Child Protection and Adult Safeguarding Bucks New University

Overview

Many safeguarding practitioners, regardless of their field, are often appointed safeguarding responsibilities but unfortunately are unable to find the knowledge or resources they need to carry them out correctly. This Child Protection and Adult Safeguarding course is aimed at filling that gap in your knowledge, offering the opportunity to develop confidence, an ethical practice and enhance your leadership. We do this by sharing that specific and experience based knowledge of good practice, ethics, research, reflection, planning, and understanding. 

Safeguarding means protecting our health, wellbeing and human rights; enabling us to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. It is an important part of providing high-quality health care. Safeguarding children, young people and adults is a responsibility shared by us all, but particularly prevalent for those who work with children and adults. We take great care to ensure you leave  Bucks New University with confidence and a complete understanding of your responsibilities in regard to safeguarding vulnerable children and adults. 

Why study at Buckinghamshire New University?

At BNU our course has such an interesting variety of backgrounds to learn from. Your course mates will typically be from both the UK and around the world, including NHS staff with a range of specialities such as midwifery, mental health professionals, additional needs and disabilities, including learning needs; social workers; armed forces, faith leaders and from educational backgrounds (including Special Educational Needs). 

Our course is unique in the way it explores contemporary safeguarding for both children and adults. We look at ways safeguarding can be deployed in a variety of roles and consider different responsibilities and practice. This course offers an educational experience that can be applied to your practice environment as you go through it, as well as influence policy within organisations. So, if you’re a professional who holds safeguarding responsibilities as part of your role, this course is ideal for you.

What are my career prospects?

• If you want to develop a career in safeguarding practice, this course will prepare you for job roles such as policy developer, researcher, team leader, programme manager or unit manager in the NHS, local government and charities.
• Previous students have seen their careers soar on completion of the programme, as they are then considered ‘experts’ or ‘specialists’ with a broad range of knowledge to build on and have usually demonstrated this through their dissertation research or project.
• For those not yet in a safeguarding role, the course offers the opportunity to change direction to the safeguarding career pathway in a range of settings, both nationally and internationally.