The aim of this half-day open programme is to provide an overview for multiagency practitioners to the main provisions of the adult safeguarding framework.
Participants will be invited to explore several key areas to increase their knowledge and confidence when making decisions relating to adult safeguarding. They will be able to consider when a safeguarding concern should be raised; identify key actions when responding to adult safeguarding concerns; recognise their own role and reflect on the roles of partner organisations. The session will also introduce reflections on how decision-making within adult safeguarding should balance autonomy and protection; increasing participants awareness of how promoting wellbeing and ‘making safeguarding personal’ should be embedded within adult safeguarding practice.
Learning Outcomes
Following this session, you will be able to:
Following this session, you will be able to:
- Identify key aspects of the legal framework relating to statutory safeguarding for adults incorporated within the Care Act 2014
- Identify when an adult safeguarding concern should be raised, and what constitutes abuse or neglect
- Recognise the crossover between safeguarding adults under the Care Act 2014 and the wider legal framework, including the Mental Capacity Act 2005, Data Protection Act 2018, Human Rights Act 1998 and Equality Act 2010
- Identify the key principles underpinning safeguarding adults practice, and state how they should be applied for adults involved in safeguarding
- Identify the roles and responsibilities of different organisations in respect of adult safeguarding
- Outline the role of professional curiosity in relation to adult safeguarding
- State the importance of promoting wellbeing within adult safeguarding and recognise how to respond to safeguarding concerns in a personalised way, in line with the statutory principles underpinning safeguarding adults work
- Identify appropriate actions to take in response to becoming aware of an adult safeguarding concern
Target Audience
This programme is for managers and staff who are involved in Safeguarding adults in Social Care and Social Housing.
This programme is for managers and staff who are involved in Safeguarding adults in Social Care and Social Housing.
About the Trainer
The programme will be delivered by Helen Holly. Helen Holly is a qualified and experienced trainer and consultant, with experience of training across the police, health, social care, education and charity sectors.
An experienced investigator and interviewer, she worked for over 10 years in Thames Valley Police, specialising as a Detective within Public Protection – which included Child Abuse Investigation, high risk Domestic Abuse, abuse in care homes, so called ‘Honour Based Violence’ and serious sexual offences.
Helen also has extensive experience as an advocate and a Children’s Rights Manager supporting children and young people in care, and children and young people with disabilities. She is a Designated Safeguarding Manager, and also volunteers as a safeguarding governor for a primary school in Herefordshire.
This breadth of experience has led to Helen has designing and delivering training nationally in a wide range of areas, including: safeguarding for adults and children; Domestic Abuse; Care Act, Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards; Transition from Children’s Services to Adult Social Care and the legislative framework; Investigative Skills; Advanced Interviewing; Achieving Best Evidence and Visually Recorded Interviews; Essential Communication Skills; Advanced Investigation of Financial Abuse; Preparation for Tribunals and giving evidence; Recording and Sharing Information; Minute Taking within Safeguarding; Chairing Safeguarding Meetings.
Helen really enjoys facilitating sessions for both large and small groups, and is able to maintain focus on the key learning outcomes whilst also enabling wider discussion and exploration of the broader aspects of professional development.
Helen is currently completing a part time Masters at Sheffield University in Language and Communication Impairment in Children.
The programme will be delivered by Helen Holly. Helen Holly is a qualified and experienced trainer and consultant, with experience of training across the police, health, social care, education and charity sectors.
An experienced investigator and interviewer, she worked for over 10 years in Thames Valley Police, specialising as a Detective within Public Protection – which included Child Abuse Investigation, high risk Domestic Abuse, abuse in care homes, so called ‘Honour Based Violence’ and serious sexual offences.
Helen also has extensive experience as an advocate and a Children’s Rights Manager supporting children and young people in care, and children and young people with disabilities. She is a Designated Safeguarding Manager, and also volunteers as a safeguarding governor for a primary school in Herefordshire.
This breadth of experience has led to Helen has designing and delivering training nationally in a wide range of areas, including: safeguarding for adults and children; Domestic Abuse; Care Act, Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards; Transition from Children’s Services to Adult Social Care and the legislative framework; Investigative Skills; Advanced Interviewing; Achieving Best Evidence and Visually Recorded Interviews; Essential Communication Skills; Advanced Investigation of Financial Abuse; Preparation for Tribunals and giving evidence; Recording and Sharing Information; Minute Taking within Safeguarding; Chairing Safeguarding Meetings.
Helen really enjoys facilitating sessions for both large and small groups, and is able to maintain focus on the key learning outcomes whilst also enabling wider discussion and exploration of the broader aspects of professional development.
Helen is currently completing a part time Masters at Sheffield University in Language and Communication Impairment in Children.