Safeguarding Children and Young Adults Training (POCA) - Level 3

This course aims to provide you with some of the key knowledge and skills necessary to understand the issues related to ‘safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people’.

This involves understanding safeguarding definitions, legislation, inter-agency framework and policies; recognising types of abuse; professional responsibilities towards children; ways of recognising, responding, recording and preventing child abuse; handling information about a child and their guardian; clinical knowledge, skills and responsibilities, working with other professionals.

This module contains the following:
- Safeguarding Definitions
- Safeguarding Framework and Nursing Staff
Groups
- Introduction to Maltreatment
- Recognising Types of Abuse
Including FGM
An introduction to Modern Slavery and
Child Trafficking and Child Exploitation
- Reporting Maltreatment
- Ethics and Handling Information

This will be tested by a multiple choice quiz, with a pass mark of 75%.
This course should take up to 3 hours

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Legislation, Guidelines and Frameworks

This module contains the following:
- Key Legislation, Rights and Needs
- Implication of Legislations and Inter-agency Policy
- Inter-agency Frameworks and Assessment Processes
- Role and Importance of Safeguarding Partners
- Policies and Practice Between Locations

This will be tested by a multiple choice quiz, with a pass mark of 75%.

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Clinical Knowledge, Skills and Responsibilities

This module contains the following:
- Applying Clinical Knowledge in Context of Safeguarding
- Communicating with Children and Family
- Assessment and Escalation
- Management of Cases
- Patient, Death and Forensic Management

This will be tested by a multiple choice quiz, with a pass mark of 75%.

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Working with Other Professionals; Legal and QA Responsibilities

This module contains the following:
- Promoting a Supportive Environment
- Communicating Productively
- Recognising Who to Work With
- Issues Directly Affecting Professionals
- Active Participation in Assessment and Planning
- Advanced Documentation
- Contributing to Legal Processes
- Contributing to Audit Processes

This will be tested by a multiple choice quiz, with a pass mark of 75%.

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Any copying in whole or in part of the text of this training programme is strictly prohibited. Moral rights of the author under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 are asserted.