abuse
- Indicators of discriminatory abuse
- What Does Discriminatory Abuse Look Like?
- Discrimination and Disability
- How to Deal with Discriminatory Abuse
- Discriminatory abuse scenarios
- Scenario – 01
- Scenario – 02
- Challenge - 01: Identify the types of abuse
- Challenge - 02: Identify the types of abuse
- Challenge - 03: Identify the types of abuse
Section: 08 - Economic or Financial Abuse
- What is economic abuse?
- The impact of economic abuse
- Identifying economic abuse
- Sabotage your income and access to money:
- Restrict how you use money and the things that you own:
- Exploit your economic situation:
- Challenge: Economic or Financial Abuse
- Symptoms of economic abuse
- Signs of experiencing financial abuse
- What you can do:
- Challenge: Identify the types of abuse
Section: 09 - Organisational Abuse
- What is organisational abuse?
- Why does it happen?
- Signs of organisational abuse
- Victim
- Perpetrator
- Examples of organisational or institutional abuse
- Indicators of organisational or institutional abuse
- Challenge - 01: Organisational abuse
- Challenge - 02: Organisational abuse
- Challenge: Signs of organisational abuse
- Challenge: Identify the types of abuse
Section: 10 - Self-neglect
- What is self-neglect
- Self-neglect may include:
- Possible causes of self-neglect
- Behaviours and characteristics of self-neglect
- Understanding self-neglect
- Examples of self-neglect activities
- Self-neglect case study
- Challenge: Identify the types of abuse
Section: 11 - Modern Slavery
- What is modern slavery
- Forms of modern slavery
- Trafficking
- How do people get entangled in trafficking?
- What we do
- Signs of modern slavery
- Modern slavery case study
- Challenge: Identify the types of abuse
Section: 12 - Reporting Abuse
- Staff responsibilities
- Indicators of abuse
- What to do if an adult discloses information
- Process to follow when dealing with a disclosure
- Listen carefully
- Historical abuse
- Taking action
- Making a referral
- Reporting outside of the organisation
- Reporting Safeguarding Concerns: The First Steps
- What Happens After a Report
- Different forms of abuse and neglect
- Sexual abuse
- Physical abuse
- Psychological abuse
- Domestic abuse
- Discriminatory abuse
- Financial abuse
- Neglect
- Abuse in your home
- Suspected abuse
- Symptoms
- Helping adults who you suspect are subject to abuse
- Spotting signs of abuse in older people: advice for carers
- Behavioural signs of abuse in an older person include:
- I'm concerned about someone who may be abused or neglected. So, what should I do now?
- Who to contact if an older person is being abused?
- How suspicious arise
- Something you observe
- Something you hear or are told
- What to do if an adult is being abused
- What not to do if you suspect abuse
- Supporting your wellbeing
- Suspected abuse case study
- Advice and information
Section: 13 - Safeguarding Children
- Who is a child?
- Safeguarding Children
- What is safeguarding?
- Safeguarding means:
- Child protection
- What is the difference between child safeguarding and child protection?
- Safeguarding from a child’s perspective
- Safeguarding children
- Some examples of safeguarding measures
- Developing effective safeguarding policies, procedures and systems
- Undertaking a child safety review
- Creating opportunities for children and young people to participate and provide feedback
- Building child safe capacity in staff, volunteers and leadership teams
- Who is responsible for safeguarding children?
- Types of child abuse
- Physical abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Emotional abuse
- Neglect
- Challenge: Reporting abuse
- Case study: Rupert
- What would you do in this situation?
Section: 14 - Multi-agency Working
- What is multi-agency working?
- Understanding multi-agency working
- Multi-agency aims and achievements
- Aims
- Benefits
- Multi-agency working: Key practice points
- Historic failings - Steven Hoskins
- Multi-agency approaches
- Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
- What is the purpose of multi-agency safeguarding hub mash?
- Multi-agency risk assessment conference (MARAC)
- Aims
- How does the MARAC operate?
- MARAC referrals
- Integrated care
- What are integrated care systems?
- Each ICS will include:
- The Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
Section: 15 - Roles and Responsibilities
- Roles and responsibilities of safeguarding agencies
- NHS
- Within the NHS:
- Social care services
- Care Quality Commission (CQC)
- Police
- Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
- Adult social services
- Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) scenarios
- Scenario – 01: Jean
- Scenario- 02: Martin
- Section: 16 - Integrated Care
- What is integrated care?
- What are integrated care systems?
- Each ICS will include:
- Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP)
- Implementing MSP
- Measuring MSP
- Leading MSP
- Integrated care scenarios
Section: 17 - Supporting Multi-agency Working
- Understanding multi-agency working
- What is Multi-Agency Working?
- Key Factors in Effective Multi-Agency Working
- Communication
- Working Relationships Across Services
- Values
- Collaboration
- Respond
- Training
- Clarity
- Processes
- The importance of multi-agency working challenge
- Key challenges to multi-agency working
Section: 18 - Summary
Who is this course for?
If you are a healthcare professional, social activist, police officer, or multi-agency personnel who cares about safeguarding adults and children and wants to counter the harmful behaviours that are spreading throughout our society, you should take this opportunity to educate yourself and others. In this module, you will find a variety of resources and case studies to assist you in your daily job.
Requirements
No prior knowledge or experience required
Career path
- Safeguarding Support Worker
- Safeguarding Assistant/administrator
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