We can design a bespoke safeguarding training course that’s tailored to your organisation’s specific services, risks, and context.
Here are some of the benefits that bespoke safeguarding training can bring to your organisation.
Bespoke safeguarding training:
1. Reflects your setting
People in different settings encounter different types of abuse or neglect. The safeguarding risks in a homeless shelter, for example, are different to the safeguarding risks in a care home.
Bespoke training will focus on:
- The specific vulnerabilities of the adults you support.
- The environments staff work in or volunteer in.
- The types of safeguarding concerns most likely to arise, and how to respond to them.
This makes the training far more practical and relevant, as your staff can see how safeguarding applies to their role.
2. Aligns with your policies and procedures
Every organisation has its own safeguarding policy and procedures. A bespoke safeguarding course can refer directly to your specific policy and procedures, helping your staff understand:
- Your internal reporting processes.
- Who the safeguarding leads are.
- How to escalate concerns correctly.
- What to do if you don’t feel listened to.
- Your whistleblowing policy.
3. Improves staff confidence and decision-making
Your bespoke training will use scenarios and case studies that your staff or volunteers could actually experience in their work.
This will help your staff or volunteers:
- Recognise the signs of abuse and neglect.
- Feel more confident in acting on their concerns, and responding appropriately.
- Understand the importance of escalating any concern they might have.
- Learn their specific roles and responsibilities when it comes to safeguarding all adults.
4. Supports legal and regulatory compliance
In the UK the Care Act 2014 governs organisations’ and individuals’ specific safeguarding responsibilities.
Bespoke training helps ensure:
- Your staff understand their legal duties when it comes to safeguarding and the context they work in.
- Your organisation meets contractual agreements along with the standards of regulators such as the Care Quality Commission and the Charity Commission.
- Your organisation can clearly evidence your effective safeguarding practice and learning.
5. Meets the specific requirements of different roles and responsibilities
Bespoke training can help people across your organisation understand their specific responsibilities:
- Give frontline staff practical response skills.
- Provide managers with decision-making and reporting guidance.
- Ensure leadership understands accountability and oversight.
6. Helps promote a positive safeguarding culture across your organisation
Bespoke training reinforces that safeguarding is not just a box ticking exercise. It can help your organisation move beyond simple compliance to work towards building a culture where people feel safe and confident in raising concerns, and where concerns are taken seriously:
- Embed safeguarding into daily practice.
- Encourage openness and reporting.
- Promotes an inclusive culture that embeds co-production and ensures the individual remains at the centre of decisions that impact upon them where possible.
- Embed organisational learning at all levels within the organisation.
The training was pitched just right for the group and it was delivered really well. As a management team it has helped us reflect on our practices and processes and the training was well received by all involved.I would definitely use Ann Craft trust again and would recommend them to others.– Maria Summers, Life Path Trust