Mandatory and statutory training for adult social care

Mandatory and Statutory Adult Social Care Training Course Content

This comprehensive bundle includes 29 online training courses covering core, role-specific and recommended areas of learning for adult social care workers. Each course focuses on practical knowledge that can be applied within care homes, domiciliary care, supported living and other adult social care settings.

1. Health & Safety Awareness
Covers essential workplace health and safety responsibilities, common hazards, risk assessments, accident prevention and maintaining a safe environment for staff and people receiving care.

2. Fire Safety – Level 1
Introduces the principles of fire safety, common causes of fire, fire prevention, recognising hazards and the actions staff should take if a fire occurs.

3. Fire Safety – Level 2
Develops fire safety knowledge further, including fire procedures, evacuation, fire safety equipment and responsibilities for maintaining a safer care environment.

4. Manual Handling at Work
Explains safer manual handling principles, including identifying handling risks, reducing the likelihood of injury and using appropriate techniques when moving or handling objects.

5. Infection Prevention & Control – Level 1
Introduces infection prevention principles, routes of transmission, hand hygiene, personal protective equipment and measures used to reduce the spread of infection.

6. Infection Prevention & Control – Level 2
Provides a more detailed understanding of infection prevention and control practices relevant to staff delivering direct care and support.

7. Safeguarding Adults – Level 1
Introduces adult safeguarding, different forms of abuse and neglect, recognising potential indicators and knowing how and when to report concerns.

8. Safeguarding Adults – Level 2
Develops safeguarding knowledge for workers with greater responsibilities, including responding to concerns, reporting and recording, legislation, risk and appropriate escalation.

9. Learning Disability & Autism Awareness
Builds awareness of learning disabilities and autism and explores how care workers can provide respectful, inclusive and person-centred support.

Role-Specific Mandatory Training

10. Basic Life Support
Covers the essential principles of basic life support, responding to an emergency, CPR and appropriate action when someone becomes unresponsive.

11. First Aid
Introduces essential first aid knowledge, including responding appropriately to accidents, injuries and sudden illness until further medical assistance is available.

12. Moving & Handling People
Explains safer principles for assisting and moving people, including risk assessment, reducing injury and supporting an individual’s safety, dignity and independence.

13. Safeguarding Children – Level 1
Provides an introduction to child safeguarding, recognising possible signs of abuse or neglect and understanding responsibilities for reporting concerns.

14. Safeguarding Children – Level 2
Develops knowledge of child safeguarding procedures, responding to concerns, information sharing, reporting and professional responsibilities.

15. Food Safety & Hygiene – Level 1
Introduces basic food hygiene, contamination, personal hygiene and safer practices when handling, preparing or serving food.

16. Food Safety & Hygiene – Level 2
Provides more detailed knowledge of food safety hazards, contamination controls, food storage, preparation and maintaining appropriate hygiene standards.

17. Medication Awareness & Administration
Covers key principles of medication safety, including responsibilities, safe administration, storage, recording, common medication issues and responding to errors or concerns.

Additional & Recommended Training

18. Mental Capacity Act
Explains the principles of the Mental Capacity Act, assessing capacity, supporting decision-making and acting in a person’s best interests where appropriate.

19. Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Explores equality, diversity, inclusion, discrimination and human rights, helping workers provide fair, respectful and inclusive care and support.

20. GDPR & Data Protection
Covers confidentiality, personal information, secure handling of data and the responsibilities care workers have when accessing, recording, storing or sharing information.

21. Dementia Awareness
Provides an understanding of dementia, its potential effects on individuals and approaches to delivering compassionate, person-centred dementia care.

22. Nutrition & Hydration
Explores the importance of appropriate nutrition and hydration, recognising potential risks and supporting individuals to meet their dietary and fluid needs.

23. Person-Centred Care
Explains how to place an individual’s needs, preferences, choices and desired outcomes at the centre of their care and support.

24. Privacy & Dignity
Covers practical ways of protecting privacy, maintaining dignity, respecting individual choices and promoting independence during everyday care.

25. Communication
Develops effective communication skills for adult social care, including listening, adapting communication and overcoming potential communication barriers.

26. End of Life Care
Introduces the principles of compassionate end of life and palliative care, including person-centred support, communication, dignity and responding to individual wishes and needs.

27. Oral Health
Explains the importance of good oral health and how care workers can support individuals with daily oral care and recognise when additional support may be required.

28. Positive Behaviour Support
Introduces positive behaviour support and person-centred approaches to understanding behaviour, identifying potential triggers and improving quality of life.

29. Care Planning
Explores effective care planning and record keeping, including identifying individual needs and preferences, setting appropriate outcomes and keeping care information accurate and up to date.

Together, these 29 courses provide broad coverage of the knowledge adult social care workers may require for induction, refresher training and ongoing professional development. The precise training required for an individual should be determined by their employer according to their role, responsibilities, workplace risks and the needs of the people they support.

That final qualification is important for accuracy: not every one of the 29 courses is automatically legally mandatory for every adult social care worker; requirements depend on role and risk assessment. Your existing Caredemy material similarly distinguishes core training from training relevant to particular roles.