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Safeguarding is part of everyday residential care. Abuse and harm in care homes and nursing homes can arise from neglect, poor practice, coercion, financial misuse, unsafe restrictive practice, discriminatory treatment, psychological abuse, sexual abuse, or repeated failures to meet basic needs.

This course is for care assistants, senior carers, support workers, team leaders, supervisors and other frontline staff in residential and nursing homes and similar adult social care settings. It explains what staff need to notice, do, record and report in day-to-day practice.

This is a UK-wide course. It uses the Care Act 2014, CQC Regulation 13, NICE care-home safeguarding guidance and the Care Certificate as England examples, while recognising that Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland use their own safeguarding frameworks.

Four-nations safeguarding note

The practical aim is clear: protect adults from abuse and neglect, respond without delay, and do so while respecting the person's dignity, wishes, communication needs, rights and wellbeing.