Training, Learning and Professional Development

Safeguarding Adults Board Training, Learning and Professional Development 

Nottingham City Safeguarding Adults Board are now offering a range of fully-funded webinars and training to professionals from any agency, including the voluntary and community sector.

Our courses focus on specific themes identified in audits, Safeguarding Adults Reviews and SAB Strategic Priorities and are designed to build upon and complement your own agency’s safeguarding training, not replace it.

Before you book or attend any Nottingham City SAB training, you should:

• Complete your own agency or organisation adult safeguarding training.
• Have a basic understanding of the local Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County joint SAB policies and guidance available in the ‘Resources for professionals’ section of this website.
• Read the guidance about any pre-reading and check if the course is relevant to your role before booking.

Accessing and booking SAB training and webinars

The Learning Zone is Nottingham City Councils learning portal. External agencies can sign-up for an account using this short guide:

Learning zone account holders can:

• browse learning opportunities from both the Safeguarding Adults Board and Safeguarding Children’s Partnership.
• book onto courses.
• receive certificates of attendance (once a course evaluation has been completed).

Courses currently available via the Learning Zone:

• Managing Allegations Against People in Positions of Trust (PiPOT) Webinar (45 mins) – 1st June 2026 (online)
• Cuckooing, Slavery and Exploitation Training (half day) – 9th June 2026 (in person)
• Professional Curiosity Webinar (45 mins) – 17th June 2026 (online)
• Learning from Safeguarding Adults Reviews Training (half day) – 7th July 2026 (in person)
• Introduction to the Mental Capacity Act Training (half day) – 21st July 2026 (online)
• Transitional Safeguarding Webinar (45 mins) – 23rd July 2026 (online)
• Self-neglect and Hoarding Training (half day) – 16th September 2026 (in person)
• Cuckooing Webinar (45 mins) – 22nd September 2026 (online)
• Mental Capacity Act Training (half day) – 5th October 2026 (in person)
• Making Safeguarding Personal Webinar (45 mins) – 14th October 2026 (online)
• Cuckooing, Slavery and Exploitation Training (half day) – 9th November 2026 (in person)
• Learning from Safeguarding Adults Reviews Training (half day) – 19th November 2026 (in person)
• Cuckooing Webinar (45 mins) – 24th November 2026 (online)
• Prevention and Early Intervention Webinar (45 mins) – 7th December 2026 (online)
• Safeguarding and AI Webinar (45 mins) – 15th December 2026 (online)
• Self-neglect and Hoarding Training (half day) – 11th January 2027 (in person)
• Transitional Safeguarding Training (half day) – 21st January 2027 (online)
• Cuckooing Webinar (45 mins) – 3rd February 2027 (online)
• Managing Allegations Against People in Positions of Trust (PiPOT) Training (half day) – 24th February 2027 (in person)
• Professional Curiosity Webinar (45 mins) – 18th March 2027 (online)
• Prevention and Early Intervention Webinar (45 mins) – 23rd March 2027 (online)

Safeguarding Training Quality Assurance 

This checklist can be used to assure yourselves that your introductory level safeguarding adult training is up-to-date and meets minimum requirements. 

• It can also be used as a means to assure yourselves of the suitability of any training you may buy in. 

• Will be kept under review by the Training, Learning and Improvement Subgroup in consultation with NSAB. 

You can view the Safeguarding Annual Review Checklist by clicking the link below and downloading the file. 

Please note: When you have used this checklist, this does not enable you to include the NCSAB / NSAB logos on your training materials, However, you may use the following statement: Our training materials include all the recommended content included within the ‘Training Content Checklist’ provided annually by the NCSAB/NSAB. 

Alcohol Identification and Brief Advice (IBA) Training

Nottingham Recovery Network offer free, interactive training session to help increase your knowledge and confidence in offering support and advice to others.

This in-person 3-hour session is full of hands-on learning, interactive activities, and practical insights.

