Contents
Purpose of the strategy......
Principles......
Training provision......
Outcomes......
Roles and responsibilities in relation to single and multi-agency training
Training needs across East Sussex......
Safeguarding competency framework......
Quality assurance process for learning activities......
Implementation of the strategy......
Funding......
Charging......
SAB training pool......
SAB Training Strategy 2015 – 18
V2.0 – May 2017 (date printed: 24 October 2018)
Purpose of the strategy
The purpose of this three year training strategy is to provide a framework for adult safeguarding training and workforce development in East Sussex. The strategy willsupport staff working with adults who have care and support needs to be competent and confident to carry out their responsibilities, and have training opportunities to assist them in appropriately responding to, and preventing, abuse and neglect.
This training strategy is also driven by requirements set out in the Care Act 2014:
- to create shared learning opportunities between agencies,
- to embed the Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) principles into practice, and
- to ensure the new categories of abuse of modern slavery, self-neglect and domestic abuse are appropriately incorporated and addressed in training and development activities.
This strategy sits alongside the national safeguarding competencies for multi-agency use, and the national mental capacity act competency framework, both endorsed by the Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB).All documents aim to drive up standards in practice, and inform training needs.
The strategy has been produced by the Multi-agency Training and Workforce Development subgroup consisting of representatives from Sussex Police, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Adult Social Care, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) and the Clinical Commissioning Groups.
Principles
This training strategy will reflect the following principles:
1. Safeguarding adults is ‘Everybody’s Business’
Training provision will underpin the aim to raise wider public and partner awareness about safeguarding adults, and the role that they can play.
2. Targeting and prioritisation
The strategy will target prioritised needs:
- To meet gaps identified through quality assurance processes and case reviews.
- To ensure lessons from Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs), formerly Serious Case Reviews, are disseminated and recommendations are reflected in the content of training.
- To support agencies in meeting their responsibilities to develop and implement their own workforce development plans in line with the Competency Framework.
- To respond to the needs of staffing groups identified as requiring further awareness and knowledge.
This strategy also reflects the six principles underpinning all safeguarding work, outlined in the Care Act 2014:
- Empowerment– People being supported and encouraged to make their owndecisions, and informed consent.
- Prevention – It is better to take action before harm occurs.
- Proportionality – The least intrusive response appropriate to the risk presented.
- Protection – Support and representation for those in greatest need.
- Partnership – Local solutions through services working with their communities. Communities have a part to play in preventing, detecting and reporting neglectand abuse.
- Accountability – Accountability and transparency in delivering safeguarding.
These principles are reflected in the MSP approach, where adults are at the centre of any safeguarding intervention, with training underpinning expectations that people will be empowered to prevent abuse and manage risks where possible.
Training provision
Training falls into two main groups. Training that is provided by single agencies to their own staff, and multi-agency training where staff from different agencies come together to train. It is the latter that will be co-ordinated under the direction of the SAB. However, the SAB still has a role in quality assurance and monitoring of the single agency delivered training, described later in ‘Roles and responsibilities in relation to single and multi-agency training’.
All training provided by individual agencies needs to be compatible with the Safeguarding Competencies developed for multi-agency use, and be delivered by skilled trainers.
Mandatory safeguarding training provided by individual agencies should be completed by staff every three years, or sooner where changes in legislation, policy or practice dictate.
Agencies can use a variety of options to deliver this training such as e-learning, distance learning and face-to-face learning, and should record the activity undertaken.
To support this activity the SAB Training and Workforce Development Group will:
- Promote Train the Trainer courses covering delivery of safeguarding basic awareness
- Develop and oversee a Multi-agency training programme
- Share training material.
The Multi-agency Training Plan will be developed by the SAB Training and Workforce Development Group. It will reflect the requirements of the Care Act, as set out in the Sussex Safeguarding Adults Policy and Procedures eg. the new categories of abuse and roles of those involved in undertaking safeguarding enquiries. The plan will include training on undertaking enquiries, as well as reflecting learning areas identified through case audits, SARs or other case reviews.
Outcomes
The intended outcomes of this training strategy are to:
- Maintain a consistent, quality-assured approach to safeguarding basic awareness training.
- Specify the required outcomes for training.
- Ensure outcomes of training, including numbers and staff competency, are reported to the East Sussex SAB.
- Ensure that learning activities directly respond to concerns and development needs identified from Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs), or other case reviews, both locally and nationally.
- Embed risk management within all aspects of training.
- Create shared learning opportunities between agencies and promote inter-agency collaboration and information sharing.
- Create more effective and integrated services at both strategic and individual case level.
- Ensure that all learning activities promote and provide safe and secure services to individuals.
Roles and responsibilities in relation to single and multi-agency training
Role of the SAB
The SAB has a role in overseeing and facilitating evaluation of single agency training by way of an annual audit, and reporting on attendance and the content of safeguarding training.
The SAB is also responsible for monitoring and evaluating multi-agency training to ensure this is meeting local needs and priorities as identified in the SAB annual work plan.
