Training Safeguarding Adults and Children

Question:

Would anyone be able to provide me with any information regarding a good Safeguarding children and vulnerable adult’s course? Is there anyone that you would recommend?

We are a practice based in South West London and would be interested to have some guidance regarding this topic, also to know how other practices train their staff.

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Following an interview with CQC (not an inspection) we picked up on how important they regard this & actually got the whole team to do basic child protection online using SAFE. Two dentists also did lead on child protection & then both adult safeguarding courses.

The basic child protection course was easy to navigate & nobody in our team had any complaints. Have a look at www.safecic.co.uk, BDA members are entitled to a discount & the courses are recognised by the GDC for verifiable CPD (3 hours for basic child which took on average an hour to complete).

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There is an online course that has been recommended to us by our PCT and is CQC compliant; you may need to speak to them direct to get login details.  www.kwango.com/lbcrsalogin

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Your local PCT should have a safeguarding lead for Adults and children we currently have a link sent from them to complete online training for all our staff.

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There are courses available on ewisdom for safeguarding and child protection. The courses that we have so far attended through e widom have proved to be very good. We were lucky that PCT ran courses for dental and GP practices in our area recently free of charge for the whole team.

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We have just received information that our PCT are going to provide training. I did do a course myself with MELearning that maybe one of your staff members could do then relay it back to the rest of the team. That’s what I did, and when I had finished it I gave the team the account details so they could go on line and have a go! (Not that everybody did). It was very easy going!

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We have just enrolled with quest training & developement www.qtd.org.uk. Pete Chell

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I arranged our training through the local safeguarding children's board, which operates in conjunction with the city council. Completely on the wrong side of the country but it was the Bristol Safeguarding Children's Board (BSCB).

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We used our NHS Trust.

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I sourced our safeguarding training through the local pct who put me in touch with our local council who have provided me with access to e-learning safeguading training. Try your pct/council, they may be able to help… and it’s free.

March 2012