- Introductions and overview of the certificate
- Safeguarding in your own role and setting
- Programme structure and self-directed learning
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Certificate in Safeguarding & Protection of Children, Older People & Vulnerable Adults
An intensive one-day, live-online programme developing practical competence in recognising, responding to and reporting safeguarding concerns across the lifespan.
Professional Certificate
Certificate in Safeguarding & Protection of Children, Older People & Vulnerable Adults
An intensive one-day, live-online programme developing practical competence in recognising, responding to and reporting safeguarding concerns across the lifespan.
At a Glance
Course Details
€195Workshop Fee
6 hrsLive Zoom
9 hrsSelf-Directed Learning
15CPD Credits
Overview
Workshop Overview
The programme combines lecturer input, reflective discussion, practical exercises and structured self-directed learning. It is designed to support safe, ethical and professionally bounded application rather than replace full specialist training or statutory responsibilities.
Learners examine safeguarding across childhood, older age and vulnerable-adult contexts, with attention to prevention, protection, welfare, risk, disclosure, reporting, documentation and professional accountability.
Professional Learning
Course Highlights
- Recognising indicators of abuse, neglect, exploitation and coercive control
- Responding safely and appropriately to disclosures
- Understanding thresholds of concern and reporting pathways
- Applying confidentiality, consent and information-sharing principles
- Maintaining factual and contemporaneous documentation
- Using supervision, consultation and reflective practice
Programme Structure
Workshop Day Outline
- Prevention, protection and promotion of welfare
- Definitions: child, older person and vulnerable adult
- Types and patterns of abuse and neglect
- Duty of care, dignity, autonomy and least restrictive intervention
- Risk and protective factors
- Common indicators and warning signs
- Grooming, coercive control and exploitation
- Barriers to disclosure and professional curiosity
- Legal and policy frameworks
- Thresholds of concern
- Capacity, consent and information-sharing
- Confidentiality versus duty to protect
- First response to disclosures
- Immediate risk management
- Internal and external reporting pathways
- Factual and contemporaneous record-keeping
- Professional boundaries
- Vicarious trauma, moral distress and burnout
- Supervision, consultation and peer support
- Reflective practice frameworks
- Review of learning
- Directed reading and reflective journal
- Knowledge check
- Personal action planning and questions
Assessment Breakdown
Assessment & Course Completion
Your overall course mark is calculated from four assessment components, totalling 100%.
- Class Attendance — 10%: A minimum of 80% attendance at live online classes is required. Attendance is recorded automatically through Zoom and reconciled by the Registry.
- Skills Assessment — 30% (Mandatory): A demonstrated skills assessment is observed by the lecturer. A minimum passing grade of 80% in the skills assessment is required to receive the course award. Learners who do not achieve 80% at their first attempt will be offered a resubmission opportunity.
- Moodle Activity & Lecture Viewing — 20% (Mandatory): Engagement is evidenced through Moodle activity logs, including lecture recordings viewed in full, resources accessed, module tasks completed and consistent weekly participation. Passive enrolment without activity will not meet this requirement.
- Case Studies — Modules 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 — 40%: Six case-study submissions are completed across Modules 5–10, applying course concepts to practice. The six submissions collectively account for 40% of the overall course mark and are assessed against the published marking rubric on Moodle. This is the largest single component of the final grade.
Total Percentage Achievable: 100%. The minimum attendance requirement and mandatory skills and Moodle engagement requirements must also be met.
Regular attendance, sustained Moodle engagement and timely assessment submissions support successful progression through the course. If you fall behind or have any concerns about your progress, contact the Registry early for support.
Good to Know
Professional Requirements & Support
Professional Boundaries & Support
Participants should apply the material within their existing role, competence and organisational procedures. Where specialist clinical, safeguarding, medical, statutory or supervisory intervention is required, appropriate referral or consultation should be sought.
