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High-Risk Safeguarding Scenarios

These scenarios describe high-risk safeguarding situations where signs may be brief, the risk may be urgent, and a wrong response could increase harm. Apply the same Level 2 steps: notice, respond calmly, record accurately, and escalate using the correct route.
You are working at the medicines counter when a woman in her twenties arrives with two family members to collect a repeat prescription. She has a learning disability and has visited before with support staff, but today her relatives answer every question for her. When you ask if she is well, she quietly says, "I don't want to go abroad to get married," before one relative sharply tells her to be quiet and says the family is travelling next week. The woman looks frightened and avoids eye contact.
How should you respond?
You are delivering medicines to a multi-occupancy property. A man answers the door, but another adult quickly steps in, takes the medicines, and insists on speaking for him. The man looks exhausted, has a healing cut on his hand, and seems unsure of the address when you mention it. He avoids eye contact and does not appear free to answer questions. The other adult becomes impatient and says he needs to get back to work.
What concerns and actions are appropriate?
These examples show why high-risk safeguarding concerns must be taken seriously even when information is fragmented and the adult cannot speak freely.
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- Length: 90 minutes CPD (1.50 CE Credits)
- Appropriate for: dispensers, medicines counter assistants, pharmacy reception staff, delivery drivers, dispensing assistants, pharmacy assistants, new pharmacy staff, pharmacy managers
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Mecourse Lifelong Learning (2026) ‘High-Risk Safeguarding Scenarios’. Birmingham, UK: Mecourse Lifelong Learning [Online]. Available at: https://www.mecourse.com/safeguarding-adults-at-risk-for-non-clinical-pharmacy-workers-high-risk-safeguarding-scenarios [Accessed 13 May 2026].
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Mecourse Lifelong Learning. High-Risk Safeguarding Scenarios [Internet]. Birmingham, UK: Mecourse Lifelong Learning; 2026 Apr 10 (updated 2026-04-15) [cited 2026 May 13]. Available from: https://www.mecourse.com/safeguarding-adults-at-risk-for-non-clinical-pharmacy-workers-high-risk-safeguarding-scenarios.
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Mecourse Lifelong Learning. “High-Risk Safeguarding Scenarios.” 2026. https://www.mecourse.com/safeguarding-adults-at-risk-for-non-clinical-pharmacy-workers-high-risk-safeguarding-scenarios. Accessed May 13, 2026.
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Mecourse Lifelong Learning. (2026, April 10). High-Risk Safeguarding Scenarios. https://www.mecourse.com/safeguarding-adults-at-risk-for-non-clinical-pharmacy-workers-high-risk-safeguarding-scenarios
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Mecourse Lifelong Learning, “High-Risk Safeguarding Scenarios.” Mecourse Lifelong Learning. https://www.mecourse.com/safeguarding-adults-at-risk-for-non-clinical-pharmacy-workers-high-risk-safeguarding-scenarios (Accessed: May 13, 2026).
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Mecourse Lifelong Learning. High-Risk Safeguarding Scenarios. Mecourse Lifelong Learning. Published April 10, 2026. Updated April 15, 2026. Accessed May 13, 2026. https://www.mecourse.com/safeguarding-adults-at-risk-for-non-clinical-pharmacy-workers-high-risk-safeguarding-scenarios.
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