How can you Prevent Slips and Trips?
Protecting the health and safety of employees is an employer’s primary duty to their staff. The most common causes of workplace accidents are falls, slips and trips. It is therefore a legal as well as moral obligation for employers to take every possible step to prevent these incidents. As well as the obvious human cost […]
What is the Local Authority Children’s Social Care Assessment?
Local authorities have a responsibility to their people when it comes to safeguarding. Safeguarding refers to the process of protecting vulnerable members of society from abuse and neglect. This means making sure their well-being, health care, and human rights are all being looked after to a high standard. One group of individuals that classes as vulnerable are […]
What is the Children Act 1989?
Our children focused courses The Children Act 1989 manages what local authorities, courts, parents, and other agencies in the UK are doing to ensure that children are safeguarded. Safeguarding refers to the process of protecting vulnerable members of society from abuse and neglect. This means making sure their well-being, health care, and human rights are all being […]
What is the Care Act 2014?
Our Care Courses The Care Act 2014, which came into effect in 2015, is the legal framework around how local authorities and other parts of the system should protect adults at risk of abuse or neglect. The Act is the most significant reform of care and support in more than 60 years, aiming to put people […]
What is Safeguarding?
Safeguarding refers to the process of protecting vulnerable members of society from abuse and neglect.This means making sure their well-being, health care, and human rights are all being looked after to a high standard. Vulnerable members of society are: Children: This counts as anyone under the age of 18. Vulnerable adults: This is a person […]
How do I measure the effectiveness of training?
It’s easy to rely on data alone when it comes to measuring the effectiveness of your training program. However, in this illuminating clip, Learning Design Director, Stacey, explores how employee behavior is the real key to understanding just how effective your learning intervention has been. Learning points: What data is useful for measuring training success […]
What is Safeguarding Children?
What is Safeguarding Children? Safeguarding refers to the process of protecting vulnerable children and adults from neglect and abuse by providing safe and effective care. Anyone under the age of 18 years old classes as a child, and can become a victim of abuse and neglect. Child Protection is part of safeguarding process in protecting individual […]
What is Safeguarding Adults?
Safeguarding Adults policies and procedures are intended to protect ‘adults at risk’. An adult at risk is someone aged 18 years or over who is (or may be) in need of community care services by reason of mental or other disability, age or illness, and who is (or may be) unable to take care of him […]
What is Mental Abuse?
Abuse is when someone is being deliberately hurt by someone else. This could be one single act or something that takes place over a prolonged period of time. Safeguarding refers to the process of protecting vulnerable members of society from different types of abuse that can occur. There are a number of different types of abuse, with […]