Safeguarding in Health
Level 3
This course has been developed for anyone who has completed the Level 2 Safeguarding Children course.
This two-module course follows the guidance outlined in the 'Safeguarding Children and Young People: Roles and Competencies for Healthcare Staff' intercollegiate document. It also follows the Core Skills Training Framework.
The content will help you to understand the following:
- Child maltreatment
- What maltreatment is
- How to recognise the signs of maltreatment and fabricated or induced illness
- Assessment Frameworks & risk assessments including information on contextual safeguarding
- Effects of parental behaviour on the child, risks to the unborn child, looked after children and maltreatment of adults at risk
- Efective management plans, including Section 47 of the Children Act 1989 and Section 42 of the Care Act 2014
- Legislation and Guidance including:
- The Human Rights Act 1989
- The Children Act 1989 & 2004
- The Children and Social Work Act 2017
- Working Together to to Safeguard Children 2018
- Data Protection Act 2018
- The Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
- The Care Act 2014 (2018)
- Information and communication
- Information sharing and confidentiality including details on Gillick competence/Fraser guidelines
- Effective communication and additional information on chaperones
- Report writing and details on being a professional witness
- Attitudes and values including information on a number of cultural or religious factors that may feature in child maltreatment
- Lessons learnt from serious case reviews including common themes
- Good practice, your roles and responsibilities, the impact of safeguarding on professionals and training
Safeguarding in Health, what are my buying options?
Buy as a standalone course
This course costs £32.50
Buy as part of a training package
This course is included as part of EduCare for Health: Health & Social Care, that maps to both the Care Certificate* and the UK Core Skills Training Framework for health (CSTF).
Training the way you want it
Can’t find what you need? You can either pick the courses you need from our extensive range and create your own
Why EduCare?
Our content experts ensure your courses are kept up-to-date. We constantly monitor changes to statutory guidance, legislation and inspection requirements, as soon as changes are confirmed, we update your course content at the earliest opportunity.
EduCare’s online learning management system is incredibly easy to use with training courses that can be accessed at any time and from any computer with internet access.
With EduCare you can:
- Fulfil your legal duty of care in the key areas the law and inspection requires
- Provide robust evidence of staff training
- Access powerful management reports so you know who has completed the training
- Allow ALL staff to complete
essential duty of care training - Access additional resources to extend subject knowledge
- Keep up-to-date with legislation changes
- Download personalised certificates
- Train anytime, anywhere - 24/7
- Provide training certified for CPD
In association with
Key features and benefits
Price £32.50 excl. VAT
Max. Duration 3 hours
Target Audience Health & Social Care
- This course is Level 3 (as graded against the nationally accepted levels for training courses)
- Delivers 3 CPD credits
- 70% pass mark
- Optional narration feature for accessibility purposes
- Additional resources for further learning and printable modules for future reference
- Printable modules for future reference
What customers say
"West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation work with EduCare on a range of e-learning programmes. We feel that the EduCare method is robust, engaging and easy-to-use. It is also good resource as it allows learners to refer back to content even after they have completed their training. I would definitely recommend EduCare to other organisations who need to undertake staff training."
Julian Rhodes, Head of Education
West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust