diff --git a/src/Forms/FormField.php b/src/Forms/FormField.php
index 00eef25510c..9f4ec88531a 100644
--- a/src/Forms/FormField.php
+++ b/src/Forms/FormField.php
@@ -443,14 +443,35 @@ public function getInputType()
         return $this->inputType;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Returns the internal value of the field
+     *
+     * @return mixed
+     */
+    public function getValue()
+    {
+        return $this->value;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the value of the field which may be modified for display purposes
+     * for instance to add localisation or formatting.
+     */
+    public function getFormattedValue(): mixed
+    {
+        return $this->Value();
+    }
+
     /**
      * Returns the field value.
      *
      * @see FormField::setSubmittedValue()
      * @return mixed
+     * @deprecated 5.4.0 Use getFormattedValue() or getValue() instead
      */
     public function Value()
     {
+        Deprecation::notice('5.4.0', 'Use getFormattedValue() or getValue() instead');
         return $this->value;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/Forms/TextareaField.php b/src/Forms/TextareaField.php
index 0dd025a7f74..f6a55210cf6 100644
--- a/src/Forms/TextareaField.php
+++ b/src/Forms/TextareaField.php
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 namespace SilverStripe\Forms;
 
+use SilverStripe\Dev\Deprecation;
+
 /**
  * TextareaField creates a multi-line text field,
  * allowing more data to be entered than a standard
@@ -202,13 +204,23 @@ public function getSchemaValidation()
         return $rules;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Return value with all values encoded in html entities
+     */
+    public function getFormattedValueEntities(): string
+    {
+        return htmlentities($this->Value() ?? '', ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
+    }
+
     /**
      * Return value with all values encoded in html entities
      *
      * @return string Raw HTML
+     * @deprecated 5.4.0 Use getFormattedValueEntities() instead
      */
     public function ValueEntities()
     {
-        return htmlentities($this->Value() ?? '', ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
+        Deprecation::noticeWithNoReplacment('5.4.0', 'Use getFormattedValueEntities() instead');
+        return $this->getFormattedValueEntities();
     }
 }