Safeguarding for Managers and Safeguarding Leads

What does this course entail?

This one and a half day course is designed to give managers and Safeguarding Leads the skills, understanding and confidence to undertake their role to ensure the wellbeing of others, including the prevention of abuse and neglect.

Attendance on this course assumes that Managers and Safeguarding Leads have a working knowledge of Safeguarding for Adults and Children due to their role. If you need a refresher please attend one of our Safeguarding refresher sessions.

Who would benefit from this course?

Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and having an understanding of the issues and processes is essential for anyone, regardless of role or status as paid employee or volunteer. However, there are also both legislative and specific role responsibilities for trustees and managers around:

• Leadership and accountability

• The organisation and its beneficiaries

• People and risk

No formal qualifications are necessary but a reasonable standard of English will be expected.

What does the course cover?

The importance of safeguarding - children & adults revision

Enabling trustees and managers to understand how to:

• Act in the best interest of children & adults
• Take all reasonable steps to prevent any harm
• Assess and manage risk
• Put safeguarding policies and procedures in place
• Ensure Safer Recruitment processes are adequate
• Undertake ongoing monitoring and reviewing
• Respond appropriately to allegations of abuse

For any further information, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 01872 266987.

Date: 9th July 2026

Venue: Truro

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Training Booking & Enrolment Form - https://forms.office.com/r/7FqZmzgFxw

Terms and Conditions

You can read our Terms and Conditions for Volunteer Cornwall's training here: Training Terms and Conditions 2021.