Advanced Safeguarding of Adults for Professionals

About the course

The Advanced Safeguarding of Adults for Professionals course is suitable for anyone working directly with adults and overseeing staff who care for vulnerable adults.

This course covers how to manage the process of safeguarding adults, the Mental Capacity Act, human rights and the Equality Act, what is effective care planning, quality assurance, and monitoring.

Enrolment is through our Keys To Safeguarding website.

Course Summary

Definition of a vulnerable adult
Definition of safeguarding adults
The Care Act 2014
Local authority responsibilities
The Mental Capacity Act
Who could lack capacity under the act
The 5 principles of the Mental Capacity Act
Promoting human rights, choice and control in care planning using the principles
Care planning
Who is considered to be unable to make their own decisions?
Attorneys appointed under Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs)
The court of protection
The public guardian
A criminal offence
Independent mental capacity advocates
Advance decisions to refuse treatment
When does poor care become a safeguarding issue?
Differentiating between poor care and potential safeguarding issues
Causes for concern
Prevention in adult safeguarding
Building blocks for intervention and prevention
Different types of intervention
Features of safe practice
Quality assurance and monitoring – good governance
CQC guidance
A section 42 enquiry
The process
The coroners society and the CQC
Coroners
DoLs and Coroner court
Information sharing obligations under the care act