Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults (SOVA) Level 3 & Safeguarding Children and Young Adults (POCA) Level 3

Safeguarding Children & Young People (POCA), Level 3 - Module 1 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
• Reporting Maltreatment
• Ethics and Handling Information

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

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This course has been verified by Skills for Health against the UK Core Skills Training Framework subject "Safeguarding children".