POVA - Safeguarding Adults
Course available: in-house only (on a date and location of your choice)
Duration: 1 day
This course will offer housing workers an overview of safeguarding adults and protection from abuse. Delegates will explore basic awareness, legal frameworks, government guidance and systems for safeguarding, data protection and confidentiality and how it fits with safeguarding. The course will also consider the future of protecting vulnerable adults.
Course contains
- Legal framework, guidance and government thinking on safeguarding including legal concepts of vulnerability
- Employers responsibilities for safeguarding adults
- The Mental Capacity Act and the impact of changes in social care
- Basic awareness of protection from abuse
- Data Protection, confidentiality and reporting safeguarding concerns.
Suitable for
An essential course for housing workers, working within any service delivery setting, with any age or type of service user. It is particularly suitable for service providers wishing to understand and work with protection of vulnerable adults and is vital for all housing related support, street warden/sheltered housing managers, advice or outreach workers.
