“Dawn has been delivering Self Neglect and S.42 Enquiries courses for the Doncaster Safeguarding Adults Board for the past 2 years. Delegates have always responded very positively to the courses she has delivered commenting on her wealth of knowledge, experience and interactive delivery style. Dawn delivers these courses in-depth and really expands on the learning delegates need to take away. She keeps everyone involved throughout and makes it very enjoyable.”
Comments we have received have been:
- Thoroughly enjoyed the course and learnt so much
- Dawn has managed to deliver a difficult course – she made it very easy to understand.
Shabnum Amin
Safeguarding Adults Learning and Development Manager
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
“Dawn delivered a fantastic Children and Adults safeguarding training for all the Trustees and Senior Managers of Scarborough and Ryedale Carers Resource. She provided a bespoke full day’s session for us all around our responsibilities as leaders and what our roles were in supporting staff. What an excellent day, I can honestly say it was the best and easiest safeguarding training I have experienced. Dawn was really approachable and provide the training in a way that suited us all, she even changed some of the session on the day to fit round our different asks (no easy feat!). Dawn has a wealth of experience and her knowledge and shared stories really brought the subject alive, so much so we then booked for her to deliver a days session for the whole team. The teams session was very practical and relevant to both support workers and admin, she even gave tips around boundaries and note taking. Dawn is now going to deliver some one hour sessions for new staff and for some wanting refresher training. As the CEO of SRCR to find someone who delivers safeguarding that is totally relevant to the services we offer and can be bespoke, flexible, and very interesting so it holds your full attention for the day is well worth investing in. Thank you Dawn look forward to working with you in the future.”
Elizabeth McPherson
Chief Officer
Scarborough & Ryedale Carers Resource
” Dawn has delivered Safeguarding Adults Training for us over a number of years and each session continues to be lively, engaging, practical and varied. Dawn always ensures her training is relevant by finding out the current needs of our learner group so she can tailor content to include the essential elements required, as well as to explore areas relevant to our particular field of work. Dawn is flexible, fun, very knowledgeable and extremely experienced. Without hesitation I would encourage others to use Dawn Shearwood training. “
Rachel James
Clinical Training Lead/Occupational Therapist
” Dawn Shearwood was excellent, combining practitioner’s knowledge and trainer skills. Dawn helped us understand how adult safeguarding duties applied to us, as a University. We have a complex range of settings and scenarios in which an understanding of safeguarding and the competence to undertake appropriate decision-making and safeguarding responses are essential.
Through her training, Dawn provided us with a clear pathway for safeguarding, and her materials have been very easy to use for further internal training. She supported colleagues to envision safeguarding across a range of professional and educational contexts, including in relation to safeguarding in the complex area of domestic and relational abuse and violence. Dawn’s training has given us confidence to respond appropriately to safeguarding issues.”
Marije Davidson
Deputy Safeguarding Officer, York St John University
“The Schoen Clinic York used Dawn for safeguarding level 3 train the trainer and also safeguarding level 4. Dawn worked with our organisations specification in ensuing that the training met the requirement of our NHS contract and CQC requirements in line with the NHS intercollegiate document. The training was interactive, informative and engaging. The training which was delivered on zoom and was well designed and delivered . Dawns subject knowledge was comprehensive and she went the extra mile to ensure that when we asked question that were outside the training curriculum , for example us asking about safeguarding law in Scotland Dawn obliged by finding out the information for us.
We would not hesitate in using Dawn again. She is an excellent trainer and a pleasure to work with.”
Joanne Addis
Social Worker / Safeguarding Lead
“Dawn is a brilliant trainer. She was knowledgeable and brought real life experience to an otherwise complicated and difficult subject. She has a way of making things really simple to understand and of honing in on the critical things. Our staff really enjoyed the training and left feeling much more confident about how to deal with safeguarding issues”.
Dave King,
CEO, Brighter Horizons.