Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection from abuse
In this tutorial you will learn:
- About the different guidelines, policies and procedures about safeguarding
- About the roles of different agencies in safeguarding and protecting individuals from abuse.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'Policy and guidance’ from the National Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Children
- 'Working together to safeguard children: A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children’ by the HM Government
- Research the safeguarding partners in your local authority.
- 'Factsheet 7: Protecting adults from abuse or neglect’ on the Gov UK website
- 'Keeping children safe in education’ from the Department for Education.
- 'Early years foundation stage statutory framework (EYFS) from the Department for Education.
- 'Case review process in UK nations’ from the NSPCC
- 'Safeguarding - the role of other agencies’ from the Charity Commission for England and Wales
- Find and read your organisation's policies and procedures on safeguarding and prevention from abuse.
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s presentation on 'Safeguarding organisations'.
- Click to launch this lesson’s presentation on 'Serious case reviews'.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read the Office of the Public Guardian's policy on protecting adults at risk of abuse or neglect.
- Use the internet to look at reports into serious failures to protect individuals from abuse like high-profile cases such as: Jasmine Beckford, Daniel Pelka, Peter Connolly, Steven Hoskin, Hamzah Khan or Victoria Climbié. As you look at these reports consider the circumstances that lead to the events described and whether the lessons have been learned.
- Click to read ‘Safeguarding Adults Boards checklist and resources’ on the Social Care Institute for Excellence website.
- Click to read ‘A child focussed approach to safeguarding’ from London Safeguarding Children Procedures that looks at the importance of a child or young person-centred approach to safeguarding.
- Think And Challenge
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