Members of the Training and Workforce Development Group will contribute where required to the co-ordination, commissioning, delivery and evaluation of multi-agency training, and the group is accountable to the SAB.
Role of SAB agencies
Individual agencies are responsible for ensuring that their staff are competent in carrying out their responsibilities for safeguarding, and contributing to the prevention of abuse and neglect.
Individual agencies must ensure that their staff are aware of how to raise a safeguarding concern, and be aware of the minimum standards and competencies relevant to their role.
Agencies are expected to support multi-agency training by:
- Providing staff to support the delivery of SAB training where relevant expertise is identified.
- Releasing staff to attend SAB multi-agency training.
- Evaluating the impact of the training through supervision, appraisal and other identified mechanisms, and monitoring staff compliance with practice standards expected for their role.
Training needs across East Sussex
An annual training needs analysis will be completed by the SAB. This will comprise learning identified from:
- the annual audit completed by each SAB member on percentage of workforce trained and which courses have been completed,
- safeguarding audits undertaken by the ASC Safeguarding Development Team, and
- any SARs or case reviews.
Areas of particular focus identified for 2015 – 18 in a multi-agency context include:
- Increasing the number of staff accessing domestic abuse multi-agency training delivered in partnership by the Local Safeguarding Children Board, the Safeguarding Adults Board and the Safer Communities Partnership.
- Mental capacity assessments, deprivation of liberty safeguards, interventions and consideration of coercion and consent have all been highlighted as areas requiring development from safeguarding audits conducted by member agencies of the SAB.
- Self-neglect has been highlighted as requiring development in multi-agency safeguarding audits, and is now included in the Care Act as a new category of abuse. Interventions and multi-agency information sharing and responses have been identified as key areas for development.
- A multi-agency learning opportunity covering undertaking safeguarding enquiries, given the new duties in the Care Act, and the provision for ‘causing enquiries to be made’ is proposed. This will enhance the safeguarding training delivered by single organisations to their own staff.
- Achieving Best Evidence (ABE) interview refresher training for social workers to undertake these interviews with police where required
- Human trafficking and modern slavery, as this is included in the Care Act as a new category of abuse.
- Development of safeguarding awareness training for adults and carers to aid the principle of prevention.
- Resilience building for adults experiencing abuse or neglect.
- Multi-agency Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) Workshops
- Ensuring PREVENT training and awareness is highlighted in appropriate forums across agencies
Safeguarding awareness training for primary care staff is also a target of the strategy, given the low numbers of safeguarding related contacts received from this group.
Safeguarding competency framework
The safeguarding competency framework and mental capacity competencies will be tools used as a framework for training delivery as well as to monitor the effectiveness of the learning achieved.
The competency framework provides a process by which managers can measure competence to ensure the right blend of skills and knowledge are in place, and support professional development. The intercollegiate document is being adopted by health services.
Quality assurance process for learning activities
The quality assurance process will apply to all learning activities delivered under this strategy, and will feed into the wider audit and quality assurance procedures for safeguarding adults.
Training delivered by individual organisations may be subject to a targeted peer review, involving attendance at training sessions and/or reviewing attendee and trainer feedback. This arrangement is on a voluntary basis by both the delivering and observing organisations, and would be undertaken by staff deemed most appropriate to do so, as agreed by the SAB.
Decisions on which organisations and courses are to be reviewed, and who is to review them, will be based upon available safeguarding performance data, discussions at SAB meetings and through annual self-audit processes.
All safeguarding training delivered by individual organisations will be recorded by way of annual reports to the SAB.
The Peer challenge event for Sussex wide SAB member agencies will also provide a mechanism for assurance of training being delivered.
Implementation of the strategy
Each SAB member will be responsible for ensuring that their organisation is aware of the training strategy, and that all training for safeguarding adults is in line with this strategy.
Each SAB member will be responsible for providing training data to the SAB as part of their annual audit.
The Training and Workforce Development Group will oversee and monitor the training and learning opportunities delivered under this strategy.
Funding
A budget for SAB training activities for 2016 – 17 has been agreed and includes contributions from multi-agency partners.
In addition, SAB members contribute towards the delivery of multi-agency training in the following ways:
- Membership of the Training and Workforce Development Group.
- Financial contributions to the SAB.
- Providing venues or other facilities / equipment for training.
- Delivering training sessions.
Charging
All SAB multi-agency training is free at the point of access for SAB member organisations.Charges are made for non-attendance at training.
SAB training pool
The SAB training pool includes practitioners, clinicians and managers who commit time to the delivery of SAB training. These people are identified by way of their particular knowledge and skills, and their agency representation on the SAB.
Workshops will be held for members of the training pool at appropriate intervals to refresh knowledge and ensure a consistent approach is achieved within the training pool.
The SAB training strategy will:
- Reflect the vision and values of the SAB.
- Link closely with training delivered by the LSCB and Safer Communities partnership, including PREVENT awareness and training as co-ordinated by the Safer Communities partnership.
- Identify tools for quality assurance and monitoring effectiveness of training activities.
- Be reviewed annually to reflect the impact of local service redesign, national and local policy, and the audit of the training provided and its impact on practice.
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