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🛡️ How to Write a Safeguarding Method Statement for Social Care
🔍 What Is a Safeguarding Method Statement?
A safeguarding method statement outlines how your organisation ensures the protection of vulnerable people in its care. In social care tenders, commissioners expect clear, evidence-based responses explaining how you meet safeguarding requirements, mitigate risks, and create a culture of vigilance and accountability.
Unlike a policy, a method statement explains how you put safeguarding into practice daily.
📝 What Should a Safeguarding Method Statement Include?
A strong safeguarding method statement should cover:
- Commitment to Safeguarding: Affirm your alignment with the Care Act 2014, CQC expectations, and local partnerships.
- Safer Recruitment: Outline your DBS checks, references, and safeguarding training.
- Staff Training: Show how staff are trained, refreshed, and competency is monitored.
- Reporting & Escalation: Clarify how concerns are reported internally and escalated externally.
- Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP): Highlight person-centred approaches and the six safeguarding principles.
- Governance & Oversight: Describe how audits, reporting, and supervision maintain safeguarding standards.
💡 Top Tips for Writing a Strong Method Statement
- Be specific with examples — avoid generic statements.
- Reference CQC and legislation.
- Keep it concise and aligned with the tender question.
- Mirror key language from the tender specification.
🛍️ Ready-to-Use Safeguarding Method Statements
If you’re short on time, Impact Guru offers professionally written, fully editable safeguarding method statements aligned with CQC and tender expectations.
- 250 words – for concise responses
- 500 words – for standard tenders
- 750 words – for detailed submissions
Explore our 750-word Safeguarding Method Statement for Domiciliary Care to strengthen your next bid.
🔑 Final Thought
A clear safeguarding method statement shows commissioners your service embeds safeguarding as part of a person-centred, proactive culture of care.
Written by Mike Harrison, Founder of Impact Guru Ltd — specialists in bid writing and strategy for social care providers.
Visit impact-guru.co.uk to browse downloadable strategies, method statements, or get in touch about tender support.