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Accurate Recording – Children and Young Persons Care Setting

Accurate recording for care settings

About the course

The Accurate recording for care settings course is suitable for anyone working in a care setting with responsibilities for accurately recording information about individuals in their care.

This course covers all aspects of accurately recording information, including how data protection and privacy laws impact the retention of data, the different types of record keeping, and how S.M.A.R.T objectives can improve the quality of care plans.

The course has been developed by a Lead Safeguarding Officer and lead Evidence Review Officers of adult abuse for the police and an experienced trainer in care homes.

Enrolment is through our Keys To Safeguarding website.

Course Summary

  • Children’s homes regulations 2015
  • Why do we keep records?
  • How do we record?
  • Being appropriate in our record keeping
  • Principles of record keeping
  • Purposes of recording
  • Key records to keep
  • Key issues and events to record
  • Legal issues in record keeping
  • GDPR
  • What happens to records when a child moves?
  • Care plans
  • Why do we have care plans?
  • What needs to be included in a care plan?
  • Care plans created by children’s social care
  • Local authority care plan
  • Risk Assessments and action plan
  • Information to record in the event a child goes missing
  • Recording accurately
  • Medicines
  • Dealing with mistakes
  • Accurately reviewing medicines

Course Details

Suitable for:
Care workers
Trainee care workers

Sample Content

Course Details

Suitable for:
Care workers
Trainee care workers

Sample Content

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