Certified Safeguarding training for voluntary and community groups in Somerset.
Safeguarding of adults, young people and children is everybody’s business. It means protecting an individual’s right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect.
Ensuring the welfare of all adults is vital, and voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) organisations should be aware of how to protect the people they work with from harm.
Join us for an in-depth training session, facilitated by SafeCIC, which will include:
- The recognition and types of abuse
- How to respond to concerns and what to do in the event of a disclosure
- Who to contact when there is a concern
- Relevant regulatory requirements including OFSTED, CQC and the Charity Commission
- Safeguarding competence and safer working practices
- Bespoke case scenarios linking to the organisation’s safeguarding policy and procedures
This course is continuously updated to reflect the latest revised statutory guidance, and meets the outcomes of levels 1 and 2 for:
- Intercollegiate document (2025) Safeguarding children and young people & children and young people in care: Competencies for health care staff
- Adult Safeguarding: Roles and Competencies for Health Care Staff (Intercollegiate document 2024)
All successful delegates will receive a comprehensive digital training pack and certificate of attendance, valid for three years.
About the trainer
Your trainer for this session will be Stuart McCallum, a retired police officer with 30 years’ exemplary service with Suffolk Constabulary. Stuart worked in a variety of roles including Protecting Vulnerable People Directorate (safeguarding); child/adult at risk/domestic abuse investigation; management of offenders in the community; child death investigation (‘SUDIC’); policy review; training, and working with statutory and third sector agencies for the majority of the last 20 years.
Stuart now provides bespoke, approved safeguarding training to adults and carries out safeguarding audits in forensic detail with SafeCIC.
Tickets for this training are freely available for those who work, or volunteer, directly with children, young people, adults at risk, their families and/or carers in Somerset.