Safeguarding Practice Within Professional Scope
This certificate supports continuing professional development and informed safeguarding awareness. It does not replace statutory training, organisational procedures, specialist assessment or the legal responsibilities attached to a participant’s professional role.
Students should engage from a private environment, maintain confidentiality during discussion and contact the Registry Office if clarification is required about suitability, assessment, accreditation or professional scope.
Live Delivery
Zoom Delivery
All live online classes are delivered via ICPS College's secure enterprise Zoom platform, providing a stable, professional and confidential environment for lecturer-led teaching, discussion and skills practice. Students are expected to engage fully with live sessions, including breakout room discussions and applied skills practice, to gain the maximum benefit from the programme.
Given the personal and reflective nature of some of the material covered in this course, students are encouraged to attend live sessions from a private, confidential space and to take breaks or seek support where needed. Students experiencing technical difficulties should contact the College promptly so that alternative arrangements can be made where possible.
Learning Platform
Moodle LMS
Students are provided with access to the College's Moodle Learning Management System, where lecture notes, reading materials, module resources and assessment guidance are made available throughout the course. The Moodle LMS supports independent study and allows students to revisit key concepts, review recorded material where applicable, and prepare thoroughly for assessment.
Students are expected to engage regularly with the Moodle LMS as part of their self-directed learning hours. The platform is updated throughout the course to reflect the content covered in live sessions and to support consistent, structured academic progression.
Professional Accreditation & Important Information
Professional pathway and membership options may be available through the Irish Counselling, Psychotherapy & Allied Healthcare Professionals Association (ICPHAA) and recognised continuing-professional-development structures, subject to the current criteria of the relevant body. Students should confirm any specific pathway requirements with the lecturer, course leader or Registry Office.
By enrolling, students agree to comply with ICPS College policies, procedures and codes of conduct. Official course/cohort WhatsApp groups are College-moderated. Unofficial or unmoderated course/cohort groups should not be created for College-related communication without prior College knowledge and consent. These arrangements support student welfare, confidentiality, professional boundaries and protection from bullying, harassment, intimidation, exclusion and reputational harm.
Professional Certificate
Certificate in Safeguarding & Protection of Children, Older People & Vulnerable Adults
An intensive one-day, live-online programme developing practical competence in recognising, responding to and reporting safeguarding concerns across the lifespan.
At a Glance
Course Details
€195Workshop Fee
6 hrsLive Zoom
9 hrsSelf-Directed Learning
15CPD Credits
Overview
Workshop Overview
The programme combines lecturer input, reflective discussion, practical exercises and structured self-directed learning. It is designed to support safe, ethical and professionally bounded application rather than replace full specialist training or statutory responsibilities.
Learners examine safeguarding across childhood, older age and vulnerable-adult contexts, with attention to prevention, protection, welfare, risk, disclosure, reporting, documentation and professional accountability.
Professional Learning
Course Highlights
- Recognising indicators of abuse, neglect, exploitation and coercive control
- Responding safely and appropriately to disclosures
- Understanding thresholds of concern and reporting pathways
- Applying confidentiality, consent and information-sharing principles
- Maintaining factual and contemporaneous documentation
- Using supervision, consultation and reflective practice
Programme Structure
Workshop Day Outline
- Introductions and overview of the certificate
- Safeguarding in your own role and setting
- Programme structure and self-directed learning
- Prevention, protection and promotion of welfare
- Definitions: child, older person and vulnerable adult
- Types and patterns of abuse and neglect
- Duty of care, dignity, autonomy and least restrictive intervention
- Risk and protective factors
- Common indicators and warning signs
- Grooming, coercive control and exploitation
- Barriers to disclosure and professional curiosity
- Legal and policy frameworks
- Thresholds of concern
- Capacity, consent and information-sharing
- Confidentiality versus duty to protect
- First response to disclosures
- Immediate risk management
- Internal and external reporting pathways
- Factual and contemporaneous record-keeping
- Professional boundaries
- Vicarious trauma, moral distress and burnout
- Supervision, consultation and peer support
- Reflective practice frameworks
- Review of learning
- Directed reading and reflective journal
- Knowledge check
- Personal action planning and questions
Assessment Breakdown
Assessment & Course Completion
Your overall course mark is calculated from four assessment components, totalling 100%.
