Managing a Safeguarding Disclosure | Training
Talking about abuse can be really stressful. If someone comes to you for help, they need to feel safe and supported. They need to be heard, and their disclosure needs to be taken seriously. Managing a safeguarding disclosure involves handling concerns about abuse sensitively and effectively. Anyone could be trusted with a disclosure, particularly if your job involves close contact with children or vulnerable adults. If you find yourself in this position, you have a responsibility to respond appropriately and to do what you can to prevent any further harm from occurring.
• Recognise how to support people’s feelings so they feel safe and comfortable talking about abuse• Identify appropriate responses for a safe disclosure• Demonstrate how to record and report a disclosure effectively
Taking this online training course will help you understand how to support people’s feelings, so they feel safe and comfortable talking about abuse. It also explores how you should respond to them to keep them safe, and how to record and report a disclosure effectively. So, by taking this course, you’ll be able to make sure that anyone who makes a disclosure to you gets the best possible support.
This ‘safeguarding basics’ course is for people who work with children or vulnerable adults, or anyone else who wants to be approachable and supportive to victims of abuse. Knowing how to support someone when they decide to make a disclosure is a vital part of safeguarding because it’s the first step to getting help.
Everyone has the right to learn and learner need can vary demanding on environment or disabilities. This course comes with transcripts so people have text options for an media, subtitles for all videos and is screen reader friendly with alternative text.We take a number of steps to ensure visuals and navigation is easy for your people. For more information on the steps we take for accessibility check out how we make our courses.
