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Level 5 Diploma in Health and Social Care Management

Instilling Preventative Cultures and Safe Practice

HSC502 · Managing the Safeguarding and Protection of Vulnerable Individuals — Week 7 of 16

CourseHSC502
Week7 of 16
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This week’s topics

Instilling Preventative Cultures and Safe Practice

  1. Safer recruitment practices
  2. Professional boundaries and code of conduct
  3. Embedding protective supervision and reflective practice
  4. Creating psychologically safe reporting climates
  5. Seven-eyed Model of Supervision Hawkins, Shohet, Ryde and Wilmot
  6. The 3Ps of professional practice

What you will be able to do

  • 2.3 Demonstrate how to inform others of the measures to be taken to avoid abuse taking place.
  • 2.4 Demonstrate how to articulate with others practice that maintains the safety and protection of vulnerable individuals.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: demonstrate how to inform others of the measures to be taken to avoid abuse taking place.

Study materials

Videos

  • Seven-eyed Model of Supervision Hawkins, Shohet, Ryde and Wilmot · YouTube · Joan Wilmot · 8 min · for registered students
  • The 3Ps of professional practice · YouTube · Siobhan Maclean · 11 min · for registered students
  • The 7-Eyed Model of Supervision · YouTube · Luke Hicken Psychotherapy · 41 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • The Cavendish Review: healthcare assistants and support workers in NHS and social care (2013) · Reading · GOV.UK, report · for registered students
  • DBS checks: detailed guidance (Disclosure and Barring Service) · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
  • Keeping children safe in education 2026 (DfE) · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance; 198 pages · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Foundations of Safeguarding and Protection
  • Week 2: Legislative Frameworks in Safeguarding
  • Week 3: Learning from Inquiries and Serious Case Reviews
  • Week 4: Recognising Signs of Abuse and Educating Teams
  • Week 5: Procedures for Responding to Suspected or Actual Abuse
  • Week 6: Balancing Positive Risk-Taking and Person-Centred Choice
  • Week 7: Instilling Preventative Cultures and Safe Practice
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Multi-Agency Partnership Working and Information Governance
  • Week 10: Service User Voice in Safeguarding Governance
  • Week 11: Auditing Organisational Practice and Policy Compliance
  • Week 12: Applying Managing the Safeguarding and Protection of Vulner…
  • 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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