Mandatory safeguarding training
Failures in ensuring all staff complete mandatory training, particularly safeguarding vulnerable adults and children.
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Inquiry recommendation
100match
61 - Nationally accredited safeguarding training in schools
The Department for Education and the Welsh Government should: set nationally accredited standards and levels of safeguarding training in schools; make the highest level of safeguarding training mandatory for headteachers, designated safeguarding leads in England or designated safeguarding persons in Wales, designated safeguarding governors, or the proprietor or head of the proprietorial body; and undertake an urgent review...
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
Inquiry recommendation
100match
48 - Mandatory Catholic safeguarding training
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales should ensure that safeguarding training is mandatory for all staff and volunteers in roles where they work with children or victims and survivors of abuse. It should also be a requirement that regular refresher training is completed. The training should consider the impact of child sexual abuse, including the impact...
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
CQC action
100match
Stroud Maternity Hospital
The service must ensure staff are up-to-date with mandatory safeguarding training. Regulation 12(1)(2)(c).
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
Inquiry recommendation
99match
53 - Lambeth councillor safeguarding training
All Lambeth Council elected members should receive training on: (i) safeguarding and (ii) corporate parenting. Newly elected members should receive training on these matters as soon as possible following their election. Training should be mandatory and repeated on a regular basis. The training content should be regularly reviewed and updated.
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
CQC action
95match
University College Hospital & Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing
The service should continue to ensure all staff complete mandatory training, including advance life support and safeguarding adults and children’s training in line with the trust’s own targets.
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
CQC action
93match
The Princess Royal Hospital
The service must ensure all staff complete mandatory and legally required training and medical staff complete safeguarding children’s level 3 training in line with trust targets.
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
CQC action
93match
Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
The service must ensure all staff complete mandatory and legally required training and medical staff complete safeguarding children’s level 3 training in line with trust targets.
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
CQC action
89match
William Harvey Hospital
The trust must ensure medical and nursing staff are up to date with mandatory training in key skills. This includes safeguarding adults and children training to the appropriate level.
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
CQC action
89match
The Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury
The service must ensure staff complete all mandatory training, including safeguarding training as well as role specific training modules such as CTG training and are competent in carrying out CTGs.
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
Committee recommendation
86match
#1 - Mandate compulsory safeguarding training for all staff, including vendors, at music festivals.
We recommend that all staff working at music festivals, including vendors, be given compulsory safeguarding training, and this be a requirement that licensing authorities consider when approving events. This might be done along lines similar to training provided in voluntary schemes in other licensed premises, such as Ask Angela or the licensing security and vulnerability initiative (Licensing SAVI).
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terms: safeguarding, training
CQC action
85match
West Cumberland Hospital
The trust must ensure that mandatory training including resuscitation, infection prevention and control and safeguarding meet the trust target for all staff.Regulation12(1)(2)(c).
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
CQC action
85match
The Ipswich Hospital
The service must ensure staff complete mandatory and safeguarding training in line with the trust target.
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
CQC action
85match
Royal Stoke University Hospital
The service must ensure staff are up to date with maternity mandatory training modules, including safeguarding adults and child protection training.
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
Inquiry recommendation
82match
4 - Safeguarding and contracts of employment
i. All Trusts must provide safeguarding training to all staff (appropriate to their role and expertise) and Board members, including Non-Executive Directors. This training should include how to deal with concerns and suspicions about deliberate harm caused by staff. ii. By March 2027, every existing contract of employment for work in an NHS hospital must be amended to...
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terms: safeguarding, training
Committee recommendation
82match
#20 - Ensure FCDO-funded aid programme staff receive training to recognise and signpost safeguarding concerns.
People accessing SRHR services may be vulnerable, such as adolescents. The FCDO should ensure that staff who are delivering FCDO-funded aid programmes receive training to be able to recognise safeguarding concerns when interacting with aid recipients. These staff should be empowered to signpost aid recipients to the appropriate services and support.
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terms: safeguarding, training
CQC action
81match
Westmorland General Hospital
The trust should take appropriate actions to improve staff mandatory training, including safeguarding training in line with trust compliance targets.
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
CQC action
81match
The York Hospital
The service should ensure ED medical staff complete their required level of safeguarding training, especially for safeguarding children.
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terms: safeguarding, training
CQC action
81match
Scarborough Hospital
The service should ensure ED medical staff complete their required level of safeguarding training, especially for safeguarding children.
