Designated Safeguarding Lead (F2F)
This course introduces the role of the Designated Safeguarding Lead, helping learners manage safeguarding concerns and promote effective safeguarding practice.
Learning Outcomes
The Designated Safeguarding Lead course provides learners with a comprehensive understanding of the responsibilities and expectations of the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) role. Participants will explore how the DSL leads safeguarding practice within their organisation, ensuring concerns are identified, managed appropriately, and responded to in line with current legislation and statutory guidance.
The course examines the roles and responsibilities of the Designated Safeguarding Lead, helping learners understand how to establish and promote a strong safeguarding culture within their setting. Participants will explore the difference between safeguarding concerns and quality complaints, ensuring that issues are managed through the appropriate processes.
Learners will gain an understanding of how organisational safeguarding policies and procedures fit within the wider legislative and statutory safeguarding framework. The training emphasises the importance of responding to all safeguarding concerns, including low-level concerns, and ensuring responses are proportionate to an individual’s level of need in line with local safeguarding thresholds.
The session also explores what makes an effective safeguarding referral, helping participants understand how to gather, record, and communicate relevant information accurately. Learners will examine their role in safeguarding assessments and any subsequent interventions, including working collaboratively with other professionals to achieve positive outcomes.
Participants will also consider how to respond when they disagree with safeguarding decisions or actions taken by other agencies, understanding appropriate escalation procedures and professional challenge. In addition, the course covers the principles of information sharing, including when it is appropriate to share information, who it should be shared with, and how information should be recorded and stored securely in line with legal and organisational requirements.
Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on developing the knowledge and confidence required to fulfil the Designated Safeguarding Lead role effectively, ensuring safeguarding concerns are managed consistently, professionally, and in the best interests of those at risk.
By the end of this course, participants will understand the roles and responsibilities of a Designated Safeguarding Lead, respond appropriately to safeguarding concerns, make effective referrals, apply safeguarding legislation and local thresholds, and manage information sharing and record keeping in line with statutory guidance.
- Understand and describe their roles and responsibilities as the Designated Safeguarding Lead
- Understand the policies and procedures in the setting sit within the legislative and statutory guidance safeguarding framework
- Understand the need to respond to all safeguarding concerns, including low-level concerns.
- Understand what makes a good referral.
- Understand and explain their role in any assessment process and/or interventions put in place following the assessment.
- Recognise when and if it is appropriate to share information and with whom and understand how information should be recorded and stored.
- £65.00(Premium Members)
- £75.00(Professional Members)
- £125.00(Non-Members)
In order to attend any of these sessions a booking form needs to be completed (even for sessions ‘Free to Members’, as we need to account for room capacity and a fair distribution of free places among organisations).