Mandatory safeguarding training
Failures in ensuring all staff complete mandatory training, particularly safeguarding vulnerable adults and children.
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Mixed across source types and ranked by classifier confidence plus text match strength.
Inquiry recommendation
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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
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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
Inquiry recommendation
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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
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Hey Baby 4D Halifax
The service must implement effective systems and processes to ensure all staff are compliant with mandatory training, including but not limited to, safeguarding vulnerable adults and children, to a level appropriate for their role.
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
Inquiry recommendation
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26 - Youth Custody Service safeguarding training
The Chair and Panel recommend that the Youth Custody Service takes steps to ensure that its training provides staff with an appropriate understanding of safeguarding in the context of the secure estate, and that this is regularly reviewed and updated.
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terms: safeguarding, training
Committee recommendation
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#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
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We Can Recover CIC
Not all staff had Safeguarding Adults and Children training on how to recognise and report abuse, appropriate for their role. There were still gaps in safeguarding children level two training. For example, only one of the three therapy staff had completed level 2 safeguarding adult’s training and none of the therapy staff had competed level 2 safeguarding children’s...
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terms: safeguarding, training
Committee recommendation
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#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
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Bromsgrove
The service must ensure all staff receive mandatory training including safeguarding, the Mental Capacity Act and mandatory training on Learning Disability and Autism.(Regulation18(2)).
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terms: mandatory, safeguarding, training
PFD report
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Carol Taylor
No system prevents staff non-compliant with mandatory training, including basic life support, from working on inpatient wards, posing a particular risk to vulnerable elderly patients.
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terms: mandatory, training
PFD report
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John Rust
Mandatory training for automated CSF drainage systems is not adequately enforced, with many staff untrained. There's no sustainable plan to ensure all current and future clinical staff receive essential training on critical equipment.
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terms: mandatory, training
Committee recommendation
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#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
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Essex Shared Lives
The provider must ensure all shared live hosts have up to date and completed training relating to safeguarding vulnerable people.
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terms: safeguarding, training
IOPC learning recommendation
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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
Committee recommendation
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#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
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St Clare's Hospice
The provider must ensure safeguarding processes are developed to ensure all staff fully understand how to report, investigate and learn from safeguarding alerts. In addition, all staff must receive training in line with Intercollegiate guidance (2018)
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terms: safeguarding, training
CQC action
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Goldenley Care Home
The provider must ensure that all staff receive appropriate and up-to-date training in safeguarding people from abuse.
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terms: safeguarding, training
Inquiry recommendation
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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
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Rosecroft Residential Care Home
The provider is required to send us information on a monthly basis to evidence action plans resulting from audits conducted within the service of the training of all staff on safeguarding adults.
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terms: safeguarding, training
Inquiry recommendation
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31 - DBS and training compliance for Church officers
Individuals engaged in regulated activity who have failed to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service check or complete compulsory training should not be permitted to hold voluntary offices within the Church. Failure by ordained clergy to comply with either requirement should result in disciplinary proceedings.
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terms: training
Committee recommendation
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#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
CQC action
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Cheshire Hair Transplant Clinic Limited
The service must ensure that staff complete training in key areas, including safeguarding, to a level appropriate for their role and that staff can correctly identify and report abuse.
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terms: safeguarding, training
PPO recommendation
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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
CQC action
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Meet The Baby
The provider must ensure that there is a member of staff with level three children’s and adult safeguarding on site when the premises are open.
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terms: safeguarding
Committee recommendation
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#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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terms: mandatory
CQC action
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Specialist Medical Transport - North
The service must evidence that staff have received the required training in safeguarding to recognise and respond to the risk of abuse and keep service users safe from harm or the risk of harm.
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terms: safeguarding, training
CQC action
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London Hair Transplant Clinic
The service should ensure there is a named safeguarding lead who has completed at least level 4 safeguarding children training.
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terms: safeguarding, training
CQC action
64match
Aspirations (Northampton)
Not all staff had up to date training in fire safety, first aid and safeguarding. The training matrix evidenced that the compliance for these training sessions was between 37%-50%.
