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This Safeguarding course expired on 5 December 2025. If you have completed this course, you can print your certificate here. 
This course has been replaced with our new updated Safeguarding Adults for Optometrists Level 2 course, issued in December 2025.



Domains: Leadership & Accountability, Professionalism 

CPD Ref: C-110971

CPD Points: 

CPD Type: Non-interactive

Closing Date: 5 December 2025 


Docet is currently working on an update to its Safeguarding courses, which are scheduled to launch later this year. In the meantime, we have reviewed the safeguarding adults’ course and created a new CPD quiz for 2025. The course is accredited at Level 2 and includes case studies relevant to optometric practice. This online resource informs you of the issues surrounding abuse in adults at risk and how to recognise and deal with issues that might arise in practice. It outlines the regulatory and ethical issues and explains how to report concerns about adults at risk you might see in the consulting room.

Each level 2 safeguarding e-learning module will take up to two hours to complete, depending on your individual learning speed, but you do not have to complete a module all at once – you can do it section-by-section, taking the learning at your own pace.

Please note the Optical Confederation’s guidance recommends all practitioners undertake Safeguarding training at level 2 regularly and many organisations such as the NHS also have this as a requirement. Therefore, this training is longer than other Docet programmes to achieve this national standard, but under GOC guidelines can only be awarded one CPD point.

Once you have completed and passed the non-interactive CPD quiz, you can print your certificate.

First published: April 2017
Last reviewed: January 2025

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    Professionalism

    s.11 Protect and safeguard patients, colleagues, and others from harm 

    • Knowledge of the legal requirements of optometrists to safeguard and protect adults at risk from abuse and the policies and procedures that should be in place in a practice.

    s.10 Work collaboratively with colleagues in the interest of patients

    • Able to recognise a disclosure of abuse and understand the need for co-operation and the sharing of information between agencies that provide support to an adult at risk.

    Leadership and Accountability 

    s.8 Maintain adequate patient records

    • Understand what must be recorded in any case of a disclosure where there are any suspicions of abuse of an adult at risk.

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