Description
By the end of the course, candidates will be able to:
- Describe the different types of abuse and their indicators
- Recognise why some people are more at risk of harm
- Discuss who abuses and reasons why they might do this
- Identify the 6 key principles for safeguarding adults as outlined in the Care Act 2014
- Explain what is meant by the term ‘duty of care’
- Discuss how to respond when abuse is disclosed, suspected or witnessed
- List the organisations that can be involved in safeguarding
- Explain what happens when a concern is raised
- Identify the difference between poor practice and possible abuse
Course content
- Terms
- Who is at risk?
- Media report examples
- Statistics 2016-2017
- Key issues
- Categorising abuse
- Physical
- Sexual
- Psychological
- Financial
- Neglect and acts of omission
- Discriminatory
- Organisational (formerly Institutional)
- Self Neglect
- Other types of abuse
- Indicators of abuse
- Patterns of abuse
- Who abuses?
- Why people might abuse
- The Care Act 2014
- Local Authority duties
- Duty of Care
- The 6 Key Safeguarding Principles
- Teaching self-protection
- Responding to abuse
- Taking action
- Mental Capacity
- Raising a concern
- How concerns are managed
- What to expect
- Witnessed unsafe practice
- Adult reviews
- Working together
- Lessons learnt
