Course title: Level 5 Safeguarding Children & Adult — Strategic Oversight and System Response ( 2 days )
Based on 2025 Intercollegiate document competency expectations for strategic oversight and system response.
Intended participants
- Senior strategic leads / designated doctors and nurses / associate/deputy directors / heads / lead clinicians (level 5 roles) across UK nations.
Aims
- Refresh/confirm level‑5 strategic competencies: leadership, system governance, assurance, service planning, data and escalation.
- Equip senior leaders with advanced knowledge of statutory safeguarding frameworks, policy obligations, and inter-agency responsibilities for both children and adults.
- Explore trauma informed approaches/ practice and understanding the impact of adverse childhood experiences and how this should be embedded in organisational practice.
- Develop strategic risk assessment and assurance skills to identify, prevent, and respond to complex safeguarding concerns across organisational systems.
- Strengthen governance, accountability and quality assurance mechanisms to embed a safeguarding culture and drive continuous improvement.
- Explore the capability needed to lead multi-agency partnership working, information sharing and escalation processes to achieve timely, proportionate protection outcomes.
-Enable strategic planning for workforce development, resource allocation and trauma-informed practice to support safe, person-centred care and promote long-term safeguarding resilience.
Accredited by:CPD
Core competencies
