Basic Adult Safeguarding

This interactive session provides staff and volunteers with a practical introduction to safeguarding and their responsibilities for helping to keep people safe.

Participants will explore what safeguarding means in everyday community and voluntary sector settings, including how organisations can prevent harm, abuse, neglect, bullying and harassment, and why safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility.

The session introduces the six key principles of adult safeguarding and considers how empowerment, prevention, proportionality, protection, partnership and accountability can be applied in practice.

Participants will learn about different forms of abuse, including physical, sexual, psychological, financial, discriminatory and organisational abuse, neglect, self-neglect and modern slavery.

Through discussion, scenarios and interactive activities, the session also explores professional boundaries and some of the everyday situations that can develop into safeguarding concerns, such as giving out personal contact details, offering lifts, physical contact and lending money.

By the end of the session, participants will be better able to:

• understand what safeguarding means and why it matters;

• recognise different types and possible indicators of abuse;

• understand who may be at increased risk of harm or exploitation;

• recognise when boundaries or everyday situations could become safeguarding concerns;

• understand their individual responsibility to safeguard others; and

• know the importance of reporting concerns or disclosures promptly and appropriately.