Seeing and owning the risk
Safeguarding law, recognising abuse and board accountability.
Three hours on seeing and owning safeguarding risk: the law in Wales and England, why harm goes unseen, and what boards should truly see.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 3 hours
- Where
- Safeguarding for Leaders
- Price
- £69
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Leaders, managers and board members in councils, housing, health and charities
Overview
This Focus begins with safeguarding as a leadership responsibility, the leader's four jobs of culture, systems, assurance and learning, and a six-stage safeguarding cycle. It then compares two legal routes to one duty to protect: the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 and England's Care Act 2014, with Making Safeguarding Personal and the reasonable cause to suspect threshold. Next it examines why harm goes unseen, drawing on Brandon's start again syndrome and Lord Laming's respectful uncertainty, and how closed cultures form, using the Care Quality Commission's warning signs, the bystander effect and Diane Vaughan's normalisation of deviance. It closes with board accountability, the Oxfam GB Haiti case and the difference between reassurance and assurance.
Aims
This programme aims to develop leaders and board members who understand their safeguarding duties in both nations, notice the early signs of harm and closing cultures, and hold safeguarding to account through real assurance rather than comfortable reassurance.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Explain the safeguarding duties that apply to your organisation in Wales and England, including the reasonable cause to suspect threshold and person-led practice.
- Assess whether a service may be developing a closed culture, using warning signs, workforce data, voice and outside links rather than relying on a clean record.
- Lead board oversight of safeguarding that seeks evidence-based assurance, knowing which tasks can be delegated and where accountability always remains with the board.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Apply the six-stage safeguarding cycle and the spectrum from prevention to protection to identify the strongest and weakest areas in your own organisation.
- Compare the main safeguarding duties, boards, procedures and review routes in Wales and England, and identify which apply to your own organisation.
- Explain why harm goes unseen, including disguised compliance, the start again syndrome, normalisation and fixed optimism, and how professional curiosity counters them.
- Use data, workforce information, voice, unannounced visits and outside links to judge whether a service may be developing a closed culture.
- Assess the Oxfam GB case and the Charity Commission's inquiry findings to identify governance and culture failures that boards should recognise in themselves.
- Distinguish reassurance from assurance and set out the information your board needs to know whether safeguarding is working.
Built from 2 parts.
3 hours of learning.
- 01The leader's dutySafeguarding responsibility, law and recognising abuseBitesize3 modules
- 02When the culture is the riskClosed cultures and board accountabilityBitesize2 modules
Keep going.
Part of the Safeguarding for Leaders topic, also sold whole as Keeping people safe.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereFocus, 3 hours, £69
- The whole topicExplore, Keeping people safe, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Focus? You pay £60.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Seen, safe and heard