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Course contents
This training course is broken down into 5 sections
- 1 Safeguarding Responsibilities
- 2 Recognising Abuse in Children
- 3 Responding to Abuse
- 4 Recording Observations
- 5 Reporting Concerns
About this course
Safeguarding children means protecting them from abuse and keeping them safe from harm. It means promoting their health and welfare, helping them to grow up in a safe and supportive environment. This IIRSM approved course covers both level 1 and level 2.
As many as 1 in 3 children sexually abused by an adult never tells anyone, so it’s absolutely crucial that, if you even occasionally work with children, you’re aware of the 4 R’s of child protection – Recognise, Respond, Report, and Record. This Safeguarding Children course will help you identify and appropriately respond to the warning signs of child abuse, teaching you the importance of speaking up and acting quickly.
Safeguarding in Education settings (Also see our safer recruitment in education training) is crucial but this training is also relevant to Care, and Leisure sectors.
This Safeguarding Children Training covers both levels 1 & 2.
You can access our free worksheet that has been designed to accompany our online Safeguarding Children Training course. In each section, there is a box for you to
tick when you have watched the relevant slide in our course. You can also take notes that will help you during your practical assessment at work.
You may also be interested in our other course, Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults. Alternatively, why not browse our full selection of Safeguarding courses?
The importance of Safeguarding Children Training
It’s important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.
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Safeguarding Children Training certificate
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Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Safeguarding Children Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questions guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your Safeguarding Children Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.
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Important Safeguarding Children Training
In depth information which really gave me an excellent insight into this subject. I am very familiar with Adult Safeguarding but less so with Safeguarding Children - I've learnt a lot, but there is a huge volume of information to take in on this course and I feel it was a bit rushed.
This Safeguarding course is Superb.
This Safeguarding course is an eye opener for me. It has thought me how to protect every child that is put under my care. It has given me the confidence to go all out to protect all the children under my care in the right way.
Excellent experience
Overall are interesting & helped me to be more aware. It’s just the one thing with some difficult long words that I had not seen.
well structured and interesting
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Easy to follow
Good to have video content.
okay
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So informative
I liked the way it was given
Far too long.
This user gave this course a rating of 3/5 stars
Why is this training important?
Compliance
It's important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.
What is The Children's and Young Persons Act 2008?
The primary purpose of the Children's and Young Persons Act 2008 was to give boundaries and help for local authorities and/or other entities to better regulate official intervention in the interests of children.
The United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child has 54 articles, each listing a different right that children have, and different responsibilities that the Government, and others, have to make sure that children have these rights. One of these rights is Protection from violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect and maltreatment: The Government must make sure children are protected from any type of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse or exploitation, while they are living with their parents or in the care of anyone else.
The Equality Act 2010 ensures equal treatment of everyone regardless of their protected characteristics, which includes age.
HM Government's Working Together to Safeguard Children 2015 is a guide to inter-agency working document to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. It stipulates the need for policies and procedures to this effect:
Explore more on legislationTraining [is necessary] for persons who work with children or in services affecting the safety and welfare of children [...] Training should cover how to identify and respond early to the needs of all vulnerable children
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