Safeguarding Adults Training Courses
If you work in health, social care and related services, either as a paid worker or volunteer, you have a role to play in promoting the rights of people who use services and safeguarding them from harm or neglect:
- you have a duty of care
- you are in a position of trust and adults at risk rely on you to support them
- you need to learn to recognise and report any type of abuse.
Bradford District Safeguarding Adults Board offer a variety of multi-agency safeguarding adults training courses which can help people understand how they can safeguard adults. It is highly recommended that everyone who works with or around adults at risk ensures that their own training is up to date.
Information about all Safeguarding Adults training courses and how to book a place is provided below:
Please click the relevant link below to log in/create an account and use the search field in the top right hand corner to find the course you wish to book on. Please note to access the course booking system you will need to use an up to date Internet Explorer browser 10 or above or Google Chrome.
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Please note – external users will need to sign up/sign into their account before being able to view accurate places available as each course is set into allocations for the individual agencies so will only show once it knows where you work. If the course date you want is full you can email us at safeguardingtraining@bradford.gov.uk to be placed on the waiting list. Most of our courses run from 9.30am to 4.30pm, with registration from 9am and our half day courses 9.30am to 12.30pm. This will be stated on the course flyer and confirmation email. Please ensure you can attend the whole course prior to booking.
The demand for places on training courses is high and we want to make sure every place booked is a place used. We incur costs in order to provide courses and need to be assured that we are spending our budget wisely. A cancellation charge will be applied for all places unless:
- Notice of the need to cancel the place has been received by the Training Administrator (by email or telephone) at least 5 working days prior for ½ and 1 day courses or at least 10 working days prior for 2 day courses.
- You/your agency have identified a suitable substitute to attend in your place.
Please see our FAQ document for further details and charges (PDF)
For any queries, please contact:
Michelle Jones
Training Administrator
Tuesday 9th April 2024
Friday 6th September 2024
Tuesday 14th January 2024
The level 1 training session is around 1hr 30 minutes and looks at identifying financial abuse and exploitation. We also explore different types of scams and fraud seen nationally and locally. The session outlines how financial abuse comes under The Care Act 2014 and how as professionals we can safeguard service users from financial abuse and exploitation. We aim to address the stigma attached to being scammed and how we can change this.
The role of WYFEAT (West Yorkshire Financial Exploitation and Abuse Team) and the referral process will also be explained in detail. Finally, the session looks at what practical measures are available to victims in West Yorkshire in order combat financial abuse and exploitation.
Trainer - Georgina Rushforth - Safeguarding Officer
To register please go bradfordsafeguardingpartnership.vc-enable.co.uk. (Once registered/logged in please click on the events tab)
Wednesday 12th & Thursday 13th June 2024
Wednesday 18th & Thursday 19th September 2024
This two-day, face-to-face programme is aimed at managers and team leaders of any services who contribute to the care or support of adults at risk of abuse and neglect. This can include, for example, housing, education, advocacy and police as well as health and social care. We will explore the experiences and aspirations of adults with care and support needs and discuss practical implications and solutions for managers of services. Using a range of facilitated discussions and interactive group exercises, participants will be encouraged to build on their existing knowledge and experience and to think about how learning can be applied to their particular service, role and responsibilities.
Content includes:
- How adults in Bradford might experience abuse and neglect: With a focus on human rights and ‘Making Safeguarding Personal’, exploring models of coercion and control to look at how abuse can happen in different situations.
- The legal frameworks and local arrangements for safeguarding adults: Using legislation and examples from case law to explore how different legal frameworks apply in different situations and how the local multiagency arrangements might work in practice.
- The Manager’s role and contribution to different stages of safeguarding procedures: Practical tips on how to use the procedures most effectively and how the procedures fit with other guidelines such as managing incidents, staff capability and misconduct.
- Safeguarding Leadership: exploring how participants can monitor safeguarding in their service and create a positive, open safeguarding culture within the staff team.
Friday 17th May 2024
Tuesday 16th July 2024
Tuesday 10th September 2024
Thursday 7th November 2024
Wednesday 5th March 2025
This 3 hour face to face training session is aimed at professionals who contribute to the care or support of adults at risk of abuse and neglect. This can include, for example, housing, education, advocacy and police as well as health and social care.
The session will provide an understanding of what Making Safeguarding Personal is and how to apply this when working with vulnerable adults who are most at risk. This interactive training will draw on facilitated discussions and interactive group exercises to inform learning and putting Making Safeguarding Personal into practice.
Learning outcomes:
What Making Safeguarding Personal is
How to apply Making Safeguarding Personal in Practice
Understanding the importance of Making Safeguarding Personal
when learning from Local Safeguarding Adults Review
Venue:
Margaret McMillan Tower; View Room
To register please go here (Once registered/logged in please click on the events tab)
Thursday 18th April 2024
Thursday 11th July 2024
Tuesday 17th September 2024
Tuesday 19th November 2024
Thursday 16th January 2025
This 1-day face to face course will explore different types of abuse and the safeguarding process of how to respond and report. You will receive training and guidance in the following areas:
- Who to safeguard and from what
- Different types of abuse
- Who is at risk
- Who may abuse - and why
- Adults procedures/ Care Act guidance for safeguarding adults
- Legislation that provides powers when sharing information
- Raising a safeguarding concern
- Police powers.
- Organisational safeguarding concerns
- Human rights and making safeguarding personal
- Safeguarding Adult Reviews
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the day you will have extended your knowledge and understanding in the following areas:
- The different types of abuse adults in the Bradford District might experience.
- Awareness of signs and indicators of abuse
- Recognising signs of abuse and neglect of adults in different circumstances.
