 Principles of Safeguarding & Protecting Children, Young People or Vulnerable Adults
In order to safeguard and protect persons from abuse or neglect we need to learn how to identify vulnerable individuals and take necessary steps to stop abuse and neglect.
Everyone has the right to be safe and live without the fear of abuse, neglect or exploitation and this course aims to teach you how to recognise the signs of abuse and neglect and what actions you can take to stop this from happening and occurring again in the future. Abuse, neglect and exploitation can occur anywhere and by anyone, quite often being a person of trust.
This course is designed for all persons, no matter the field that they are directly involved in, to give them the tools and knowledge to make a difference to a vulnerable person’s life. It will also let the practitioner reporting the abuse know how they can safeguard themselves in every day work, while seeking help and reporting the incident identified.
Learning Outcomes
Learners will:
- Understand how to safeguard and protect children, young people or vulnerable adults in the workplace.
- Identify key elements of the laws on safeguarding.
- Describe how practitioners can take steps to protect themselves from allegations and complaints within their everyday practice in a work setting.
- Describe the ways in which concerns can be reported.
- 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.
- 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 can be shared.