Course content

• What is adult safeguarding?
• What makes an adult at risk?
• The Care Act 2014
• Recognising the signs and indicators of abuse
• The legal framework and guidance
• Partnership working in protecting adults at risk
• Your responsibilities if you have concerns
• How to report concerns
• The process following referral.

Learning will be supported by case scenarios, small group working and discussion.

Who should attend?

• All frontline housing staff and their line managers
• Sheltered/extra care sheltered housing staff
• Estate managers/officers
• Anti-social behaviour teams
• Resident and mobile wardens
• Staff dealing with homelessness and vulnerable adult clients.

Tahira (Tara) Hussain Tedx Speaker

MA MSc CBP PG Dip CBT PG Cert APIMH BA (Hons) MBPsS

Tara has extensive experience working in the statutory and voluntary sector. She has a 29-year career in mental health, community development, charity and the housing sector. She has a successful track record in consultancy, training and project management. Tara is qualified as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist and she is a member of the BABCP and BPS.

Working as a training associate for national agencies she has utilised her experience in the housing, health and care sector and delivered a menu of training packages aimed to support staff, stakeholders and residents on a range of topics including mental health and wellbeing, safeguarding children & adults, equality, diversity, inclusion, professional boundaries & effective psychological intervention.