Safeguarding – is it time for your check up?

The aim of this article is to reinforce how important it is that everyone in the dental practice knows what to do with regards to safeguarding their patients, their colleagues and themselves.

Through four simple exercises you can test yourself on your current safeguarding knowledge (and that of your colleagues if you tackle the exercises as a team).

Objectives:

Introduction

With dental teams having contact with millions of children and adults at risk each year, it is not surprising that they are seen as being ideally placed to recognise the signs of abuse and neglect and to take appropriate steps to report concerns. Indeed, in the current pandemic dental staff maybe one of the few professionals with safeguarding training a child or adult at risk comes into contact with.