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Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Health and Social Care

Multi-agency safeguarding frameworks

HSC304 · Health, Safety and Wellbeing in Health and Social Care Settings — Week 11 of 16

CourseHSC304
Week11 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Multi-agency safeguarding frameworks

  1. Roles of local authority safeguarding teams
  2. Police involvement and forensic considerations
  3. Health trusts and care regulators
  4. Multi-disciplinary referral pathways
  5. Safeguarding: A Regulator’s Perspective (December 2025)
  6. Sexual assault referral centres animation
  7. Understanding how Adult Social Care works Webinar

What you will be able to do

  • 3.2 Explain the action to take if there are suspicions that an individual is being abused.
  • 3.4 Explain the roles of different agencies in safeguarding and protecting individuals from abuse.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain the action to take if there are suspicions that an individual is being abused.

Study materials

Videos

  • Safeguarding: A Regulator’s Perspective (December 2025) · YouTube · Partners in Care · 42 min · for registered students
  • Sexual assault referral centres animation · YouTube · NHS England · 5 min · for registered students
  • Understanding how Adult Social Care works Webinar · YouTube · Somerset Council · 36 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Care and support statutory guidance (Care Act 2014, DHSC) · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
  • Safeguarding adults in care homes (NICE guideline NG189, 2021) · Reading · Nice, guidance · for registered students
  • Working together to safeguard children 2023 (DfE) · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Health and safety legislation and workplace policies
  • Week 2: Workplace responsibilities and mandatory training requireme…
  • Week 3: Principles of safe moving and handling
  • Week 4: Safe handling of hazardous substances
  • Week 5: The chain of infection and transmission pathways
  • Week 6: Infection control practices and personal hygiene
  • Week 7: Safeguarding definitions and primary abuse types
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Further categories of abuse and vulnerability factors
  • Week 10: Responding to concerns, suspicions, and disclosures
  • Week 11: Multi-agency safeguarding frameworks
  • Week 12: Applying Health, Safety and Wellbeing in Health and Social …
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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