Course Introduction
Our advanced safeguarding training for digital healthcare managers training programme equips senior health professionals with advanced safeguarding expertise, strengthening leadership, decision-making and multi-agency practice to protect children, young people and adults at risk across modern health and digital care settings.
Benefits of the course
- Safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance across the UK
- Interagency collaboration, governance and assurance
- Children’s safeguarding: risk, thresholds, voice of the child, digital risks
- Adult safeguarding: Care Act duties, Section 42 inquiries, self-neglect and MSP
Topics Covered
- Domestic abuse, coercive control and contextual safeguarding.
- Criminal exploitation, CSE, county lines & modern slavery
- Trauma-informed practice and effects of trauma on engagement and behaviour
- Digital healthcare safeguarding risks and management
- Professional supervision, organisational accountability & defensible decision-making
- Leadership responsibilities, culture, quality improvement and reflective practice.
Course Description
This Safeguarding course equips healthcare, managers and safeguarding leads with the knowledge and capabilities required under the Intercollegiate Documents for Safeguarding Children (RCN, 2025) and Adult Safeguarding (RCN, 2024). The programme strengthens advanced safeguarding literacy across child and adult practice, enabling participants to lead, supervise, quality-assure and coordinate safeguarding in a range of health settings, including digital and remote models of care.
Learners examine the legal, ethical and professional responsibilities of senior safeguarding roles, developing skills in decision-making, professional curiosity, trauma-informed practice, digital safeguarding, multi-agency working and system-wide leadership. Through legislation, national learning, applied case scenarios and reflective activities, the course builds both strategic and operational safeguarding competence.
On completion, participants will be able to recognise and respond to complex safeguarding concerns; manage organisational safeguarding duties; and promote a culture of safe, high-quality, person-centred care for children, young people and adults at risk.
Course Outcomes
See Topics Covered
Who The Course is For
Course Aimed at – Managers/Strategic Leaders
Technical Requirements
Laptop with audio and video access is required for all virtual training.
