To live a life free from abuse and harm is a basic human right. We are all responsible for the protection of people at risk from abuse. Vulnerable adults rely on us to take the right steps to help keep them safe. If we don’t, who will? To ignore abuse and neglect is to allow it to continue and that is never acceptable.
To live a life free from abuse and harm is a basic human right. We are all responsible for the protection of people at risk from abuse. Vulnerable adults rely on us to take the right steps to help keep them safe. If we don’t, who will? To ignore abuse and neglect is to allow it to continue and that is never acceptable.
The National Intercollegiate Document ‘Safeguarding for Adults: Roles and Competencies’ defines the safeguarding knowledge, skills and attitudes required by staff working in health and care settings. The document specifies the safeguarding competencies required at Levels 1 to 5, and additionally, for executive and non-executive directors at Board level.
Health Education England (HEE) has worked with subject matter experts to develop a set of high quality, national resources for Levels 1-4.
Level 1 and Level 2 Safeguarding Adults
These two levels provide an introduction to the requirements and responsibilities for Safeguarding Adults. The two modules also address the learning outcomes defined in the UK Core Skills Training Framework and are aimed at the following staff:
Level 3 Safeguarding Adults
This level is for registered health and care staff who engage in assessing, planning, intervening and evaluating the needs of adults where there are safeguarding concerns (as appropriate to their role).
Whether your organisation wishes to take a blended learning approach or entirely face to face approach to training Level 3 Safeguarding Adults. Resources we can suggest are:
Please see below for further details.
This session will cover the training required for safeguarding adults for all staff.
As training for safeguarding adults is usually tailored to each specific working environment, dependent on which area or group within the NHS that you work in, there may be elements of your training that are not covered here; alternatively, there may be others covered here that are not relevant to you.
To start your learning, CLICK HERE - Safeguarding Adults (SGA) - Level 1
This session builds on Safeguarding adults level 1. It will equip you with a greater knowledge and understanding of:
The Intercollegiate Documents set out that for level 3 training, is a suggested 8 hours of safeguarding training and learning related to safeguarding should be acquired over a 3 year period.
This can include :
The RCGP launched its Safeguarding Hub and Toolkit in October 2024 - this covers both safeguarding adults and children providing resources and training for all the Practice staff covering safeguarding training competencies level 1-3.