Safeguarding Adults for Managers

Course Duration:

9.30am - 4.30pm

Target Audience:

Managers, senior staff / volunteers, direct employers and their PA’s excluding individuals employed by Hertfordshire County Council.

For HCC employees please contact acslearninganddevelopment@hertfordshire.gov.uk for alternative training.

Aim:

This course will enable participants to understand the impact of The Care Act 2014 on safeguarding protocols. This will include determining how the 6 key principles of safeguarding impact on their operational activity, how to respond to incidences of abuse at a strategic level and how enquiries take place. The course encourages learners to take a proactive perspective and explores what measures a service can take to prevent abuse and how to learn from mistakes and near misses. The participants will consider a range of safeguarding strategies to ensure that services make safeguarding personal and ensure individuals remain at the centre of their decision making.

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe the aims of safeguarding and Hertfordshire priorities
• Explain the legislative framework for safeguarding
• Explain how the 6 key principles underpin safeguarding
• Explain ways to prevent abuse
• Describe the role of the manager in an enquiry
• Identify the 10 types of abuse
• Describe the role of the safeguarding board
• Explain how to respond to and report abuse
• Describe how to make safeguarding personal