- The support available to adults experiencing abuse.
- Procedures for safeguarding ‘adults at risk’, which will include barriers to sharing information, confidentiality and consent.
- Increased confidence in knowing what to do if you are concerned about abuse or neglect.
Who should attend?
This 1-day face to face training session is aimed at professionals who contribute to the care or support of adults at risk of abuse and neglect. This can include, for example, housing, adult education, advocacy and police. as well as health and social care
To register please go bradfordsafeguardingpartnership.vc-enable.co.uk. (Once registered/logged in please click on the events tab)
Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Thursday 12th September 2024
Thursday 4th February 2025
This training session will look at relevant parts of the Human Rights Act and the main legal frameworks which underpin initiatives and procedures used to support adults who may be experiencing abuse or neglect. This will cover some legal principles and structure of the law, looking at the scope, application and limitations of different pieces of legislation, illustrating with case scenarios and relevant case-law. The focus will be on the legal framework underpinning safeguarding responses and associated powers and obligations on health and social care professionals.
Course content will cover legal frameworks related to -
- Human Rights
- Safeguarding Adults (at risk)
- Consent and Mental Capacity
- Information sharing
- Crime and Disorder Act
- FGM
- Deprivation of Liberty
- PREVENT
- Domestic Abuse / MARAC
- Wilful neglect
Key references will include e.g. Human Rights Act (1998), The Care Act (2014), Mental Capacity Act (2005), Sexual Offences Act 2003, Crime and Disorder Act 1998, Serious Crime Act (2015), Equality Act (2010). Reference will also be made to legal concepts such as burden and thresholds for proof, inherent jurisdiction, proportionality and reasonableness.
To register please go bradfordsafeguardingpartnership.vc-enable.co.uk. (Once registered/logged in please click on the events tab)
Monday 15th July 2024
Thursday 19th September 2024
Time:
10.00 – 16.00
This multi-agency training consists of seven sessions, which will comprise PowerPoint Slide Shows, presented ‘live’ using MS Teams. Each presentation will be around 20-30 minutes, from 10am- 4pm, after which there will be time for Q&A, discussion and reflection. Links will be contained within the Slide Shows or sent separately in an email. Short film clips are used to bring the research close to practice.
Session 1 Understanding Trauma
Session 2 What might contemporary science be able to tell us about Trauma?
Session 3 Recognising and working with traumatised individuals
Session 4 Working with Traumatised Children and Adults
Session 5 Recovering from Trauma
Session 6 The ‘Art and Science of Relationships’
Session 7 What is Compassion Fatigue and what can we do about it?
Participants will receive PDFs of each PowerPoint presentation at the end of the programme. The session is for all multi-agency professionals.
Presenter: Professor David Shemmings OBE PHD, Emeritus Professor University of Kent, Visiting Professor, Royal Holloway University of London.
This training is aimed for those professionals working with Adults or Children.
To register please go here (Once registered/logged in please click on the events tab)
Tuesday 8th October 2024
Wednesday 29th January 2025
This training will focuss on:
Understanding Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation, exploring how it may present within your clients or case load.
Exploring the statutory response to Modern Slavery and how to gain support for potential victims.
Understanding how to work with potential victims of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking to ensure trauma informed and safety focused.
Sharing contacts from around West Yorkshire who can support your victims of Modern Slavery.
To register please go bradfordsafeguardingpartnership.vc-enable.co.uk. (Once registered/logged in please click on the events tab)
Tuesday 1st October 2024
This FACE TO FACE professional practice session explores the complex nature of self-neglect and how this relates to safeguarding adults as well as issues surrounding mental capacity. This interactive session will also explore how self-neglect is associated with hoarding and other complex issues. Practitioners from housing officers to social workers, police and health professionals can find working with people who self-neglect extremely challenging. In this session professionals will work through a case study exploring these complexities and look at how we can offer people support without causing distress and understand the limitations to our interventions if the person does not wish to engage.
Trainers:
Lindsey Hussain - Multiagency Safeguarding training coordinator
Miranda Stead - Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children and Adults
Monday 9th September 2024
This training is for partners working and volunteering with adults and children, this provides a great opportunity for people to share their experiences.
The training will look at:
• Understanding culture both individually and within a wider social context.
• Understanding self, including cultural humility.
The training will be delivered in a participatory way, and it aims to create safe spaces for people to have conversations.
Some of the things that will be explored in this training include:
• Becoming aware of our own cultural norms, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours.
• To examine our own personal biases, stereotypes, and prejudices.
• Better understand what unconscious bias is and to reflect upon their own.
• Understanding what is meant by ‘culture’ and why it is important for health professionals to be aware of how this can impact health.
• Understanding the impact cultural differences might have on interactions with others.
• Become comfortable with “not knowing” – Balancing their expert knowledge with being open to learning from the community and people’s lived experiences.
Recent feedback from participants on the training include:
- The most interactive EDI session I’ve ever been to!
- Confidence to love un-comfortability covered in a non-threatening way.
- Thought Provoking.
- I enjoyed the group discussions and felt safe voicing my opinions within the group.
- Well contextualised, useful activities to help reflection on self-bias etc.
- Feel better informed and mindful of own practice.
- Thinking more widely about people of different backgrounds.
Many vulnerable and open conversations of past experiences is eye opening
Training Facilitator:
Gary Blake works as a training manager for West Yorkshire Health & Care Partnership and for the last two and a half years has been working with cross-sector partners to develop this training. Before being employed by the NHS he spent 30 years working in the Third Sector developing and delivering a wide range of training. including Youth Work, Community Development, Community Cohesion, Participatory Research and Volunteer Management.