Course detail
Risk Management and Positive Risk-Taking
This management-awareness course develops the knowledge and judgement needed to balance safety, choice and independence in adult social care. It explains lawful assessment, positive risk-taking, the Mental Capacity Act, safeguarding thresholds, operational controls, escalation, governance and learning from incidents. Practical examples are drawn from care homes, domiciliary care and supported living in England.
Topics
27
Duration
1.6h
Quiz pass mark
100%
Course structure
Learning path
Topics are completed in order before the final assessment unlocks.
Course description
1. Understanding risk in adult social care
2. Positive risk-taking and the dignity of risk
3. Law, guidance and organisational rules
4. CQC Regulation 12: safe care and treatment
5. CQC Regulation 17: governance and oversight
6. Person-centred assessment and co-production
7. Mental Capacity Act: five principles
8. Best interests, restraint and deprivation of liberty
9. Identifying hazards, severity and likelihood
10. Selecting proportionate controls
11. Recording a defensible individual risk plan
12. Consent, refusal and informed choice
13. Safeguarding, self-neglect and duty to act
14. Falls, mobility and everyday independence
15. Medicines, clinical risks and competence boundaries
16. Infection prevention and shared risks
17. Risk in care homes
18. Risk in domiciliary care
19. Risk in supported living
20. Workforce risk, delegation and staffing
21. Dynamic risk assessment and changing needs
22. Escalation, emergencies and incident response
23. Learning from incidents and near misses
24. Auditing risk management and provider assurance
25. Manager scenarios: difficult balances
26. Course summary and manager action plan
Final quiz
Final step20 questions and 100% required to pass and receive the certificate.
