Care Certificate, Standard 11 of 15
Safeguarding children
Why adult services staff carry child safeguarding duties, the four categories of child abuse and the signs of each, what to do about a concern including when the family is not your client, and how child and adult safeguarding interact in households you visit.
Why this standard matters in practice
A domiciliary worker sees inside homes that no teacher or GP ever sees. Adult services staff regularly meet children as visitors, young carers and family members, and the duty to act on a concern does not check your job title.
How it is assessed
The knowledge in this standard is assessed by a knowledge check, which you can take here as part of the Care Certificate course. Attempts are unlimited and marking happens on our servers, so the answers are never sent to the browser.
Your employer's assessor must also observe you applying it in practice before this standard is complete. That is how the Care Certificate is designed, and it is the reason a purely online Care Certificate does not exist however it is advertised.
Questions about Standard 11
Why do I need child safeguarding training when I work with adults?
Because you meet children anyway: a young carer in the house you visit, grandchildren at the home, a client's own children. If you notice signs of abuse or neglect you have a duty to report it through your safeguarding lead, and the standard teaches you what those signs are and what happens next.