This week’s topics
Referral Pathways and Triggers
- Identifying unmet or specialist needs
- Safeguarding alert thresholds
- Statutory referral criteria
- Routine versus urgent referral protocols
- The duty to assess and identifying appearance of needs
- West Midlands Regional Webinar on Understanding the Legal Framework for Safeguarding Adults
- Safeguarding: A Regulator’s Perspective (December 2025)
What you will be able to do
- 2.3 Explain when to use the referral process for individuals.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain when to use the referral process for individuals.
Study materials
Videos
- The duty to assess and identifying appearance of needs · YouTube · Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) · 7 min · for registered students
- West Midlands Regional Webinar on Understanding the Legal Framework for Safeguarding Adults · YouTube · Walsall Safeguarding Partnership · 79 min · for registered students
- Safeguarding: A Regulator’s Perspective (December 2025) · YouTube · Partners in Care · 42 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
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