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terms: safeguarding, training
IOPC learning recommendation
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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. Do you accept the recommendation? Yes
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terms: mandatory, training
PFD report
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Adrian Balog
National safeguarding guidance for children omits "obesity" as a sign of neglect, contrasting with malnourishment, which risks failing to identify and protect obese children at risk.
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terms: safeguarding
PFD report
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Georgia Scarff
School staff unfamiliarity with the safeguarding system led to missed recordings. The lack of a single national safeguarding information management tool for schools creates inconsistent practices and risks.
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terms: safeguarding
Inquiry recommendation
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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
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#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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terms: mandatory
Inquiry recommendation
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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
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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
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#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
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#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
CQC action
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Baby Bump Limited
The service must have adequate systems and processes to prevent the abuse of service users. Staff must receive safeguarding training that is relevant, and suitable for their role, as outlined in the intercollegic guidance.
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terms: safeguarding, training
CQC action
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Sydenham House
Strengthen the system in place to monitor staff training appropriate to their role, including safeguarding.
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terms: safeguarding, training
CQC action
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Verve Health
The service must ensure staff understand how to protect service users from abuse, and how and when to make a safeguarding referral.
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terms: safeguarding
CQC action
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Worcestershire Imaging Centre
The provider must ensure there is a safeguarding lead and a member of staff has been trained to safeguarding children level three.
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terms: safeguarding
CQC action
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Harley Street Private Practice Limited
The service should ensure they continue to monitor mandatory training effectively.
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terms: mandatory, training
Committee recommendation
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#3 - Schools lack adequate time and funding for effective KCSiE guidance implementation.
The Government has updated the statutory Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance to include tackling peer-on-peer sexual harassment and sexual violence. This is a positive step to ensure that schools better protect children and young people from harmful sexual behaviour. However, schools need the appropriate time and money to implement the guidance properly and provide effective safeguarding training.
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terms: safeguarding, training
PFD report
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Gordon Thornhill
Incomplete VTE risk assessments by junior doctors, a consultant's failure to identify this and document their own assessment, and a significant delay in providing thromboprophylaxis.
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CQC action
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Talbot House
Staff would benefit from additional training in understanding what various forms of abuse look like in order to be able to identify concerns.
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terms: training
CQC action
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Percys Travel
The service did not ensure that staff were trained at a suitable level in line with the Intercollegiate guidance for Safeguarding for their roles and responsibilities.
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terms: safeguarding
IOPC learning recommendation
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Recommendations - Metropolitan Police Service, June 2024
The IOPC recommends that MPS takes steps to ensure that all police officers who regularly come into contact with members of the public, whether face-to-face or by some other means, receive training created by NPCC in 2021 on APSP. They should also ensure that an auditable record is made for each person, detailing that the training has been...
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terms: training
Committee recommendation
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#2 - Outdoor music festivals require higher safeguarding standards for their younger, more vulnerable attendees.
We believe that a more formal and higher standard is required for outdoor music festivals owing to the comparatively younger age of festival-goers and the additional vulnerability that arises from their camping over at such festivals.
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terms: safeguarding
Committee recommendation
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#13 - Mandate educational settings to ensure staff awareness of harassment policies and conduct background checks.
The OfS should also require educational settings to ensure that all staff, permanent, temporary and those visiting, are aware of policies around abuse and harassment, including the consequences of inappropriate behaviour. People invited to teach students should undergo background and reference checks and be in no doubt of expectations with regard to conduct. Eminent musicians should not be...
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terms: safeguarding
ICIBI recommendation
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An inspection of contingency asylum accommodation for families with children in Northern Ireland (May – June 2023)
The Home Office should strengthen assurance and monitoring arrangements to ensure accommodation providers, and their contractors and sub-contractors, are meeting all the standards set out in the Asylum Support Contracts Safeguarding Framework (May 2022), as well as the respective contractual requirements.
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terms: safeguarding