During the session, you’ll explore:

• The risks and dangers of alcohol use

• What alcohol units are and how to calculate them
• How to use the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and have supportive conversations about the results
• How to provide safe harm reduction advice and signpost people to specialist services

But this training isn’t all theory. You’ll get to:

• Step into someone else’s shoes with beer goggles and experience the effects of alcohol

• Join in with interactive challenges testing your knowledge of standard drink serving sizes
• Practice giving advice with confidence
• Take part in quizzes and friendly competitions

By the end of the training, you’ll walk away with practical skills, a solid understanding of alcohol-related risks, and confidence in supporting others—all while having a fun, engaging experience that sticks with you.

In 2026, Nottingham City SAB published a Executive Summary and Learning Briefing for a Safeguarding Adults Review for ‘Lisa’. The review highlighted the importance of robust alcohol screening processes to ensure that alcohol-related risk is routinely and consistently identified at the earliest point. Without such screening it is not possible to build an appropriate individual response and it will be harder to build a case for a general improvement in the approach to alcohol use disorders. The SAB therefore encourage professionals in all agencies to attend this training.

Safeguarding Adults – An Introduction

Find out more on safeguarding, making a referral, recognising types of abuse and more by clicking below:

Domestic and Sexual Violence and Abuse Training

Equation offer a wide range of free expert training to equip you with everything you need to respond to domestic abuse and sexual violence. Whatever your role, Equation can help you develop your professional skills, spot the signs, take the right action, and support those affected.

Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service (NCVS) Safeguarding Training

NCVS have a regular programme of training and development events to support groups and organisations in their day-to-day running.

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Trauma Informed Partnership

The Trauma Informed Partnership have developed a live document that indicates training resources and opportunities both locally and nationally.

It highlights available training for all staff, links to training for frontline staff and trauma specialist practice for those who deliver specialist interventions.

It shares learning for those in managerial/commissioning roles and for those in senior/strategic roles to ensure a trauma informed approach is known by all and translated into all levels of an organisation.

You can find out more about the Trauma Informed Partnership here: Trauma informed Partnership

Institutional Discharge – Learning from Safeguarding Adults Reviews

This free webinar brought together the learning from research into a range of local, regional and national Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs) relating to Institutional Discharge. This webinar focussed mainly on sharing areas of good practice and tips for front line practitioners and used the SARs as case examples to demonstrate the negative impact of poor, uncoordinated discharge but also the positive impact when things are done well. It is hoped that the learning from these case examples will provide you with some insights that you can bring into your own practice and share with your teams.

This webinar was delivered by Nottingham City SAB through the Nottingham Practice Development Unit.

CHARLIE-P Training

Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service offer a multi-agency e-learning course to help individuals understand the characteristics and risk factors that are common to those individuals at risk of fire. The course will also give staff the knowledge to competently complete the CHARLIE P Matrix using a person-centered approach.

Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue are currently also hosting in-person training sessions at Highfields Fire Station and Mansfield Fire Station, for professionals who refer vulnerable individuals for a Safe and Well Visit. You can book onto a session on Ticket Tailor. If none of these events suit, please fill in their training request form.

Transitional Safeguarding

Nottingham City SAB and Nottinghamshire County SAB have developed a short series of slides on Transitional Safeguarding which can be added into your own agency internal adult safeguarding training. These slides contain a blank template slide at the end where you can add your safeguarding lead details, together with any links to internal policies, procedures and guidance for your staff. These slide are accompanied by a briefing note.

Safeguarding Adults by SCIE

The Social Care Institute for Excellence has developed a CPD accredited e-learning course that includes dramatised video scenarios, shows how safeguarding issues can develop, and suggests ways to deal with them.

Please note this is not free of charge.

Mental Capacity Act

This CPD-accredited online course explores the Mental Capacity Act 2005, including best interests decision-making and how to support people to make their own decisions.

Please note this is not free of charge.