Safeguarding adults for those not in social care: e-learning course

Safeguarding adults is everybody’s business. We all have a responsibility to help prevent abuse and to act quickly.

This course is an introduction to safeguarding adults for people who don’t work in the health or social care sector, but who still have a role to play in keeping people at risk safe.

The course will help you understand the key principles of adult safeguarding, how to recognise the types and indicators of abuse, and how to report and respond to concerns.

Course content

  • Safeguarding adults: an introduction
  • What does safeguarding mean?
  • What could I do?
  • Why is safeguarding important?
  • How to report and respond to concerns

Learning outcomes

  • Describe the key principles of adult safeguarding
  • Recognise types and indicators of abuse
  • Describe the key difference between adult and child safeguarding
  • Identify what is meant by abuse and neglect
  • Outline how to report and respond to concerns

Purchase for you and your colleagues

Standard price per learner: £55.00 + VAT

Discounts applied for orders of multiple licences.

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Frequently asked questions

For people who don’t work in the health or social care sector, but who still have a role to play in keeping people at risk safe.

It is not designed for experienced safeguarding leads or local authority staff with additional safeguarding responsibilities.

  • Section 1 – Safeguarding adults: an introduction
  • Section 2 – What does safeguarding mean?
  • Section 3 – What could I do?
  • Section 4 – Why is safeguarding important?
  • Section 5 – How to report and respond to concerns
  • Section 6 – Useful links

This is always a difficult question to answer as no two people are the same. There are a number of factors to consider such as level of knowledge, reading speed and in which order the course is completed.

For that reason, our estimates are really quite broad. Analytics shows that learners take an average of two hours to study the course.

If you are interested in hosting this e-learning course and/or the assessment, on your Learning Management System (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) we are able to help. We can provide:
  • Course content: A SCORM 1.2 or 2004 compliant version of the course.
  • Course updates: We will supply you with course updates for an agreed period of time.
  • Custom changes: We can help by making custom changes to the course to meet your specific learning and development needs.
Contact us to find out more about bringing our course to your learners on your platform.

v1 (September 2022) Original release.

  • The price stated is exclusive of VAT. Customers will be charged VAT at the UK’s standard rate in addition to the price stated.
  • On receipt of payment, we’ll issue you, the customer, with course invite(s).
  • You, the customer, will be able to issue course invites to your learners. Each learner must have a unquie and working email address, and must sign-up (or log into their existing) MySCIE account to accept the invite. MySCIE accounts are free.
  • Course invites must be issued to, and accepted by, learners, within 90 days of purchase, otherwise the invite will expire.
  • Learners are required to agree that their course progress is shared with you, the customer, before they can access the course.
  • From accepting the invite, the learner will have 90 days access to the course.
  • Please check the recommended devices / web browsers for this course, before purchase.
  • Please check who this course is for, before purchase.
  • An internet connection is required, with the ability to stream video content from YouTube.
  • All material in these resources, including text, graphics, photographs, video and audio is copyright of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), unless otherwise stated.
  • Although SCIE’s courses have been used over many years with almost no reported problems, SCIE cannot provide technical support for their implementation or to investigate or fix any reported technical problems, nor does it warrant that they are fully compliant with all or any technical platform. Please review the recommended devices / web browsers advice.
  • Video scenarios have been produced using actors. This approach has been adopted to protect the identities of individuals whose accounts have been drawn upon to create the scenarios. The professional reflections are provided by experts (i.e. real people) whose professional responsibilities involve ensuring the safeguarding of adults at risk.

SCIE recommends using the latest versions of device operating software and browsers to access our e-learning courses. The minimum technical requirements are (depending on your setup):
  • Chrome: Latest version
  • Firefox: Latest version
  • Microsoft Edge: Latest version
  • Safari: Latest version
  • iOS: 10
  • Android: Marshmallow (6.0)
This course has been tested on a selection of Apple and Android mobile and tablet devices, running the latest web browsers. SCIE cannot take responsibility if the course does not work on your particular device or software. Please note: Usage of Microsoft Internet Explorer, including IE 11, is not recommended.