Safeguarding Adults and Children - Level 2 - Online Course - CPD Accredited
The Mandatory Training Group
Delivery Method: eLearning Safeguarding Adults and Children - Level 2 - Online Course - CPD Accredited.
Welcome to The Mandatory Training Group's online Safeguarding Adults and Children training courses for healthcare and social care providers. These online safeguarding children and adults training courses are aligned to the UK Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF).
Course content
Safeguarding Adults - Level 1 & 2
The online Safeguarding Vulnerable Adult’s training course covers the following:
- Introduction to the safeguarding of adults
- The Care Act 2014
- Lessons from reviews
- Reducing the risk of abuse
- Disclosure of abuse
- Nothing about me without me
- Making safeguarding personal
- Mental capacity act
- Deprivation of liberty standards (DoLS)
- Restraint (Mental Capacity Act)
- Principles for safeguarding vulnerable adults
- Roles and responsibilities
- Serious adult reviews
- Sharing information
- Preserving evidence in safeguarding cases
- Prevent strategy
- Online learning resources
Safeguarding Children Level 1 & 2
The online Safeguarding Children training course covers the following:
- An introduction to the fundamental principles of safeguarding children
- Understanding why safeguarding children is important
- The Human Rights of Children – The United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
- An understanding of what safeguarding children means
- An awareness of crucial safeguarding children legislation
- An understanding of the common terms used in safeguarding children
- An understanding of the complex nature of child abuse
- The ‘Toxic Trio’ about safeguarding children
- An awareness of the main types of abuse in children and young people
- Knowledge of the dangers of radicalisation of children and young people
- An awareness of the dangers of child trafficking
- An awareness of female genital mutilation (FGM) in girls and young women
- Knowledge of the risks (to children and young people) from the internet and social networking sites
- Emerging themes concerning child protection, safeguarding children and young people
- Knowing what to do if a child or young person discloses abuse
- Knowing what to do if you suspect child abuse
- Understanding your responsibilities in protecting children and young adults from abuse
- Where to find useful information and resources regarding the safeguarding of children (online child protection learning resources).
Safeguarding Adults Level 3
This online safeguarding adults at risk Level 3 training course covers the following:
- What is safeguarding adults,
- How to support vulnerable people,
- How to keep people safe,
- How to respond to safeguarding alerts,
- The legislation surrounding safeguarding adults,
- Understand the Mental Capacity Act,
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards,
- Understand the purpose of report writing,
- How to plan an adult protection investigation,
- How to provide strong leadership to make safeguarding integral to care, and
- How to use systems and standards to prevent and respond to neglect and abuse.
Safeguarding Children Level 3
This online safeguarding children Level 3 training course provides a thorough understanding of child protection by covering a breadth of topics relevant to anybody with a responsibility for safeguarding children and young people. This online safeguarding children Level 3 training course covers the following:
- An understanding of what safeguarding children and young people means,
- Child development and negative influences on it,
- An awareness of the key legislation and guidance about the safeguarding of vulnerable children and young people,
- How to be aware of your professional responsibilities, as well as those of your colleagues and partner organisations,
- How to be able to document and report concerns relating to child abuse or maltreatment, including:
- Taking adequate history,
- Performing a physical examination in ways that are deemed appropriate in line with current legislation relating to safeguarding and protection of children and young people,
- Assessing parenting capacity,
- The forms of abuse and signs of abuse, and
- Recognising and responding to abuse, with specific guidance on note-taking and recording your concerns.
- How to meaningfully contribute to inter-agency assessments, as well as the gathering and sharing of information and where appropriate analysis of risk posed,
- How to work in partnership with others, including:
- completing local reviews,
- including child death reviews, and
- lessons learned from recent serious case reviews.
- How to participate in inter-agency working and be supportive to vulnerable children and young children, and their families/guardians where safeguarding concerns have been raised,
- How to be familiar with your local organisational protocols and referral processes to your local safeguarding team and/or social services, and how to minimise barriers in the referral process, and
- How to be aware of your information sharing responsibilities within and across multi-disciplinary teams.
Who is this course for?
These online Safeguarding Adults and Children training courses should be completed by those who work in health and social care services, including:
- NHS medical, nursing, AHP and care staff
- Locum doctors and nurses
- Locum allied health professionals (AHPs)
- Agency nurses
- Agency workers
- Healthcare assistants
- Support workers
- Care assistants
- Community services.
Course aims
The overall aim of this online Safeguarding Adults and Children training courses is to improve awareness and knowledge relating to the safeguarding of vulnerable adults at risk, particularly in health care and social care settings. These online Safeguarding Adults and Children training courses meet the requirements of the Care Act 2014 and the CQC Common Induction Standards.
Safeguarding children and young people from harm and providing an environment in which children can flourish is a critical societal value. Children and young people have a right to be “protected from all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and bad treatment by their parents or anyone else who looks after them” (United Nations 1989). Organisations are required to co-operate with other agencies to protect individual children and young people from harm.
The importance of this has been powerfully highlighted as part of recent inquiries exploring child and young people safeguarding issues (Children’s Commissioner 2012).
Learning outcomes
On completion of these online Safeguarding Adults and Children training courses, learners will be able to:
To prevent harm and reduce the risk of abuse or neglect to adults with care and support needs,
To safeguard individuals in a way that supports them in making choices and having control in how they choose to live their lives,
To promote outcomes-based approaches in safeguarding that works for people resulting in the best experience possible, and
To raise public awareness so that professionals, other staff and communities as a whole play their part in preventing, identifying and responding to abuse and neglect.
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Safeguarding Adults and Children - Level 2 - Online Course - CPD Accredited.