Safeguarding Adults Level 2 Training
This Safeguarding Adults course – formerly known as Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults (SOVA) – covers levels 1 & 2 and is for anyone who works with, helps, or supports adults at risk. It covers the signs of abuse and explains what to do if you suspect something is happening to an adult at risk, or adults in a vulnerable situation. It’s all about sensitive handling and timely intervention.
Over 300,000 concerns of abuse of adults at risk are raised every year in the UK
- Health & Safety
- 40 languages
- 45m
Learning outcomes
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Learn about what groups of adults might be at risk
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Understand and work towards compliance with The Mental Capacity Act and other legislation
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Learn about the different types of abuse that adults might experience and how to effectively deal with it should it occur
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Covered in this course
Course contents
This training course is broken down into 3 sections
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1Safeguarding
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2What is abuse?
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3Dealing with Abuse
Section 1
Adult safeguarding is about maintaining or improving a person’s wellbeing, promoting their independence and protecting them from abuse, harm and neglect. In this section, we look at who might be at risk, what the law says and at the principles, policies and procedures for safeguarding.
Section 2
Abuse can happen anywhere and can be carried out by anyone – including family, friends, neighbours, carers and volunteers. It can be a single act or repeated acts of abuse. In this section, we will be looking at the different types of abuse and various ways of recognising that they may be happening.
Section 3
When dealing with abuse, harm or neglect and reporting it, it's important to act quickly. You need to know what to do. In this final section, users will learn about responding to a disclosure, recording, reporting, emergency situations and the importance of confidentiality.
About this course
Safeguarding Adults Training (Formerly known as Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults or SOVA training) is a training programme about protecting adults at risk and keeping them safe from harm. It’s about recognising the signs of abuse and knowing what to do. This course covers both levels 1 & 2.
Safeguarding is not something that is done in seclusion, and this training highlights the importance of all the relevant services working together in a ‘partnership of care’. It also highlights the importance of the individual – a ‘person-centred’ approach.
This safeguarding vulnerable adults training explains the seven major forms of abuse and gives step-by-step guidance to deal with abuse; including raising an alert, making a referral and what to include in a written report. It’s essential to act quickly if you think abuse may be happening – the quicker it’s spotted, the quicker something can be done about it.
Working with children? You may also be interested in our Safeguarding Children Training. We also offer a selection of online Safeguarding training courses.
You can access our free worksheet that has been designed to accompany our safeguarding adults online training course. In each section, there is a box for you to
tick when you have watched the relevant slide in our course. You can also take notes that will help you during your practical assessment at work.
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Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Training Course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questions guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your Safeguarding Adults Level 2 Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third-party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.
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Very informative.
I found the Safeguarding Adults course very informative, clear, and useful. The content was well organised and easy to understand. I particularly appreciated how the course highlighted the importance of recognising signs of abuse and knowing how to respond appropriately. Overall, I found the course very valuable in preparing myself to teach the lerners in the prison.
I always enjoy learning new things about Safegaurding as the list is non exhaustive.
It was very informative, but maybe it can be cut down as it was very long due to not having enough admin time to do it in a day having saying that i enjoyed the training.
So informative, accessible and education enhancing for professionals.
This training course was so interesting, informative, easy to follow and rewarding to complete. So much essential knowledge with appropriate guidance in following sections throughout this adaptive training. Giving every access to supplementary websites to support and expand your personal knowledge. Highly recommend this CPD training course.
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Excellent course, well explained and easy to complete.
This Safeguarding Adults Level 2 course was really well put together. The information was clear, easy to follow and covered everything I needed to know in a straightforward way. It wasn’t confusing or overly long, and I feel much more confident about recognising and responding to safeguarding issues now. I’d definitely recommend it to others.
Very informative, ,
This helps with elderly neighbours and trying to help them and things to look out for with them.
Made me realise how little I knew.
Gave me the confidence of having more knowledge & helped me see that safeguarding is most importantly person centred.
Why is this training important?
Compliance
It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.
When it comes to the law regarding Safeguarding Adults, there are a number of documents that set out legal obligations:
The Care Act 2014 means that local councils have to set up a Safeguarding Adults Board in their area. This must include the local council, the NHS and the Police as well as other local services. They must work together to make policies and plans to protect adults at risk in their area.
The Health and Social Care Act 2012: This Act establishes and makes various provisions, including:
[the need] to make provision about regulating health and adult social care services; [as well as a] scrutiny of health matters by local authorities and co-operation between local authorities and commissioners of health care services
The Mental Capacity Act 2005: The primary purpose of this Act is to provide a legal framework for acting and making decisions on behalf of adults who lack the capacity to make decisions for themselves.
The Equality Act 2010: This Act ensures equal treatment of everyone regardless of their protected characteristics, which include age and disability.
The Human Rights Act 1998: This Act contains a list of 16 rights which all people in the UK have. It places a legal duty on public authorities to respect and protect our human rights in everything they do.
Safeguarding Adults Level 2 Training FAQs
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Yes, this course is both IIRSM approved & CPD accredited. We’re also a Skills for Care Endorsed Learning and Development Provider.
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This course will take 50 minutes to complete.
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There are a number of legislations which covers safeguarding adults requirements, these are:
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This course will provide guidance on a number of important safeguarding areas, where users can also work through our free worksheet. Following this, users will be asked 20-multiple choice questions related to the course, and if once passed they will receive a printable certificate.
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