Learn to protect the people you support while respecting their right to live their own lives. Through in-depth video lessons, worked scenarios, common-mistake breakdowns, hands-on exercises and real case studies, you'll master duty of care and dignity of risk and how to balance them, rights-based practice and supported decision-making, recognising and responding to abuse, handling disclosures, and your reporting obligations — the core safeguarding knowledge for care and support work.
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What you'll learn
- Understand duty of care and dignity of risk and how to balance them
- Apply rights-based practice, presumption of capacity and supported decision-making
- Recognise the types and signs of abuse and neglect
- Respond appropriately to disclosures of harm
- Understand your reporting obligations and act as an effective safeguard
Syllabus
Duty of Care and Dignity of Risk
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Dignity of risk and the balance
Rights, Capacity and Decisions
Rights-based practice and capacity
Balancing in practice
Recognising and Responding to Abuse
Types and signs of abuse
Responding to disclosures
Making Safeguarding Real
Reporting obligations and systems
Being an effective safeguard