Safeguarding Adults – Level 2 Training Reviews

I enjoyed taking this course and I feel I learnt so much in a short space of time. The information was delivered clearly and accurately.I would thoroughly recommend it.

As a retired social worker I found this training module very frustrating and quite frankly not appropriate to my volunteer role. Primarily this was due to the training being based on English legislation and language around Adult Protection. In Scotland we use the terminology "Adult Protection" and not safeguarding. We also define an adult at risk in Scotland as someone over the age of 16 – not 18. I think it is important that if we are to provide any sort of training to volunteers regarding adults at risk, it needs to be relevant to where we live. Further, this training is relevant to people working in a care setting, not in a retail setting. Having this training as part of induction at best might be confusing to volunteers due to frequency of the use of terms such as "people you care for"and at worst may be dangerous if a volunteer

This training is relevant to people working in a care setting. As such it is not relevant to retail volunteers and could be potentially confusing to volunteers due to frequency of the use of terms such as "people you care for"