Do you know when to report concerns?

Generally speaking, it does no harm to report an incident if you believe there is a genuine chance that a child or vulnerable person's safety or development could be negatively impacted. However, it is not always easy to spot the signs of the many types of abuse, particularly when we only have access to families for the half an hour or less that they are visiting our dental practice. This is why an appropriate level of safeguarding training is necessary, to educate us on the indicators of abuse and to provide us with the correct knowledge for reporting incidents. At the ChildProtectionCompany. com, we pride ourselves on offering high quality safeguarding training for professionals, with our Introduction and Further Adult/Child Protection online training courses offering variants written specifically for those working in the dental sector. Our Introduction to Adult/Child Protection online training course details case studies wherein dental staff are faced with a potential safeguarding concern, and asks how you would react to the same situation.