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Safeguarding in Childrens Workforce

This Safeguarding in Children's Workforce online course is suitable for anyone who works with children, it is designed to introduce the topic, the relevant skills, the latest legislation, multi-agency working, how to recognise and deal with abuse, common core skills and knowledge and much more. The online training includes a CPD approved certificate on completion.

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Course Overview

Format

Intermediate
4-5 Study Hours
Online Study
Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

2 CPD Points
CPD Certified

Course description

This course introduces safeguarding, its importance when working with children and the many associated skills and knowledge required.

Anyone working with children needs to ensure they have an appropriate level of safeguarding training in order to satisfy their safeguarding responsibilities.

This wide-ranging course is designed for all working with children. It introduces safeguarding and the relevant skills, knowledge and legislation, multi-agency working, how to recognise and deal with abuse, and many common core skills and knowledge. It includes:

An overview of safeguarding and why it is important
The latest legislation and guidance
Types of abuse how to recognise the signs and symptoms of abuse and reduce its incidence
How to deal with suspected and disclosed abuse; what to do if you suspect abuse
Common core skills and knowledge, and how they fit in with your working role
Anti-discriminatory practice and equality, diversity and inclusion
Child-centred practice, person-centred planning
Disabilities, developmental disabilities, models of medical and social disabilities
Integration and inclusion of children with disabilities
Working with families
The six key areas of skills and knowledge for the children’s workforce
Communication skills
Information sharing, record-keeping and recording
Professional relationships and working in partnership
Development of children and young people, play in development
Continuing Professional Development

Case studies, immersive real-world scenarios and challenges help professionals apply knowledge into everyday life. This course is for everyone working with children, which may also include administrators and reception staff, police and probationary workers.

You will learn

Explain the profound impact some well-known cases of child abuse and neglect have had on legislation

Explain the importance of multi-agency cooperation

Define safeguarding in respect to children and young people

Describe what you need to do if a child makes a disclosure or if you suspect abuse

Explain what whistleblowing is, what it is not and why it is important

List the ways you can reduce the risk of abuse

List the signs and symptoms of the different types of abuse

Explain what is meant by common core skills and knowledge

Outline the six core common skills and knowledge required to work with children and young people

Compare and identify different views, types and models of disabilities

Identify barriers experienced by children and young people with disabilities and their families and discuss what equality, diversity and inclusion means for them

Explain how to safeguard children with disabilities

Who is it for?

Roles including:

Teachers

Teaching assistants

Nursery workers

Childminders

Social Workers

Care Workers

Legislation

Legislation covered in this course includes:

Health and Safety Act 1974
Children Act 1989
Human Rights Act 1998
Education Act 2002
Children Act 2004

How the online courses work

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Buy the course

When buying one of our courses, you will need to enter a valid email address which will be used to create your account with our Learning Management System – Enable – where you will take the training. We will also send your purchase receipt to this email address, and any additional courses purchased in future using the same email address will be added to your system account.
Once you have purchased a course, you will be able to send this course to other people using your system account with Enable by entering the new learner’s email address so that they may access the training and set up their own system account with our Learning Management System.
If you are not 100% satisfied with your course then we offer a 30-day, no hassle money-back guarantee. To request a refund, you should email our learner support team with your receipt stating why you would like to be reimbursed. You, or your learners, must not have completed the training in order to make a valid refund claim. Any claim made after the training has been completed will be invalidated.
Take the course

This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.
The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.
Your Certificate

Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College and will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable.
If you have bought the posted certificate option (available on select courses), a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out at the beginning of the following working week.