Statutory & Mandatory Training: Safeguarding Children

Safeguarding Children is aimed at workers who are likely to meet children at risk of abuse. This could be in a residential or school setting or in the children’s homes.

This course can be undertaken either by professionals or volunteers who work with vulnerable children.

Safeguarding children is everyone’s responsibility. This course will help you identify the signs of neglect and abuse a child in your care may suffer, how to identify the signs of neglect, and how to respond and act if you suspect a child of being abused or neglected.

Training outcomes

• Know about child protection issues, including definitions, indicators, legislation, guidance and processes.
• Understand the importance of children’s rights as reflected in legislation and key statutory and non-statutory guidance.
• Understand what is meant by child development in the context of safeguarding.
• Understand the scale of abuse and the types and potential signs of child maltreatment within the context of normal child development.
• Know how abuse and neglect can impact on children’s development and how to recognise this.
• Have a greater awareness of the potential risk factors which may increase the likelihood of abuse in children’s lives.
• Have a greater understanding of the additional vulnerabilities of looked-after children as a result of their experiences of abuse in childhood, and know best how to support them and meet their needs (or to achieve stability and recover from abuse).

Accreditation
This course is accredited by CPD. The certificate, awarded upon successful completion, can be used to log your hours against.

Duration

This course usually takes between 1-2 hours to complete, depending on the speed of learning. Learners do not have to complete all the training in one session as progress is recorded throughout and the training can be paused and resumed in our learning management system at any time.

Target audience
This course is aimed at anyone who works with vulnerable children such as care workers, befrienders, social workers, etc.

Entry requirements
There are no entry requirements for this course.

Test and certificate
Each end of course test consists of 15 multiple choice questions. Learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark, and, if necessary, may attempt the test six times at no extra cost.

If learners do not achieve the 75% pass mark, further attempts may be given by contacting our support team.

Learners will be able to download a digital certificate on completion of each course. This can be printed, and we suggest you keep it for your records.