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terms: safeguarding, training
CQC action
81match
Salford Royal Hospital
The trust must ensure that staff receive training in key skills including mandatory training including resuscitation, safeguarding and Practical Obstetric Multi-Professional Training (PROMPT) appropriate to their role.
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CQC action
81match
Royal Lancaster Infirmary
The service must ensure medical staff are compliant with their mandatory training including safeguarding level 3.
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
CQC action
81match
Rochdale Infirmary
The trust must ensure that staff receive training in key skills including mandatory training including resuscitation, safeguarding and Practical Obstetric Multi-Professional Training (PROMPT) appropriate to their role.
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
PFD report
77match
Carol Taylor
The coroner identified no system to prevent staff non-compliant with mandatory training, including basic life support, from working on in-patient wards, which is particularly relevant for elderly patients at higher risk of medical collapse.
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Committee recommendation
77match
#11 - Department has robust three-tier safeguarding framework for cadets, including DBS checks and training.
The Department also described in its letter the cadet safeguarding arrangements that it has in place. Each of the armed forces is responsible for safeguarding its cadets, but they adhere to the same basic safeguarding principles set out in the Department’s Cadet Safeguarding Framework. All adult volunteers and cadet-facing RFCA employees must have the correct disclosure and barring...
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terms: safeguarding, training
CQC action
77match
Royal Victoria Infirmary
The service must ensure that all staff complete safeguarding training appropriate to their role.
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terms: safeguarding, training
IOPC learning recommendation
77match
Recommendations - Cleveland Police, May 2022
The IOPC recommends that Cleveland police should identify all officers and staff who must undergo it's mandatory child sexual exploitation (CSE) training packages. The force should maintain accurate and auditable records of all officers and staff who have attended such training packages. This follows an IOPC investigation whereby, historically, frontline and neighbourhood police officers were not aware of...
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terms: mandatory, training
CQC action
75match
Queen's Medical Centre
The trust should ensure that all staff receive mandatory training to enable them to recognise, report abuse and provide safe and effective care to women and babies.
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terms: mandatory, training
CQC action
75match
Nottingham City Hospital
The trust should ensure that all staff receive mandatory training to enable them to recognise, report abuse and provide safe and effective care to women and babies.
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terms: mandatory, training
PFD report
73match
John Rust
The coroner raised concerns about the lack of mandatory and sustainable training for clinical staff on automated CSF drainage systems, noting only 55% of relevant staff were trained with no clear plan for future staff in a high-rotation department.
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terms: mandatory, training
Committee recommendation
73match
#12 - 1st Report – Raising the standard: licensing of taxis and private hire vehicles
We agree with the minister that every local authority must require drivers to have an enhanced DBS check and to be checked against the adults’ and children’s barring lists. We also recommend that requirements for safeguarding training and clear requirements for frequency of re- checking DBS certificates be included in national standards so that they are applied uniformly...
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terms: safeguarding, training
CQC action
73match
The Royal Oldham Hospital
The trust should consider what actions the service can take to improve safeguarding adults and safeguarding children level three training rates for doctors.
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terms: safeguarding, training
CQC action
73match
Saint Mary's Hospital
The service must ensure that staff complete safeguarding training appropriate to their roles. Regulation 12(1)(2)(c)
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terms: safeguarding, training
Inquiry recommendation
73match
R16 - Interview training for headteachers
Head teachers and school governors should receive training on how to ensure that interviews to appoint staff reflect the importance of safeguarding children.
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terms: safeguarding, training
CQC action
69match
The County Hospital
The provider must ensure it has sufficient numbers of suitably qualified, competent, skilled and experienced staff who receive such appropriate training to carry out the duties they are employed to perform and ensure staff are trained to the right competency in safeguarding and life support. The provider must have sufficient medical staff to run the department safely and...
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terms: safeguarding, training
CQC action
69match
St Albans City Hospital
The trust must ensure medical staff are up to date with safeguarding training.
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terms: safeguarding, training
CQC action
69match
Royal Sussex County Hospital
The trust should review safeguarding arrangements in line with the intercollegiate guidance for safeguarding to ensure staff training is suitable for frontline staff.
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terms: safeguarding, training
CQC action
69match
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
The trust should ensure that compliance with safeguarding training compliance continues to improve.
