Section outline

  • Nine units | Approximately one hundred minutes | Followed by the Module 2 quiz

    What this module is about

    This module gives you the shared vocabulary of safeguarding and the scope of what it covers. It is deliberately jurisdiction-neutral: it teaches the concepts and notes where statutory definitions vary, rather than adopting one country's law as though it were universal. Module 6 handles the law.

    Vocabulary matters more here than it might appear. A great many safeguarding failures begin with a category error — a situation that was real but was filed under the wrong heading, and therefore went to the wrong place, or to nowhere.

    By the end of this module, you will be able to:

    • Say who safeguarding protects, and why adults at risk are defined by circumstance rather than category.
    • Define a child for safeguarding purposes and defend that definition against the two things that erode it.
    • Explain capacity as decision-specific, time-specific, presumed, and not the whole question.
    • Name the recognised categories of harm and route a concern without having to classify it first.
    • Recognise neglect, financial abuse, and exploitation, none of which looks like an event.
    • Identify coercive control, and explain why joint sessions are dangerous rather than merely unhelpful.
    • Define spiritual abuse precisely, and distinguish it from teaching that is simply unwelcome.
    • Explain why apparent consent does not settle whether a minister acted rightly.

    Sources

    Source tables identify the material that supports the teaching. Where a table uses the key, ✓ means that teaching drawn from the source forms part of the assessed content; ✕ identifies optional further reading, which is not assessed directly. You are not required to read every linked external resource in full.

    Assessment

    Twenty questions drawn at random from a bank of sixty, twenty-five minutes, eighty per cent to pass, two attempts, highest grade. It covers this module only.

    Before you move on

    • All nine units marked as done.
    • Your local specialist domestic abuse service written into the companion workbook.
    • The Module 2 quiz passed.
    • Unit 2.1 — Who safeguarding protects Page
    • Unit 2.2 — Children and young people Page
    • Unit 2.3 — Adults at risk: why the label describes circumstance, not category Page
    • Unit 2.4 — The categories of harm: an overview Page
    • Unit 2.5 — Physical, sexual, emotional, and psychological abuse Page
    • Unit 2.6 — Neglect, financial abuse, and exploitation Page
    • Unit 2.7 — Domestic abuse and coercive control Page
    • Unit 2.8 — Spiritual abuse and the misuse of religious authority Page
    • Unit 2.9 — Power and consent in ministry Page
    • Module 2 Quiz — Scope, definitions, power and consent