Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: Multi-agency Approach and Collaboration

About This Course

Learn how to protect vulnerable adults through a multidisciplinary approach in the course ‘Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: Multi-agency Approach and Collaboration’. Gain knowledge on collaborating with social services, medical professionals, and legal authorities.

Why Take This Course?

This course addresses the challenge of safeguarding vulnerable adults, which is a common problem faced by UK dental professionals. It provides education on multidisciplinary strategies for protecting vulnerable adults and emphasizes the importance of a multi-agency approach to safeguarding. The course covers collaboration with social services, medical professionals, and legal authorities, as well as techniques for effective collaboration and principles of information sharing and confidentiality. Overall, the course equips dental professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to work with other agencies to safeguard vulnerable adults and protect their well-being.

The course ‘Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: Multi-agency Approach and Collaboration’ is beneficial as it provides a comprehensive education on multidisciplinary strategies to protect vulnerable adults, including collaboration with social services, medical professionals, police, and legal authorities. The course covers the principles of information sharing, confidentiality, and effective collaboration, as well as practical scenarios and case studies to reinforce learning. The course also emphasizes the importance of working with various agencies and concludes with a review quiz to reinforce knowledge and skills.

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How This Course Supports GDC Enhanced Dental CPD

“Dental professionals have a duty to keep their knowledge and skills up to date. A primary qualification is only the first step in their education and development which should last throughout their professional life” General Dental Council

Learning Objectives	Anticipated Outcomes
1: By the end of this course, students will be able to understand the concept, benefits, and challenges of a multi-agency approach to safeguarding.	1: Upon completion of the course, students are expected to effectively employ a multi-agency approach to safeguarding vulnerable adults within their practices.
2: Upon completion, learners will have the capacity to collaborate effectively with social services in the context of safeguarding.	2: As a result of this course, learners will likely influence their work environments by strengthening relationships with social services and other medical professionals for safeguarding purposes.
3: Students will demonstrate their ability to work with a range of medical professionals in safeguarding vulnerable adults.	3: The course should lead to enhanced inter-agency cooperation, leading to improved safeguarding outcomes for vulnerable adults.
4: By the final session, participants will have mastered the techniques of cooperating with police and legal authorities in cases of suspected abuse.	4: In the wider context, the course aims to contribute to an improved safeguarding environment, promoting cooperation and shared responsibility at all levels.
5: At the course’s conclusion, attendees will be able to summarise key principles of multi-agency collaboration in safeguarding vulnerable adults.	5: Following the course, the expectation is that students will be competent in handling multi-agency collaboration and display leadership in promoting this approach in their workplaces.

Regulatory Standards

GDC	CQC
✅ A – Effective Communication ✅ B – Effective Management ✅ C – Maintenance in Field of Practice ✅ D – Maintenance in Patient Confidence	✅ Caring ✅ Effective ✅ Leadership ✅ Responsive ✅ Safe

🕐 60 minutes of Enhanced Dental CPD

Course Description

The course, ‘Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: Multi-agency Approach and Collaboration’, is aimed at educating participants on multidisciplinary strategies to protect vulnerable adults. First, it lays out the definition, importance, benefits, and challenges of a multi-agency approach to safeguarding, focusing on the role of the dental team. It illustrates these points through a case study on effective multi-agency collaboration. The course then delves into the collaboration with social services, highlighting their role in safeguarding, principles of information sharing and confidentiality, and techniques for effective collaboration. It also teaches how to interpret social service reports through a practical scenario. Next, it explores working with medical professionals including general practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists, physical and occupational therapists, and hospital and ambulatory care staff. A case study examining a collaboration between various health professionals is also provided. The course also covers cooperation with police and legal authorities, discussing the necessary steps for reporting abuse, navigating legal proceedings, testifying in court as a dental professional, and managing media and public relations. A practical workshop on handling legal and police matters is also included. Lastly, the course summarizes the key principles of multi-agency approach and collaboration, emphasizing the importance of working with social services, healthcare professionals, and legal authorities. It concludes with a review quiz to reinforce the knowledge and skills gained.

Course Outline

Section 1

Section 1 of the course “Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults: Multi-agency Approach and Collaboration” covers the understanding of multi-agency approach, collaboration with social services, working with medical professionals, cooperation with police and legal authorities, and a course summary. The section discusses the definition, importance, benefits, and challenges of multi-agency working, as well as the role of dental teams in multi-agency safeguarding. It also covers information sharing, confidentiality, collaboration techniques, interpreting reports, and scenarios for collaborating with social services. Furthermore, the section explores collaboration with general practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists, physical and occupational therapists, and consultation with hospital and ambulatory care. It also discusses reporting to police in cases of abuse, understanding legal proceedings, testifying in court as a dental professional, managing media and public relations, and handling legal and police matters through a workshop. Finally, the section summarizes the course objectives and learning outcomes through a review quiz.

Section 2

Section 2 of this course covers the multi-agency approach to safeguarding vulnerable adults, including understanding the definition, importance, benefits, and challenges of multi-agency working. It also covers collaboration with social services, medical professionals, and police and legal authorities, including information sharing, interpreting reports, and testifying in court as a dental professional. The course concludes with a summary of the key concepts and a review quiz.

Section 3

Section 3 of the course focuses on working with medical professionals, including general practitioners, psychiatrists, physical and occupational therapists, and hospital and ambulatory care, as well as cooperating with police and legal authorities. This section also includes understanding social services’ role in safeguarding, information sharing and confidentiality, and collaboration techniques with social services. The course emphasizes effective multi-agency collaboration and provides case studies and scenarios to illustrate best practices.

Section 4

Section 4 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults course covers the topic of Cooperation with Police and Legal Authorities. This section includes understanding legal proceedings, reporting to police in cases of abuse, testifying in court as a dental professional, managing media and public relations, and a workshop on handling legal and police matters.

Section 5

Section 5 of this course covers the summary of the multi-agency approach and collaboration in safeguarding vulnerable adults. It includes working with social services and healthcare professionals, cooperating with police and legal authorities, reflecting on course objectives and learning outcomes, and a review quiz on multi-agency approach and collaboration.

Course Reviews

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The course provided valuable insight into the importance of collaboration with social services and other healthcare professionals when safeguarding vulnerable adults. The case studies were especially helpful in demonstrating effective collaboration strategies.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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I found the practical workshop on handling legal and police matters to be particularly useful. The course provided clear guidance on navigating legal proceedings and testifying in court as a dental professional.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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The course was comprehensive in its coverage of multi-agency approach and collaboration. I appreciated the emphasis on interpreting social service reports and the techniques for effective collaboration with medical professionals.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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