- Class Attendance — 10%: A minimum of 80% attendance at live online classes is required. Attendance is recorded automatically through Zoom and reconciled by the Registry.
- Skills Assessment — 30% (Mandatory): A demonstrated skills assessment is observed by the lecturer. A minimum passing grade of 80% in the skills assessment is required to receive the course award. Learners who do not achieve 80% at their first attempt will be offered a resubmission opportunity.
- Moodle Activity & Lecture Viewing — 20% (Mandatory): Engagement is evidenced through Moodle activity logs, including lecture recordings viewed in full, resources accessed, module tasks completed and consistent weekly participation. Passive enrolment without activity will not meet this requirement.
- Case Studies — Modules 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 — 40%: Six case-study submissions are completed across Modules 5–10, applying course concepts to practice. The six submissions collectively account for 40% of the overall course mark and are assessed against the published marking rubric on Moodle. This is the largest single component of the final grade.
Total Percentage Achievable: 100%. The minimum attendance requirement and mandatory skills and Moodle engagement requirements must also be met.
Regular attendance, sustained Moodle engagement and timely assessment submissions support successful progression through the course. If you fall behind or have any concerns about your progress, contact the Registry early for support.
Good to Know
Professional Requirements & Support
Professional Boundaries & Support
Participants should apply the material within their existing role, competence and organisational procedures. Where specialist clinical, safeguarding, medical, statutory or supervisory intervention is required, appropriate referral or consultation should be sought.
Safeguarding Practice Within Professional Scope
This certificate supports continuing professional development and informed safeguarding awareness. It does not replace statutory training, organisational procedures, specialist assessment or the legal responsibilities attached to a participant’s professional role.
Students should engage from a private environment, maintain confidentiality during discussion and contact the Registry Office if clarification is required about suitability, assessment, accreditation or professional scope.
Live Delivery
Zoom Delivery
All live online classes are delivered via ICPS College's secure enterprise Zoom platform, providing a stable, professional and confidential environment for lecturer-led teaching, discussion and skills practice. Students are expected to engage fully with live sessions, including breakout room discussions and applied skills practice, to gain the maximum benefit from the programme.
Given the personal and reflective nature of some of the material covered in this course, students are encouraged to attend live sessions from a private, confidential space and to take breaks or seek support where needed. Students experiencing technical difficulties should contact the College promptly so that alternative arrangements can be made where possible.
Learning Platform
Moodle LMS
Students are provided with access to the College's Moodle Learning Management System, where lecture notes, reading materials, module resources and assessment guidance are made available throughout the course. The Moodle LMS supports independent study and allows students to revisit key concepts, review recorded material where applicable, and prepare thoroughly for assessment.
Students are expected to engage regularly with the Moodle LMS as part of their self-directed learning hours. The platform is updated throughout the course to reflect the content covered in live sessions and to support consistent, structured academic progression.
Professional Accreditation & Important Information
Professional pathway and membership options may be available through the Irish Counselling, Psychotherapy & Allied Healthcare Professionals Association (ICPHAA) and recognised continuing-professional-development structures, subject to the current criteria of the relevant body. Students should confirm any specific pathway requirements with the lecturer, course leader or Registry Office.
By enrolling, students agree to comply with ICPS College policies, procedures and codes of conduct. Official course/cohort WhatsApp groups are College-moderated. Unofficial or unmoderated course/cohort groups should not be created for College-related communication without prior College knowledge and consent. These arrangements support student welfare, confidentiality, professional boundaries and protection from bullying, harassment, intimidation, exclusion and reputational harm.
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