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terms: safeguarding, training
Committee recommendation
69match
#5 - Set out progress on police and safeguarding professionals' honour-based abuse training
In response to this Report, the Government should set out the progress made in implementing the national training package for frontline police officers on recognising so-called honour-based abuse. The Government must also set out the steps it will take to ensure those working in other safeguarding roles, including in social services and education, are trained to recognise honour-based...
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terms: safeguarding, training
PPO recommendation
68match
The Head of Healthcare
The Head of Healthcare should ensure that healthcare staff are compliant in the correct level of safeguarding training in accordance with their roles as set out in the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Intercollegiate Document for ‘Adult Safeguarding: Roles and Competencies for Health Care Staff’ (2018).
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terms: safeguarding, training
PFD report
65match
Georgia Scarff
The coroner noted that not all staff at Royal Hospital School were proficient in using the CPOMS safeguarding system, leading to information not being recorded. There is also no single national safeguarding information management tool for schools, which could result in important details being missed due to staff unfamiliarity.
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terms: safeguarding
Committee recommendation
64match
#54 - Mandate SEND continuing professional development for all educators via qualification or module incorporation.
SEND CPD should be made mandatory to ensure that all educators are equipped to meet the diverse needs of children and young people with SEND. This could be achieved through a nationally recognised supplementary qualification in SEND that all existing teachers must complete within a defined timeframe (e.g. three years), similar to the Early Career Framework but focused...
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IOPC learning recommendation
63match
Recommendations - Cleveland Police, February 2021
The IOPC recommends Cleveland Police reviews its management systems for performance and training to ensure there are robust mechanisms in place to ensure staff comply with all mandatory training packages, while ensuring performance reviews are carried out and maintained.
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terms: mandatory, training
PFD report
61match
Gordon Thornhill
Junior doctors did not fully complete mandatory VTE risk assessments, and a consultant's assessment did not identify this issue nor was it documented. There was also a delay exceeding 24 hours in providing thromboprophylaxis.
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PFD report
61match
Adrian Balog
National safeguarding guidance documents do not include childhood obesity as a sign or symptom of neglect. The coroner noted this absence is a concern, with public health experts suggesting it should be included to protect children.
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terms: safeguarding
Inquiry recommendation
61match
WATE-(13) - Arrange sexual abuse awareness training for social services and other staff
Area Child Protection Committees should arrange training in sexual abuse awareness for social services staff and for those from other departments, agencies and organisations in their area.
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terms: training
Committee recommendation
61match
#52 - Mandatory SEND-specific continuing professional development for educators remains absent.
It is deeply concerning that SEND-specific continuing professional development (CPD) is not mandatory. The education workforce must be consistently equipped with up-to-date, evidence-based knowledge through ongoing CPD to ensure an inclusive mainstream with high-quality support for children and young people with SEND. (Conclusion, Paragraph 209)
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Inquiry recommendation
61match
55 - Religious organisation child protection policies
All religious organisations should have a child protection policy and supporting procedures, which should include advice and guidance on responding to disclosures of abuse and the needs of victims and survivors. The policy and procedures should be updated regularly, with professional child protection advice, and all organisations should have regular compulsory training for those in leadership positions and...
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terms: training
Inquiry recommendation
61match
WATE-(14) - Remind professionals of their role in identifying and reporting child abuse
Steps should be taken through training and professional and other channels periodically to remind persons outside social services departments who are or may be in regular contact with looked after children, such as teachers, medical practitioners, nurses and police officers, of their potential role in identifying and reporting abuse, the importance of that role and the procedures available...
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terms: training
Committee recommendation
60match
#27 - 1st Report – Raising the standard: licensing of taxis and private hire vehicles
National standards should include mandatory disability awareness and equality training for drivers and operators, to be provided to a high minimum standard of quality, with clear refresher requirements and effective enforcement against non-compliance. (Recommendation, Paragraph 104)
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terms: mandatory, training
Committee recommendation
60match
#1 - Ensure all schools recognise sexual harassment seriousness and receive funding for effective safeguarding.
Sexual harassment and sexual violence continues to be a scourge in our schools, with many girls and women feeling powerless. The issues are longstanding and warnings have been frequent, including from our predecessor Committee. It is saddening that it took the public testimonies of thousands of school-aged children for Ofsted and the schools they inspect to acknowledge the...
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terms: safeguarding
PFD report
57match
Edward Bilbey
England Boxing lacked adequate and enforceable child protection and safeguarding measures, along with a policy for checking compliance. This resulted in outdated welfare officer information and registered inactive coaches at a club.
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terms: safeguarding